News, Insights & Evidence

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Community Leaders visit the Boys Totem Town Site Redevelopment project in St. Paul, Minn., on September 14, 2023. Photo by Caroline Yang.

Community Leaders visit the Boys Totem Town Site Redevelopment project in St. Paul, Minn., on September 14, 2023. Photo by Caroline Yang.

We value community wisdom and institutional knowledge, and our commitment to continuous learning allows us to listen and connect insights to chart a course to health equity—faster and together. Explore news, research, policy updates, and thought leadership from experts within and outside RWJF, below.

Trending Topics

The landscape affecting the barriers to health equity is constantly shifting. Stay up to date as RWJF experts share their perspectives on timely news affecting our collective ability to get to a future where health equity is a reality.

In the Press

The White House's new, quiet plan to attack public health | Opinion

The Administration has quietly issued a sweeping regulation that seems to make political ideology, rather than scientific merit, the overriding determinant in all federal research and grant funding decisions. 
Public and Community Health Policy and Law
In the Press

Health advice feels unstable right now. Here’s what parents can still trust

When we tell parents to make better individual choices without fixing the systems that shape those choices, we're transferring the burden, not solving the problem.
Child and Family Wellbeing Nutrition
In the Press

The Quiet Unraveling of Health Insurance Coverage in America

Over the next few years, more than 15 million Americans are expected to lose the healthcare coverage they have now. Policymakers should be recommitting to making healthcare coverage accessible, affordable, and permanent for all.
Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law

Expert Insights

Sharing solutions and stories from communities across America, along with critical perspectives and the best available data and evidence that can inform progress toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

Blog Post

Making Universal Childcare a Reality

Childcare as a public good has powerful potential to strengthen families and communities.
Child and Family Wellbeing Ideas for an Equitable Future Education
A group of people standing outside in a garden. One adult holds a child.
Blog Post

Black Leaders Describe What America Needs for a Better Future

These Black visionaries are keeping hope alive and building a future the next generation deserves.
Child and Family Wellbeing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Community Power
An illustration showing the inseparable imagery of the American flag and immigration.
Blog Post

To Build Belonging, Every Community Must Count

After decades of advocacy, a new change is offering hope for restoring dignity and belonging to one community. And it offers lessons for partnering with ALL communities.
Equitable Community Development Community Power
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Our Research

We work to expand our nation's evidence base on what can help us achieve health equity faster and together. We recognize that equitable data collection and analysis is necessary to dismantle barriers to health equity.

Neighbors meet to discuss the transformation of a flood zone into a community recreation park as part of a climate resiliency project.
Research

How Displacement Harms Communities and Health

This research roundup brings together research and stories illustrating how displacement happens, the harm it causes, and innovative solutions to prevent it and support recovery.
Social Determinants of Health Policy and Law Housing
Andrew Anderson
Brief

A 3-Part Strategy for Better Health Insurance

Researchers from the Georgetown Center for Health Insurance Reforms outline a three-part roadmap to lower costs and administrative complexity for patients, and address the underlying drivers of growing healthcare costs in America.
Healthcare Coverage and Access
Story reading time at the Algiers Regional Library..Betty Giannone with her grandson, Remington Comardelle, 3.
Brief

Marketplace Pulse: Overcharged and Shortchanged

High healthcare costs, medical debt, and rising uninsured rates are making Americans poorer and sicker. Understand the crisis—and how we can create a fairer system.
Healthcare Coverage and Access
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Advocacy & Policy

We are committed to advancing the policies, practices, and systems changes that can dismantle structural barriers to wellbeing, especially racism. We take the long view and focus on efforts that have a lasting impact on systemic, generational change.

Nurse, Paola Diaz checks the blood pressure of farm worker and diabetic patient, Michael, at the Hudson River Health Care Migrant clinic in New Paltz, NY. Rural Health Care.
Brief

How Will the Changing Federal Policy Landscape Affect Hospitals?

Major federal policy changes could mean millions will lose coverage and health systems may struggle to provide adequate care.
Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law Immigration Status
Young woman and her son at the doctor.
Brief

Nearly Half of Working-Age Adults Struggled to Afford Healthcare in 2025

Healthcare is becoming increasingly unaffordable for U.S. families, as medical costs increase more quickly than incomes.
Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
Marie Monica Ulysse, right, a counselor at the Joint Committee for Children's Healthcare in Everett, speaks with client Hermione Saint-Hilaire. The Joint Committee focuses on connecting Everett's citizens with the health services available to them.
Brief

Marketplace Pulse: If You Build it, Will They Come?—Off-Exchange Offerings Explode in 2026

There is a shift underway in the individual health insurance market. It remains to be seen whether or not this growth in offerings will be met with increased enrollment, and what that might mean for the individual market as a whole.
Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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