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With disability rights under attack, movement leaders are meeting the moment by building better systems rooted in equity, inclusion, and justice for all.
To transform health in our lifetime, RWJF funds research and initiatives focused on achieving health equity. Review our active and upcoming funding opportunities to see where you can play a role in ...
National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems Equity and overall wellbeing are not generally part of how we talk about health, and are not emphasized in our data collection. This has to ...
COVID-19 has unleashed a dual threat to health equity in the United States: a pandemic that has sickened millions and killed tens of thousands and counting, and an economic downturn that has resulted ...
The Marketplace Pulse series provides expert insights on timely policy topics related to the health insurance marketplaces. The series, authored by RWJF Senior Policy Adviser Katherine Hempstead, ...
The second brief in the series, Increasing Access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Advance Health Equity, focuses on SNAP, the nation’s largest food assistance program which ...
Between 2025 and 2034, providers would lose $1 trillion. Hospitals alone would face a $306 revenue hit. The analysis shows the spending bill would also increase uncompensated care costs—services ...
Princeton, N.J. —The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the nine communities chosen to receive the 2023 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The Prize celebrates communities across the country ...
Home is where the heart is, but it’s also where our health is. The quality and stability of our homes shape our health, our communities, and our society. When we live in safe, quality homes that are: ...
The Issue Expanded Medicaid eligibility covers adults who earn approximately $21,000 per year (138% of the federal poverty level) in the 41 states that adopted the expansion. As part of the agreement ...
About the Survey—The Impact of Coronavirus NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a five-part polling series between July and August 2020 ...