Robert Wood Johnson Young Leaders Awards

Posted by on June 04, 2012

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Marks Its 40th Year by Honoring Young Leaders Through Awards
Deadline: July 16, 2012

For 40 years the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has been helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need. As one way to mark its anniversary, RWJF has established the Young Leader Awards: Recognizing Leadership for a Healthier America. Up to 10 awards will be given to young leaders, 40 years of age and under, who offer great promise for leading the way to improved health and health care for all. Each winner will receive an individual award of $40,000.

Third party nominations will be accepted between May 31, 2012, and July 16, 2012. Award winners will be announced at a RWJF October 25/26, 2102 conference in Princeton, NJ.

To view the Call for Nominations and complete information about selection criteria and nomination requirements, visit http://RWJFyoungleaderawards.org.

The Young Leaders Awards will recognize emerging leaders who have demonstrated the characteristics needed to improve health and health care through leadership and innovation. These characteristics – a combination of personal attributes, commitment to health and health care, and successful experience – demonstrate an ability to lead and innovate and they signal the potential to become a greater leader in the coming years. Some of the characteristics a nominee will have demonstrated include:

The ability to bring others together to achieve results greater than what a single person could bring about;
The capacity to apply learning beyond the boundaries of a single discipline;
Has developing great ideas into products, services or policies that have made a difference in the health and health care; and
Made an impact on health and health care that extends beyond an initial group or people to reach additional populations and will likely be sustainable over the decades ahead.

For the complete list of young leader characteristics sought, please visit http://RWJFyoungleaderawards.org.

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