The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars

Change Agents In Medicine For More Than 40 Years

Photo: Harold Shapiro

MissionDevelop physician leaders to improve U.S. health and

healthcare while preserving a commitment to service &

patients.

Photo: Harold ShapiroLeonard Lesser (UCLA CSP 09-12) (center) and teens at the Youth, Schools, Community - Partnership in Action

Diversity Commitment

The Program:

•embraces racial, ethnic, gender and disciplinary diversity

•encourages candidates with diverse backgrounds to apply

•provides all qualified candidates an equal opportunity to compete for a Clinical Scholar position

Training Sites & National Program OfficeTraining Sites• University of Pennsylvania• University of California, Los Angeles• University of Michigan• Yale University

National Program Office:• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

About the Program• Founded in 1969 and adopted by RWJF in 1972• Oldest RWJF program• An RWJF Human Capital Scholars & Fellows program• Long-standing collaboration with US Department of Veterans

Affairs (VA)– RWJF and the VA fund Scholar stipends & health insurance– RWJF supports research related expenses – VA provides in-kind faculty, clinical and research resources

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation1936 Founded as the Johnson New Brunswick Foundation by Robert Wood Johnson

Depression & WWII Dormant with $475 in bank

1948 2000 shares of J & J stock

1952 Name change to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - health & health care, scholarship support, community service in NJ became focus

1963 Focus on hospital management and nursing care

1968 Robert Wood Johnson II dies - Foundation has $53 million

$300 million bequeathed

1971 Gus Leinhard becomes Chair of Board

Foundation goes National in December

Legal requirement to spend $45 million within the year

1972 Value of stock rises to $1 billion

Board appoints Dr. David Rogers president (Dean at Hopkins)

Aides: Bob Blendon (Hopkins), Terry Keenan (Ford Foundation), Margaret Mahoney (Carnegie Corporation)

We have studied previous foundation triumphs and failures.

We have held conferences with a number of the best minds working on broad problems in health. We have had discussions with our colleagues in medicine and other health professions, and with the staffs of many of the decision-makers in government who are working to develop effective legislation in health…And we’ve contemplated—a rare privilege in our world.

1972 Annual Report