Edison, New Jersey, United States
I am a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to reduce health disparities and advance diversity, equity and inclusion. Diverse perspectives are vital to fostering the ideas and innovations needed to solve complex problems affecting our nation’s health and reduce health disparities. I am proud to serve as program officer for : - New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming, a program supporting a diverse network of over 1300 scholars from historically underrepresented and disadvantaged groups. The program provides research grants, methodological training, and leadership and professional development. -Project L/Earn, an internship program designed to increase the number of health researchers from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in health-related graduate programs. -the Foundation's Diversity Committee Read my blog post on strategies for enhancing diversity. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2013/04/strategies_for_enhan.html