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We need your talent, passion, and perspective to enrich our work. RWJF is currently recruiting for an executive vice president. This role serves in a leadership position driving the Foundation’s broader transformation to deepen a focus on intersectional racial equity, purpose, and brand. You’ll work closely with other senior staff, trustees, and external partners and be involved in strategic planning, program development, and policy advocacy. Learn more about joining the team and apply today. https://rwjf.ws/aQm4si

Join me for RWJF's webinar on Monday, 10/28, about the judicial landscape surrounding race-conscious strategies in medicine and public health. I’ll be talking with experts in the field, including Adria Bonillas from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH from American Medical Association, and Sabrina Adler from ChangeLab Solutions. Together we’ll: ⚖️Highlight key court cases involving challenges to racial equity efforts 🤔Understand the legal, policy, and narrative issues at play 👩🏾Discuss strategies for how health leaders can respond to challenges and advance racial and health equity Register to join us: https://bit.ly/3Yg3ouV

Philanthropy CAN make meaningful headway in solving tangled titles, which disproportionately impacts households with low incomes and households of color, so homeowners can keep their homes and use it to build intergenerational wealth and health. Tangled titles, or “heirs’ property,” is a complex legal problem stemming from property owners passing down their homes or land to multiple heirs without formally naming a new owner in their will. This places new owners at risk of losing their property and its benefits: homeownership can provide economic stability, which has a positive influence on health and wellbeing.  At RWJF, we’re exploring ways funders can help. In a new article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, I dive into three key areas where philanthropy can intervene to drive effective change and help families impacted by tangled titles.  Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e-6DMYPD

 The EPA’s decision to require removal of lead pipes and ensure clean drinking water nationwide is a huge win! Let's talk about why this is so important for health equity, and what happens next ⤵️

Join us on October 30 for a conversation on the importance of centering disability in the creation of equitable health policies! Rich Besser, President of the RWJF, and Rebecca Cokley, Disability Rights Program Officer of Ford Foundation, will join Teresa Nguyen of the Community Living Equity Center at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. Rich, Rebecca, and Teresa will discuss the journey that the RWJF and the Ford Foundation have taken towards more equitable grant making, lessons learned, and a way forward. Conversation at 5:30pm with reception to follow. Register here: https://lnkd.in/egAf42WC

To expand the conversations on structural racism and health, we need to lead with values and we need to keep it simple. Using jargon or fuzzy language doesn’t bring people closer together to solve issues of equity. We need to use plain language. As M. Allyn Brooks-LaSure shared at BMe’s Next Narrative Summit last month, communications professionals should always strive to be clear, cohesive, and consequential. Tell us how you've used plain language in your work. What has helped you and your organization communicate more directly and clearly?

Research shapes the policies, practices, and norms impacting our health and wellbeing. What can be done to make sure these findings are produced, collected, shared, and used to benefit communities and keep health equity at the center?     Our vision is to reorient our systems so they not only value academic and biomedical science, but also cultural and community knowledge as valid sources for decision making.    In the “Unscripted: Candid Conversations about the Future of Research” series from @RWJF, six visionary thinkers will take the mic for live, one-on-one discussions on how they are challenging the research status quo to advance health equity. Happening daily throughout the week of October 21, these leaders will discuss what the future of research might look like and what it will take to get there:    🟣Lil Milagro Henriquez, PhD (ABD), MA, of the Mycelium Youth Network   🟣Erica Walker, MSc, ScD, of Community Noise Lab at Brown University School of Public Health  🟣Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University  🟣Brian Nosek, PhD, of the Center for Open Science    🟣Keolu Fox, Ph.D., PhD, of the Indigenous Futures Lab at the University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management 🟣Sarah Richarson, PhD, of GenderSci Lab at Harvard University    There should always be space for open and honest conversations about how research can better serve everyone. No matter what sector you work in, these conversations could spark ideas for how you too can be a part of efforts to create a healthier future.    Register here to tune in: https://rwjf.ws/j6Fis4  

There is no denying that the National School Lunch Program is a vital resource for millions of families, helping to keep kids fed at school so they can focus on learning and feel their best. We also know that the budgets at many school lunch programs across the country are stretched too thin, impacting students and staff alike. But what if schools were able to center ‘care’ in their nutrition programs? I’m so excited to share that I’ll be sitting down with two experts on school nutrition policy — Jessica Terrell, producer and host of the “Left Over” podcast, and Jennifer Gaddis, author of “The Labor of Lunch” — for a live discussion on “Care: The Secret Ingredient in School Meals” on October 9 at 2:30 pm ET. We’ll explore school labor, school nutrition program budgets, solutions we can learn from other countries, and much more. You can register for the event below. I hope you’ll join us!

What should the future of research look like and what will it take to get there? Six visionary thinkers take the mic and pair up one-on-one to challenge us to rethink the way society produces, collects, shares, and uses knowledge about health. It's Unscripted and we hope you register to attend.