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.

Each year the program enables up to 18 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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Dominick L. Frosch

Clinical psychologist Dominick L. Frosch, Ph.D., had just earned his doctoral degree from the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University (a joint program). He wanted to move beyond the small scale, experimental confines of psychology to study health communication broadly. Read more »
America's Health Checkup
What is the measure of a country's health? How do you take the temperature of a population that sprawls across nine time zones, 50 states and a global rainbow of cultures and communities? One way is by taking a close look at yourself. Read More
The Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Obesity in a Population-Based Multiracial and Multiethnic Adult Sample (Alumnus Haslyn Hunte)
Obesity is a major risk factor for chronic health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, some forms of cancer, and osteoarthritis.3 Although it is widely accepted that high-fat diets and physical inactivity are preventable risk factors,4 obesity continues to increase.Read More
A Penn researcher makes a film studying the link between cancer and pollution.
In No Family History, a new documentary feature written and directed by University of Pennsylvania research fellow Dr. Sabrina McCormickRead More
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