Chuang E, Bunger A, Smith R, Girth A, Phillips R, Miech E, Lancaster K, Martin J, Gadel F, Himmeger M, McClellan J, Millisor J, Willauer T, Powell B, Dellor E, Aarons G. (2024). Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use...

The Research-in-Progress Webinar Series, also known as ResProg, enables S4A investigators whose awards are in-process or completed to share their work and disseminate findings rapidly, and to identify others with related research interests. Each webinar includes: progress on the research project and...

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, investigates whether a novel type of social bond can pool resources across multiple competing health plans and create stable, long-term financing for interventions that address social determinants...

Vu TT, Dario JP, Mateu-Gelabert P, Levine D, Punter MA, Borrell LN, Ngo VK. Substance Use Patterns and Their Association with Depression and Social Factors During COVID-19 Among Harlem Residents in New York City. J Community Health. 2023 Dec;48(6):937-944. doi: 10.1007/s10900-023-01253-1. Epub 2023...

The Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH) team manages a nationwide project launched in November 2022 to help medical, social service, and public health providers in low-income and Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities dismantle inequities and improve health and well-being for all. SAIH is a...

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.

This study will pilot test a school-embedded Point-of-Service (POS) coordination system designed to align medical care, public health, and social service systems for children and families in the historically Black Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The intervention seeks to dismantle systemic racism that manifests as fragmented systems with administrative burdens that routinely delay or deny care for Black families.