Pamela Russo - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)Pamela Russo, MD, MPH joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2001 as a senior program officer. Her work concentrates on improving population health at the community level, based on the understanding of health as the result of interactions between social, environmental, behavioral, health care, and genetic determinants.Dr. Russo's work includes developing robust collaborative partnerships across different sectors, agencies, and organizations and addressing the root causes underlying inequities in the determinants between different populations or neighborhoods; transforming the governmental public health system, including national accreditation as a platform for quality improvement; health impact assessment and related approaches bringing a health lens to decisions made in other sectors; and working with communities to identify and implement financing innovations to sustain their progress in improving the health of all in their communities. Dr. Russo is a member of the National Academies of Medicine Population Health Roundtable. Dr. Russo participated in the original prototyping group of Community Benefit Insight.Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Russo was an associate professor of medicine, researcher in clinical outcomes, and program co-director for the master's program and fellowship in clinical epidemiology and health services research at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. Her education includes a BS from Harvard College, MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.
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