This series primarily contains program staff files documenting pertinent grants, surveys, symposiums, issue papers, and Commission on Women's Health activities.

Index card files documenting early grants, public heath fellowships, and the English Mental Hygiene Program. Portions of these card files also document subject files, general files and rural hospitals.

The majority of the Institute's surviving records consist of financial statements, audits and correspondence relating to fiscal or budget matters. The minutes of the Institute detail the activities of the Board of Directors, the incorporators, the annual corporation meetings, and the committee dividing the assets of the Institute. In late 1937 the Commonwealth Fund decided that all case files pertaining to the treatment of children at the Institute should be destroyed. Therefore, in February of 1938 these records, as well as the index to these cases, were burned. Other folders in this series contain sensitive material.

Types of records include: administrative and grant files.

This series documents the administration of the International Program in Health Care Policy (IHP) including records documenting symposiums, conferences and workshops, program planning, correspondence and reports and chronological files, as well as records of the associated fellowship programs including the Harkness Fellowships, Atlantic Fellowships and Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowships. The bulk of the material represented in this series spans the 1990s through the early 2000s.

Contains documentation of annual meetings, board of directors and special meetings, grants, fellowships, scholarships, sabbaticals, accepted and rejected proposals, finacial reports and correspondence.

Types of records include: grant files and applications.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the Commonwealth Fund provided financial support for several unique projects concerning psychiatry, pediatrics, and the teaching/training of psychiatrists. Public and private institutions, as well as individuals, were recipients of these grants, with the majority going to universities and colleges. The records for the special studies consist mainly of correspondence and general files relating to a specific grant. Financial records are also found in the folders titled "General Files and Correspondence." A list of the original Commonwealth Fund code assigned to the grants is available in the print version of the finding aid.

This series contains program files, planning, and meeting records of the Picker/Commonwealth Fund Scholars Program. The majority of the material is grant administration files documenting the planning and implementation of the Picker Scholars Program. These records often include: proposals, administration and budget files, grant products, evaluation reports, related correspondence and background material. The series also contains files for each of the Picker Scholars 1993-1996. The scholars files include interim and final reports, administration of the fellowship, and related correspondence.