2012-05-10T18:02:54Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/n/nelson_christopher.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/09/19/SDUT.html 2004-09-19T18:13:00Z 2004-09-19T18:13:00Z

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG799.html 2009-01-13T16:23:00Z 2009-01-13T16:23:00Z

Describes current Department of Defense (DoD) safety and occupational health programs and health information systems, and employee health programs outside of DoD as a foundation for considering a more integrated DoD employee health program.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR553.html 2008-09-29T15:19:00Z 2008-09-29T15:19:00Z

This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR318.html 2006-05-19T16:42:00Z 2006-05-19T16:42:00Z

Assesses whether there is a link between how state and local public health departments are organized and their level of emergency preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR316.html 2006-04-14T15:37:00Z 2006-04-14T15:37:00Z

Develops a framework for applying quality improvement (QI) in public health; investigates the applicability of those models to public health emergency preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR665.html 2009-09-03T18:15:00Z 2009-09-03T18:15:00Z

Presents assessments that test five critical elements of state and local health departments' capability to deliver countermeasures to the population under rapid timeframes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR660.html 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response asked RAND to facilitate the development of a public health systems research agenda for emergency preparedness with a focus on both short- and long-term priorities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR712.html 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z

Describes a tool for assessing key features of good crisis decision making that focuses on the processes of decision making -- situational awareness, action planning, and process control -- and can be used for exploratory analysis and process improvement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR276.html 2005-08-04T10:40:00Z 2005-08-04T10:40:00Z

Evaluates a pilot fellowship program on patient safety concepts that addresses the issue of deaths from preventable medical errors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9401.html 2008-11-10T16:25:00Z 2008-11-10T16:25:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes the results of a RAND initiative to develop performance standards for distributing antibiotics and other lifesaving medical countermeasures on a large scale within the critical first 48 hours of a public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9434.html 2009-04-01T16:20:00Z 2009-04-01T16:20:00Z

This research highlight summarizes the findings of RAND's initial evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative and the program's impact on communities' readiness to conduct mass dispensing of medications and other medical supplies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9286.html 2007-09-05T10:01:00Z 2007-09-05T10:01:00Z

This research brief summarizes research that has identified the advantages and disadvantages of some approaches used to measure public health preparedness and suggested avenues for developing new preparedness tools.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9197.html 2006-09-06T16:30:00Z 2006-09-06T16:30:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes interrelated RAND projects to examine public health infrastructure and how public health preparedness is transforming public health agencies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9198.html 2006-09-06T16:30:00Z 2006-09-06T16:30:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes a RAND study to show how quality improvement methods can be used to improve the emergency preparedness of the U.S. public health system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR543.html 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z

Discusses an effort to develop a clear and widely applicable definition of public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) that can provide a basis on which to develop PHEP standards and measures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR692.html 2009-10-11T08:52:00Z 2009-10-11T08:52:00Z

Introduces and explains two new modules for the RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game, an Excel-based computer simulation game designed to provide practice in managing inventories of medical countermeasures during a largescale public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR577.html 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z

Currently, there are no established tools for identifying, measuring, and improving public health crisis decisionmaking. As a first step toward meeting this need, this paper describes a tool to measure and improve key aspects of decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR455.html 2007-04-07T10:29:00Z 2007-04-07T10:29:00Z

This report presents a set of operational drills designed to supplement the current checklist-based system of assessing state and local government readiness for receiving, distributing, and dispensing materiel from the Strategic National Stockpile.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR639.html 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z

Contains a template that public health agencies can use to conduct a workshop to improve key aspects of Strategic National Stockpile planning: pediatric dispensing, altered standards of care, and allocation of scarce resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR732.html 2010-05-07T16:32:00Z 2010-05-07T16:32:00Z

The National Environmental Performance Track program sought to encourage facilities to improve their environmental performance. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should continue to find ways to enhance traditional regulatory approaches.