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The '''Robert Wood Johnson Foundation''' (RWJF) "seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans," according to its mission statement. [http://www.rwjf.org/about/mission.jhtml]
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.[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/awc24c00][http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ytk64c00][http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pbu72f00]
==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. [http://www.rwjf.org/publications/publicationsPdfs/annual1999/contracts-access-1.html] 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. <ref>Robert Pear, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/politics/15VIDE.html U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny]", ''New York Times'', March 15, 2004.</ref> The [[Government Accountability Office]] later ruled that the VNRs had "violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or [[propaganda]] purposes." <ref>Government Accountability Office, "[http://www.gao.gov/decisions/appro/302710.htm Ruling: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services -- Video News Releases]," May 19, 2004.</ref>
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." <ref>"[http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/050707.htm 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.</ref>
==Board of Trustees==
*See full [http://www.rwjf.org/about/leadership.jsp biographies] on RWJF website.
==Contact Detailsdetails==
P.O. Box 2316<br>
College Road East and Route 1<br>
[http://turningpointprogram.org/index.html Turning Point Program]<br>
==Related SourceWatch Resourcesresources==
*[[funders]]
*[[health care]]
*[[Home Front Communications]]
*[[Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker]]
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