Our program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributes to setting Systems for Action program priorities. She also reviews and recommends applications for funding.

Impact studies examine the impact of a novel system alignment strategy on relevant measures of health and wellbeing for affected populations. These studies build on pilot studies confirming the feasibility and acceptability of the systems alignment strategy and use rigorous research methods to...

Restorative Community Solutions (RCS), works to restore, empower and heal historically divested communities in the San Francisco Bay Area through individual, group, and community coaching. The Equity Capacity Building Grant will contribute to their systems alignment challenge focused on building a...

Overview The panel assembled for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science 2018 Conference presented research findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action research program. About Social, economic, and environmental conditions strongly influence population...

About | Resources & Results | Survey Instrument | FAQs Since 1998, the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems* or NALSYS has followed a nationally representative cohort of U.S. communities to measure the implementation and impact of multi-sector population health improvement...

Disparities in health delivery continue to act as barriers to equitable outcomes in health. Public health system efforts connect local health systems to their network and community members. Public health system capital may play a role in improving community health; however, there may be inequities...

Overview This study considers the association of local public health agency performance with the rural-urban characteristic of the agencies’ jurisdictions. Specifically, the association of county-level gaps in public health performance with differences in the rural-urban characteristic of...