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We value community wisdom and institutional knowledge, and our commitment to continuous learning allows us to listen and connect insights to chart a course to health equity—faster and together. Explore news, research, policy updates and thought leadership from experts within and outside RWJF, below.

Trending Topics

The landscape affecting the barriers to health equity is constantly shifting. Stay up to date as RWJF experts share their perspectives on timely news affecting our collective ability to get to a future where health equity is a reality.

Strengthening Medicaid should remain a national imperative

Perspective from Vice President of Policy Avenel Joseph
Read the op-ed in Route Fifty

The Promise and Peril of Being Transgender in America

Perspective from RWJF Executive Vice President Julie Morita and Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, National Center for Transgender Equality
Read their op-ed in U.S. News

Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

Perspective from Katherine Hempstead, Senior Policy Adviser
Read her op-ed in The Hill

Expert Insights

Sharing solutions and stories from communities across America, along with critical perspectives and the best available data and evidence that can inform progress toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

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Expert Insights & Thought Leadership

Our blog features perspectives from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation staff and guest authors, grantees, and partners who are working to achieve health equity—faster and together.

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Using Impact Investments to Boost Economic Growth in Latino Communities

Those with expertise, lived experience, and cultural and social understanding can drive progress that helps more Latino communities thrive.

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What if Our Systems Actually Served ALL of Us

Together, we can rebuild systems so they work for us all, leading to a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.

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Health Disparities Policy and Law Structural Racism
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Our Research

We work to expand our nation's evidence base on what can help us achieve health equity faster and together. We recognize that equitable data collection and analysis is necessary to dismantle barriers to health equity.

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Building Local Alignment

The goal of this initiative is to increase collaboration among public health, healthcare, and social service organizations working to improve community health.

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Ideas for an Equitable Future

We work with scientists, anthropologists, engineers, artists, and other creative thinkers across the nation to explore and accelerate cutting-edge ideas that could pave the way toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

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Health Science Knowledge System

Our vision is bold: a system rooted in equity and justice that addresses the wide-ranging barriers to health; a system where knowledge is co-created with communities, and diverse ways of knowing are embraced and valued.

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Global Learning
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Advocacy & Policy

We are committed to advancing the policies, practices, and systems changes that can dismantle structural barriers to wellbeing, especially racism. We take the long view and focus on efforts that have a lasting impact on systemic, generational change.

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Household Spending on Premiums Would Surge if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire

Spending on healthcare premiums will skyrocket for millions of people if Congress allows the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits to expire.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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State Strategies to Compensate Beneficiary Advisory Council Members

This issue brief offers considerations for determining how to fairly compensate BAC members for their time without adversely affecting their eligibility for Medicaid.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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Enhanced PTCs Help Older Adults and Those in High-Premium States Afford Coverage

Enhanced premium tax credits help older adults and those in high-premium states afford coverage.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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