Pardee RAND Graduate School students participate in many RAND research projects through their On-the-Job Training. These projects provide students with tremendous opportunities to publish their work in RAND reports and peer-reviewed journals. In fact, many of our students develop an impressive publications record during their tenure at Pardee RAND, which enables them to compete successfully for positions at universities and other research institutions.
Below is a list of publications that our students have recently authored or co-authored. The list provides an excellent illustration of the range of publications that our students have had a hand in developing.
Drugs to halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease may be available by 2020, but millions of U.S. patients might have to wait more than 14 months for initial appointments in the multistep process unless health care system capacity is increased.
Promising early-stage trial results provide hope that a therapy for Alzheimer's disease may become available that can prevent progression to full-blown dementia. But an important challenge will arise: A substantial backlog of existing cases with early-stage disease would have to be screened, diagnosed, and then potentially treated. This report assesses the preparedness of the U.S. health care system to handle the potential caseload.
The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a new round of strategic planning under the auspices of its 2015 Strategic Master Plan (SMP). This report represents a general survey of the state of the art in strategy and planning. We found that basic concept and approach of the SMP has promise, but its emphasis on pre-set planning could obstruct, rather than facilitate, its objectives.
Book review of "Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions" by Richard Harris.
This assessment of governance approaches for academic medical centers (AMCs) helped the University of California respond to changes in the funding environment and provides a systematic way for any AMC to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of its governance approaches..
Up to 70% of homeless youth smoke, but there is little information available on their smoking cessation experiences and perceptions to guide cessation intervention efforts. This study examined reasons for quitting smoking, previous experiences quitting smoking, and preferences for smoking cessation programs among homeless young adults.
Since 2010, the RAND Corporation has worked with the Kurdistan Regional Government to develop initiatives to improve the region's health care system. The third phase of the project focused on development and use of a primary care management information system; health financing reform, with a focus on policy reform options to deal with physician dual practice; and hospital patient safety training within the context of health quality improvement.
This study suggests initial ideas for managing climate uncertainty in conservation planning. Differences with previous RDM applications include focus on finer scale geography and significantly more uncertainty in the system (species response) model.
We describe the existing public cord blood bank system, assess current trends and economic relationships of key stakeholders, and provide recommendations to improve the economic sustainability of the system. We propose changes to the federal program to buttress banks' financial stability. We found a system valuable to society and worthy of public investment, especially to improve the genetic diversity and quality of the national inventory.
RAND studied trends affecting public cord blood banks and considered changes to the program to buttress banks' financial stability. Researchers found a system worthy of investment, especially if it helps improve the quality of the national inventory.
Community citizen science involves individuals actively leading and carrying out research, exerting a high degree of control and ownership over scientific activities and tends to involve action-oriented research to support interventional activities or policy change. This Perspective examines the transformative potential of community citizen science for communities, science, and decisionmaking.
The Wanxiang Group was awarded a contract by the City of Hangzhou to develop a new industrial park, named the Wanxiang Innovation Energy Fusion City (WIEFC) over the next seven years (2017–2024). In 2016, the Group asked the RAND Corporation to help achieve its vision of developing the WIEFC into an innovative cluster built around smart and green automotive technologies by developing a mission statement and recommending supporting policies.
Using district-level data on demographic, social, economic, health, and environmental factors, RAND researchers created the first-ever tool for measuring and mapping India's population's vulnerability to heat waves: the Heat Vulnerability Index.
The American Health Care Act would increase uninsurance among veterans and demand for Department of Veterans Affairs care by a greater margin than simply returning to pre–Affordable Care Act levels of coverage.
In Washington state, the potency and price of legal cannabis are currently being shaped by the market rather than by policy levers.
This report reviews the status of wearable technologies with potential for use by law enforcement and describes three conceptual integrated vest systems that incorporate these technologies. The three systems represent what could be implemented now, what might be done in the near term to provide additional capabilities, and what might be considered in the future to take advantage of technologies that are still in development.
Some primary care provider experiences and beliefs regarding women's health care influence rates of screening for military sexual trauma (MST) and/or intimate partner violence (IPV) .
Hispanics are less represented in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) civilian workforce than in the federal civilian workforce and the civilian labor force. This report assesses what factors might account for Hispanic underrepresentation in DoD. It includes assessments of trends in Hispanic employment and analyses of job applicant data. It also presents findings from interviews with representatives of DoD and of Hispanic-serving institutions.
Organizational and environmental factors-such as funding mechanisms-were key to the successful implementation and uptake of a Medication Management Therapy program.
Between January 2013 and September 2015, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office sent letters to individuals who had just purchased a handgun reminding them of their legal responsibilities as gun owners. This report evaluates the effect of the letters sent by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office on city-level rates of homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault with a firearm and conducts a cost-benefit assessment of this letter program.
