The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation’s capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health.

The program enables up to 12 outstanding individuals who have completed their doctoral training to engage in an intensive two-year program at one of six nationally prominent universities.

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Sarah Burgard

Sarah Burgard’s work focuses on the way systems of stratification and inequality impact the health of people and populations. In her graduate work in sociology at UCLA, she studied educational and occupational attainment during periods of change in race-related legislation in the U.S. and South Africa and the effects of these policies on racial disparities in health.Read more »

 

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Intersections between Population Health and Primary Care
April 19, 2012 - Video of Intersections between Population Health and Primary Care plenary from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program with moderator Harvey Fineberg (Institute of Medicine), Robert Kaplan (NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research), Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University), Marla Salmon (University of Washington) and A. Eugene Washington (University of California, Los Angeles).Read more »
Jonathan Samet (National Advisory Committee) Medical Express
May 15, 2012 - University of Southern California (USC) researchers and colleagues have found biological evidence that even a short-term reduction in air pollution exposure improves one's cardiovascular health.Read more »
Malo Hutson (Cohort 4) Richmond Confidential
May 10, 2012 - North Richmond is a unique Bay Area community poised for growth and investment in the coming years.Read more »
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