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How The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Has Influenced Health Policy – And My Own Life – For Five Decades

By Shannan Lynes | March 22, 2024 | Comments Off on How The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Has Influenced Health Policy – And My Own Life – For Five Decades

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program offers mid-career professionals the opportunity to participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health equity, health care, and health policy.

In this special episode, producer Anna Stoecklein is joined by Reggie Tucker-Seeley, one of the graduates from the program

From Bedside to Beltway: A Nurse’s Journey into Health Care Policy

By Shannan Lynes | February 22, 2024 | Comments Off on From Bedside to Beltway: A Nurse’s Journey into Health Care Policy

Nurse and professor Dr. Brenda Baker says nurses should have a “bigger footprint” in the health policy arena—the RWJF Health Policy Fellows program helped her see how big a difference she could make By Jamie Durana Four-year-old Brenda Baker stood on her tiptoes and peered through the window into the hospital nursery. Baker’s mother was…

Placements of the 2023-2024 RWJF Health Policy Fellows Announced

By Shannan Lynes | January 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Placements of the 2023-2024 RWJF Health Policy Fellows Announced

The National Program Office is pleased to announce the placements of the 2023-2024 RWJF Health Policy Fellows!

Thinking Outside the Box: How the RWJF Fellowship Helped Army Reserve General and Health Policy Professor Dr. Peggy Wilmoth Transform Her Career

By Shannan Lynes | October 19, 2023 | Comments Off on Thinking Outside the Box: How the RWJF Fellowship Helped Army Reserve General and Health Policy Professor Dr. Peggy Wilmoth Transform Her Career

Before joining the program, Wilmoth navigated dual careers as a professor and a Brigadier General in the Army Reserve. She also wanted hands-on experience in the policy world that would be helpful in both careers. This led her to apply for the RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program, where she landed a placement in the office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, during the time when the Affordable Care Act was passed. Read on to find out about Wilmoth’s takeaways from the program and why she calls the fellowship “a privilege” and “transformational.”

Bridging Health Policy and Economics: How the RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program Helped Carrie Colla Make an Impact

By Shannan Lynes | July 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Bridging Health Policy and Economics: How the RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program Helped Carrie Colla Make an Impact

By Marisa Coulton Health economist Carrie Colla had been teaching at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice for seven years when she decided it was time for a change. She loved the work but wanted to make sure her research was getting into the hands of policymakers. “In the beginning of your…