Since 1993, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has recognized leaders who work in their neighborhoods and communities to address some of the nation's most intractable health care problems.  With courage, creativity, and commitment, they overcome incredible odds to pursue strategies that improve the health and quality of life for men, women, and children in communities across the United States. 
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RWJF Community Health Leaders National Program Office Relocates to Houston, TX

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders (CHL) National Program Office (NPO) is pleased to announce the new location of its offices at the Harris Foundation in Houston, TX. The Community Health Leaders Award continues as an RWJF funded program as it enters a new decade with a renewed dedication to identifying and supporting courageous, creative, and committed leaders working to improve health and health care in their communities.

In the press release announcing the relocation and the new alliance with the Houston – based Harris Foundation, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said, "With the Community Health Leaders’ national program office now based in Houston, RWJF will expand its reach to grow our family of dedicated and innovative leaders. We look forward to celebrating this next phase of growth for the 17 year old Community Health Leaders Award."

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Ten Outstanding Leaders Honored for Improving Health and Health Care in Hard-to-Reach Communities

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Alvin D. Jackson, M.D. (CHL 2001) is director of the Ohio Department of Health.

As Congress and President Barack Obama wrangle over health care reform, I hope they remember one very important point: Any plan that doesn’t include prevention as a key element will not succeed.

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When Dennis Berens received a call from Ezekiel Emanuel, a senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget on health policy and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, asking him if he wanted to attend the March 5, 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform, Berens, president-elect of the National Rural Health Association, eagerly agreed to attend the forum. The forum convened approximately 130 members of Congress, health care organization executives and community members to determine how to lower health care costs for everyone, improve quality and expand coverage for all Americans.

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San Diego Peer Exchange

In May 2008, Community Health Leaders (CHL) from the southwest border states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas met in San Diego to deliberate a crosscutting issue of great concern and controversy. It is an issue having a major impact in their communities: health and health care for immigrants and their families in the southwest United States. As peers they exchanged knowledge and experiences, and developed a consensus on recommendations to improve practices and policies

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Hugh “Trey” Daly III
Community Health Leader
2009

Hugh F. "Trey" Daly III, J.D., is senior attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio.
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