Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
{{#badges: Tobaccowiki}} The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) "seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans," according to its mission statement. [1]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds tobacco control and health projects. The tobacco industry has considered the RWJF an adversary and kept a close eye on projects funded by RWJF. In 1994 the tobacco industry lobby has opposed public health anti-smoking commercials commercials funded by the RWJF.[2][3][4]
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Fake news
In 1999, RWJF awarded a two-month contract worth $51,844 to Home Front Communications, for the "production and distribution of television messages to encourage enrollment in CHIP," the Children's Health Insurance Program. [5] Home Front is a broadcast public relations firm infamous for having produced two video news releases for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promoting the benefits of the controversial Medicare drug law. [1] The Government Accountability Office later ruled that the VNRs had "violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes." [2]
Other Home Front Communications work for RWJF, done in conjunction with the PR firm Burness Communications from 2003 through mid-September 2007, includes producing and distributing "86 broadcast material packets to television stations and/or radio stations highlighting health and health care issues important to RWJF and featuring RWJF grantees and their work," reaching "more than 684-million viewers." RWJF noted, "Much of the content was utilized by stations in the top 20 or 50 markets." [3]
Board of Trustees
- Thomas H. Kean, Chairman
- Robert E. Campbell, "retired vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson (J&J)"
- Nancy-Ann DeParle, "senior adviser at J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC"
- George S. Frazza, "counsel for Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler; "previously served Johnson & Johnson for more than 30 years in the roles of corporate secretary, vice president and general counsel, and was a member of the executive committee."
- Linda Griego, "president of Zapgo Entertainment Group"
- Wendy W. Hagen, "senior vice president of Porter Novelli International"
- Edward J. Hartnett, "retired company group chairman of Johnson & Johnson responsible for Ethicon Inc., and other international affiliates."
- Robert Wood Johnson IV, "chairman and CEO of the Johnson Company"
- Ralph S. Larsen, "former chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson (J&J)."
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., Foundation president and CEO
- Edward E. Matthews, "senior advisor and was formerly senior vice chair, Investments and Financial Services of American International Group, Inc. (AIG)"
- William L. Roper, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC); CEO, UNC Health Care System and "vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC."
- Marla E. Salmon, Sc.D., R.N., "dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta."
- Gail L. Warden, former "president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System"
- Richard B. Worley, "managing director of Permit Capital Group, LLC"; retired "CEO and chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management."
- See full biographies on RWJF website.
Contact details
P.O. Box 2316
College Road East and Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08543
(888) 631-9989
URL: http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
Turning Point Program
SourceWatch resources
- funders
- health care
- Home Front Communications
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker
- Caring Connections
- Margaret E. Mahoney - key person during 70s
- Constance M. Pechura
External links
References
- ↑ Robert Pear, "U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny", New York Times, March 15, 2004.
- ↑ Government Accountability Office, "Ruling: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services -- Video News Releases," May 19, 2004.
- ↑ "Broadcast Health Series Highlights the Work of RWJF and its Grantees to Improve Health and Health Care: Grant Results," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 2007, accessed December 2007.
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