50 Years of Health Policy, 50 Years of RWJF Health Policy Fellows

“The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program and the fellows have been involved materially in every major health policy initiative that’s gone on for the last half a century in the United States of America.”

— Scott Young, 2001-02 fellow and 50th Anniversary History Committee Co-Chair

The last half century of health policy in the United States is the history of the RWJF Health Policy Fellows program. Since 1975, RWJF HPF fellows have completed placements in Congress and the Executive branch each year, inevitably working on, to some degree, every piece of health policy legislation that has made its way through Congress. The following timeline provides a snapshot of this health policy history, a history defined by dedicated people, including the RWJF HPF fellows, working to improve the health of the nation through national policy.