Where you live has major impacts on your health. Since 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has backed a National League of Cities initiative helping mayors consider urban problems through a health and wellness lens.
Read MoreThree health foundations are backing a new effort to promote public health leadership, strengthen our weakened systems, and build stronger connections in communities.
Read MoreWoody and Gayle Hunt have deep ties in El Paso and the surrounding region. Through their family foundation, they’re boosting education in public health, one of many under-resourced healthcare priorities in the area.
Read MoreThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a new initiative to tackle healing from the ground up, backing state- and community-based groups to build power in support of a more equitable health care system.
Read MoreWith federal action stalled on climate change, Robert Wood Johnson is among a growing number of funders looking to address this issue at the local level, supporting work that focuses on the nexus between health and climate.
Read MoreFoundations and nonprofits are becoming more interested in addressing trauma among children and adolescents, as research points to its many negative effects on life outcomes. America’s Promise Alliance is one organization taking on this issue, tapping a $6 million grant.
Read MoreWhen was the last time a new foundation chief arrived with 57,000 Twitter followers? Meet Richard Besser, who's coming to Robert Wood Johnson from ABC News and has serious star potential.
Read MoreIt's hard to think of a top foundation head who's been more successful in recent decades than Lavizzo-Mourey. As she departs her post, here's a deep dive into what she did and how she did it.
Read MoreIf you want an example of how philanthropy, with relatively tiny resources, can influence a sprawling $3 trillion healthcare system, look at the growing push to empower patients to access key medical records.
Read MoreOver recent decades, neighborhood-level crime data has dramatically improved law enforcement. Now, a public-private partnership is putting new hyper-local health data in the hands of public officials.
Read MoreThe fight to improve food systems is getting a boost from Robert Wood Johnson, with the creation of the new Center for Healthy Food Access. We look at the logic and the history of this effort.
Read MoreGrant dollars are backing different strategies to curb skyrocketing deaths from drug overdoses. But here's an angle in the opioid fight we haven't seen before: supporting poetry.
Read MoreFoundations worried about public health have long been fighting fast food restaurants. One line of attack is targeting Happy Meals and the like.
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