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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Rachel Tolbert Kimbro

Family sociologist Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D., had just earned her doctorate from Princeton University. She wanted to study the influence of the mother’s relationship with the father on prenatal health behaviors, but needed more training in population health. Read more »
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Natasha Dow Schüll (Cohort 1) The Economist
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James Knickman (National Advisory Committee) Staten Island New York 1.com
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Jennie Brand (Cohort 2) StarTribune.com
July 20, 2010 - A deep recession does more than economic damage. When short-term unemployment turns into long-term unemployment, as it has in this recession to a level unseen since the 1930’s, rates of depression (the psychiatric kind) increase, anxiety rises and behavior changes.Read more »
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