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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José A. Pagán

Economist José A. Pagán, Ph.D., an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas-Pan American, believes the key to covering the uninsured is raising awareness that the lack of health insurance affects everyone. Read more »
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Laura Gottlieb (Cohort 6) San Francisco Chronical
August 22, 2010 - Funding healthy society helps cure health careRead more »
Samir Soneji (Cohort 6) EndoNurse - The Authority for the Continuing Advancement of Endoscopic Nursing
August 20, 2010 - Black patients die from colorectal cancer at much higher rates than whites do and new research points to unequal healthcare as the cause.Read more »
Briana Mezuk (Cohort 5) Suburban Chicago's Daily Herald
August 18, 2010 - Late-life depression is treatable, however. Psychotherapy and antidepressants have been shown to improve mood in people with depressive disorders.Read More
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