RWJF CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY AT MEHARRY

In February 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) awarded Meharry Medical College a multimillion dollar endowment to establish the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College. Meharry is the nation's largest private historically black academic health center, and RWJF is the largest philanthropy devoted solely to improving the health and health care of all Americans.

The goal of the RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College is to provide leadership in health policy education along with research and reform on national, state, and local levels, while continually supporting Meharry Medical College's historic mission of improving the health and health care of minority and underserved communities.

IN THE NEWS

Policy Center Notes April 2013 Issue Now Available

The April - June 2013 online issue of Policy Center Notes, the Center's quarterly publication, is now available. Policy Center Notes features the achievements and scholarly works of Fellows, Scholars and Associates, shares the latest health policy news and highlights various programs and activities sponsored by the Center. 

In this issue, we spotlight Health Policy Doctoral Fellows Taylor Hargrove and Courtney Thomas and their research on racial health inequality, as well as broadcast the 2013 Summer Institute on Health Policy. 

Click here to read the entire issue.

Health Policy Scholars Awarded Prizes at Meharry 57th Annual Research Day

Congratulations to RWJF Health Policy Scholars Ballington Kinlock, Irwine Sainvil, LaKeisha Tillery, and Tulani Washington-Plaskett, who all took home top prizes at the 57th Annual Student Research Day at Meharry Medical College on March 13, 2013.

Ballington Kinlock won the 1st Place prize in the category for senior level biomedical Ph.D. students after presenting his work entitled, "Transmission of HIV-1 across the mucosal vaginal epithelial layer utilizes the Rab-11 dependent recycling endosomal pathway and can be influenced by the sex hormone progesterone."

Irwine Sainvil won 3rd Place among dental students for "Readability of informed consent documents for limited literacy of minority populations."

Lakeisha Tillery, a doctoral student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, won 2nd Place for her research poster titled, "Protease-activated receptor-3 signals independent of protease-activated receptor-1 to regulate endothelial nitric oxide synthase in human edothelial cells."

Tulani Washington-Plaskett won 1st Place in the category for Medical Research for her abstract titled, "Race differences in the age at diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases."