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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today named the 2024-2025 class of RWJF Health Policy Fellows. Beginning in September, seven health professionals will spend a year in Washington, D.C., working on health-related legislative and regulatory issues with members of Congress and the executive branch. The fellows were chosen…
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Cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Hassan Tetteh became became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow in 2012, an experience that fundamentally altered his perspective on life, politics, and medicine, he said. His path to the fellowship was far from linear, however. His journey began at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, where he majored in biochemistry. He planned to be a doctor. But another field had captured his attention: policy.
Hear from Dr. Joseph Sakran on how the RWJF Health Policy Fellows program allowed him to build relationships and understand what’s happening where policy meets practice in this feature story.
He reflects on his time in the RWJF Health Policy Fellows program, focusing on the potential for clinicians to impact populations by getting involved with policy.
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