Post-Affirmative Action Era
In the face of DEI rollbacks and challenges to progress, RWJF remains steadfast in their commitment to take bold leaps with our partners to pave the way together to a future where health is not a privilege, but a right. Their long-term vision is one where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, where past harms are rectified, and we can prevent future harm from happening.
Event: Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce
As academic institutions grapple with the question of what to do with their diversity programs, there are strategies that can help recruit, retain, and promote diverse faculty, staff, and students to create a healthcare workforce that reflects the nation. Join RWJF on July 9 at 1pm ET for a live conversation that will equip leaders with the tools to implement effective recruitment, retention, and promotion practices for scholars from historically marginalized backgrounds.
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Advancing Inclusion in Higher Education
The nation's future prosperity and unity depend upon America becoming a true multiracial democracy. This aspiration requires vital work to achieve equity, diversity, and inclusion across many systems—healthcare and government to name a few. With good data, committed leadership, and sufficient funding, institutions can be welcoming, diverse places that offer everyone equal opportunities.
From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Everyone deserves the right to bodily autonomy and privacy, to have children, to not have children, and to parent in safe, sustainable communities. For too long, policies and practices that restrict access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare have created barriers to receive safe, high-quality, and respectful reproductive medical care, including abortion care —particularly for people of color, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. When we center the needs of the most marginalized by addressing intersecting forms of oppression , we move beyond reproductive rights toward reproductive justice.
Advancing Solutions for Reproductive Justice
Research underscores the importance of strengthening family support programs and expanding access to promote health equity, with evidence-based policy solutions such as expanding Medicaid coverage, ensuring access to paid family and medical leave, and investing in essential economic supports like SNAP, WIC, and tax credits—all crucial steps toward advancing reproductive justice.
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Watch: Visioning New Futures for Reproductive Justice*
Thirty years ago, a group of Black women founded the reproductive justice movement to give voice to the unheard needs of their communities. Today—amid numerous challenges to reproductive rights—RWJF is leveraging the movement’s framework and supporting organizations currently fighting to advance reproductive justice, including Black Mamas Matter Alliance and SisterSong.
Latest Funding Opportunities
Addressing Childhood Obesity and Health Inequities
This call for proposals is seeking projects with the potential to support, sustain, and evolve the field in promoting systems-level change to prevent childhood obesity, address structural racism, and advance health equity. Deadline: June 27, 2024
Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity
This call for proposals focuses on studies about “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities. Deadline: Open
Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of HealthPioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health welcomes proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. Dollar amounts to be awarded vary. Deadline: Open