Eyes on 2020

Jan 06, 2020

Wondering what to expect on the health policy front in 2020? We were, too, so we reached out to someone in the know. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

RWJF Health Policy Fellow Creating Pipeline of Health Policy Leaders

Nov 15, 2019

Sharron Crowder, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow and clinical associate professor at Indiana University School of Nursing, taught a health policy course for graduate nursing students in 2013 at the request of her dean, little realizing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurse Innovator Honored as 1 of 5 Recipients of 24th Heinz Awards

Sep 17, 2019

Innovative thinking, persistence, courage, and compassion are among the reasons that five Americans have earned this year’s Heinz Awards, including nurse researcher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN. Szanton, an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

An RWJF Clinical Nurse Scholar Tackles Youth Suicide

Jun 26, 2019

Twenty youths attempted suicide the first month that Kelly McGrady, RN, started as an at-risk mentor for the school district of New Town, North Dakota. more

RWJF Nurse Leader Contributes to Fighting Opioid Epidemic

Mar 04, 2019

In a state hit hard by the opioid epidemic, West Virginia’s Gov. Jim Justice announced a pilot program in two counties that are among those suffering more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: West Virginia

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Nurse Practitioner and RWJF Culture of Health Leader Addresses Homelessness

Feb 28, 2019

Courtney Pladsen, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, a nurse practitioner and a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

National

RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leader Kathi Elliott Fosters Resilience in Black Girls

Feb 22, 2019

Black girls in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are 11 times more likely to be referred to juvenile justice court than white girls—a figure that Kathi Elliott, DNP, MSW, CRNP, is determined to change. Elliott is an RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leader (IRL) and the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National Pennsylvania