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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIPS AND PEW HEALTH POLICY PROGRAM
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIPS AND PEW HEALTH POLICY PROGRAM
Pages 146-155
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ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIPS The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships The RWJ Health Policy Fellowships program is designed to develop the capacity of outstanding midcareer health professionals working in academic institutions and community-based health care delivery systems to assume I46
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THE PEW HEALTH POLICY PROGRAM The Pew Charitable Trusts established the Pew Health Policy Program in 1982 to train leaders in health care. It was the foundation's first Trust-initiated program.
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A small number of recent fellows have also split their time in this way. To respond to the need, Pew selected four institutions with demonstrated capabilities in health policy development and education to sponsor specialized training programs in health: Boston University/Brandeis University; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Michigan; and RAND/ University of Califomia, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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EVOLUTION AND IMPACT As documented in various informal and formal evaluations conducted over the years, both the RW] and the Pew programs have been successful in achieving many of their original goals and objectives, particularly in the areas of career development and facilitating the opportunity for midcareer health professionals and health policy researchers to become more effective part~cipants in the world of health policy, health policy research, and public affairs.
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Former Fellows returning to their institutions created an academic health policy presence on the faculties of professional schools and broadened the capacity of these institutions to relate to government and local communities. According to the evaluation surveys, Fellows generally seem to fee!
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The fellowships program continues to have a preponderance of physicians and health professionals from academic health centers, but now has a greater openness to other disciplines and career settings, such as managers of health care plans and social scientists. Further, the role of states in health policy reform has grown and developed over the almost 25 years of the program.
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This, has, in turn, elevated the technical debate about health policy options and implementation to a markedly more sophisticated level.... It can be argued that this crescendo of intellectual interest and training in this field is an inevitable concomitant of the commanding role played by mushrooming health care costs in public budgets and in the economy more generally.
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Over the years, Pew Health Policy Fellows have forged a closer relationship to the TOM as well, even though most Fellows formally interface with the TOM only once during their Pew program training-during the Washington briefing for new Fellows each fall. At this meeting, information about the TOM is disseminated and TOM reports of special interest are showcased.
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and Pew alumni now play at academic institutions and in health care and health policy organizations across the land, in public agencies, in the not-for-profit sector, and in corporate America. The TOM has been an important and valued contributor to the success and impact of these fellowship pro 4These percentages may reflect some selection bias since Fellows involved in TOM activities may have been more likely to respond to the survey.
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1992. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowships: An Evaluation.
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