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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Community Health Leaders
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College Road East and Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08543-2316
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Ten Outstanding Leaders Honored for Improving Health and Health Care in Hard-to-Reach Communities

OPINION

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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Anita Buel
Community Health Leaders
2008

As a deaf person, Anita Buel has had to overcome innumerable communication barriers when seeking...
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