Presentations by Staff and Grantees at National Meetings & Conferences The Systems for Action National Program Office and grantees with accepted abstracts often attend: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Colorado Public Health Association Public Health in the Rockies AcademyHealth...

Maxwell, Christopher D., et al. “Coordinated Community Response to Prevent Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation: Randomized Control Trial.” Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol. 19, no. 4, Dec. 2023, pp. 1067–83. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09521-1. Detail...

Palimaru, Alina I., et al. “A Qualitative Evaluation of Housing for Health in Los Angeles County.” Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, vol. 31, no. 2, July 2022, pp. 152–62. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, https://doi.org/10.1080/10530789.2021.1908486. Details Resource: Article Related: Grantee...

Orr, Jason M., et al. “Contemporary Public Health Finance: Varied Definitions, Patterns, and Implications.” Annual Review of Public Health, vol. 45, no. 1, May 2024, pp. 359–74. PubMed, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-013023-111124. Details Resource: Article Related: Nalsys

Li, Fei. “COVID-19 and the Activity-Travel Behavior of Low-Income, Chronically Ill Individuals in Atlanta, Georgia.” Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, vol. 22, Nov. 2023, p. 100951. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100951. Details Resource: Article Related...

Sun, Jing, et al. “The Building Wealth and Health Network: Methods and Baseline Characteristics from a Randomized Controlled Trial for Families with Young Children Participating in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).” BMC Public Health, vol. 16, no. 1, July 2016, p. 583, https://doi.org...

Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that studies strategies for aligning medical, social, and public health systems in ways that improve health and health equity. The National Program Office is based at the Colorado School of Public...

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, evaluates the feasibility of the Youth Wellness Hub as a hyper-local community governance model for integrating delivery and financing systems for youth behavioral health and wellness services. The Youth Wellness Hub combines three social policy tools that are separately promising or well-supported in the research literature: community governance; public health education campaigns; and service network coordination through fiscal blending.

Declines in academic performance often precede declines in health and health behaviors, particularly among minority youth living in economically distressed communities. The social and economic burdens imposed on communities with high rates of mental illness could be alleviated if patients were...