2012-05-25T18:12:42Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/news/announcements.html http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/news/ashecon2012.html 2012-05-22T16:02:00Z 2012-05-22T16:02:00Z

RAND researchers will be featured in 40 roles at the Conference of American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon), as session chairs, presenters, authors or discussants, June 10-13 in Minneapolis. View our guide to RAND research at ASHEcon 2012 via the link below.

http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/awards-scholars.html#investment 2012-05-22T12:24:00Z 2012-05-22T12:24:00Z

The Bing Center is proud to announce the winners of the Health Economics Investment Award, an internal competition to support RAND researchers in developing projects and promoting publications in health economics. The awards committee selected four proposals out of 15 submissions by Bing affiliates. The winners are <a href="/about/people/a/alpert_abby.html">Abby Alpert</a>, <a href="/about/people/b/bauhoff_sebastian.html">Sebastian Bauhoff</a>, <a href="/about/people/o/okeke_edward_n.html">Edward Okeke</a> and (as a team) Abby Alpert, <a href="/about/people/d/duarte_fabian.html">Fabian Duarte</a> and <a href="/about/people/j/jacobson_mireille.html">Mireille Jacobson</a>.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01hrl6v/Newsweek_Scotland_19_05_2012/ 2012-05-21T16:27:00Z 2012-05-21T16:27:00Z

The British government has said it would not sign defence contracts with Scotland should it vote in 2014 for independence from the United Kingdom. RAND Europe vice president Hans Pung was interviewed by BBC Radio about the future of the Scottish defence industry should it secede. Pung notes, "It would be very difficult to move [aircraft carrier construction] quickly and easily elsewhere in the UK." The 6-minute interview starts at 44:13 in the programme.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2012-146/ 2012-05-16T17:06:00Z 2012-05-16T17:06:00Z

The NIOSH Total Worker Health Program reviewed the scientific evidence for coordinating and integrating worksite health promotion and occupational health and safety programs to promote and protect worker health. RAND contributed a chapter to this effort, focusing on the economics of program integration.

http://www.soapboxmedia.com/features/051512fifthquarter.aspx 2012-05-16T13:17:00Z 2012-05-16T13:17:00Z

With support from the Wallace Foundation, RAND Education and the Cincinnati Public Schools are collaborating on &ldquo;5th Quarter&rdquo;&mdash;a full-day summer learning program for students K&ndash;7 that combines reading, writing, and math instruction with educational field trips. Profiled in an article on www.soapboxmedia.com, 5th Quarter is serving as a national model for school systems that are interested in providing summer academic and social enrichment activities.

http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/awards-scholars.html#investment 2012-05-04T12:24:00Z 2012-05-04T12:24:00Z

Bing affiliates submitted 15 proposals for this year's cycle of the Center's Health Economics Investment Award, which was created to invest in RAND researchers, support pilot studies and promote publications in top economics journals. Up to four awards will be given per cycle &mdash; view previous winners at the link below.

http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/seminars/05/09.html 2012-04-30T18:29:00Z 2012-04-30T18:29:00Z

Jonathan Kolstad, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, presents on the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national mandate-based health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage.

http://www.rand.org/blog/2012/04/paul-baran-named-internet-hall-of-fame-pioneer.html 2012-04-25T17:22:00Z 2012-04-25T17:22:00Z

Paul Baran, who helped develop the building blocks of the Internet during the 1960s while working as a researcher at the RAND Corporation, was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. He was honored posthumously in the Pioneers Circle with others who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet.

http://www.rand.org/education/news/wise-awards-2012.html 2012-04-23T13:22:00Z 2012-04-23T13:22:00Z

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is accepting applications for the 2012 WISE Awards, which honor education projects around the world&mdash;including in primary education&mdash;that have had a positive societal impact and can serve as models for other institutions or nations. Submissions for the awards will be accepted through May 31, and the winners will be announced at the 2012 WISE Summit in November in Doha, which will include presentations and discussions by RAND researchers. RAND is a partner to the annual event.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html 2012-04-23T11:56:00Z 2012-04-23T11:56:00Z

Roland Sturm's work analyzing the food environment in California and across the U.S. has been cited in a recent article in the <em>New York Times</em>, which focuses on the effects of "food deserts" in poorer neighborhoods.

http://www.rand.org/education/news/wise-awards-2012.html 2012-04-23T11:06:00Z 2012-04-23T11:06:00Z

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is accepting applications for its 2012 awards, which honor education projects around the world—including in primary education—that have had a positive societal impact and can serve as models for other institutions or nations.

http://www.rand.org/about/people/e/elliott_marc_n.html 2012-04-18T17:50:00Z 2012-04-18T17:50:00Z

Elliott, a senior statistician with RAND Health, was recognized for outstanding contributions to statistical methods and practice in measuring patient experience with health services, health disparities and survey methods research, and promoting high caliber statistical practice in research.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/04/16/FP.html 2012-04-18T12:09:00Z 2012-04-18T12:09:00Z

One of the most consequential and contentious issues Air Force leadership faces is determining the active-reserve mix that meets multiple national security objectives at the lowest cost. Al Robbert, a senior policy researcher at RAND, addresses issues raised in Foreignpolicy.com concerning a forthcoming PAF report. PAF’s analysis finds that the cost-minimizing mix of active and reserve flying units is related to the intensity of ongoing operational demands and the capacity of active and reserve fleets to meet those demands.

http://www.rand.org/education/news/aera-2012-annual-meeting.html 2012-04-13T10:48:00Z 2012-04-13T10:48:00Z

RAND's contributions to education research and analysis will be in the spotlight at the American Educational Research Association's yearly conference on April 13-17, 2012. RAND experts will present their work and AERA's Division L will give RAND its "Outstanding Policy Report" award for "A Big Apple for Educators."

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-get-oil-you-may-be-surprised 2012-04-12T10:01:00Z 2012-04-12T10:01:00Z

"The U.S. has really expanded [oil] production over the past several years," Keith Crane told NPR's Corey Flintoff, but he added, oil markets are so intertwined that global markets dictate prices at the pump, not U.S. production.

http://www.rand.org/labor/centers/clasp/research/projects/social-security-program.html 2012-04-11T22:08:00Z 2012-04-11T22:08:00Z

RAND is working with the State of Yucatan, Mexico, to design and evaluate a non-contributory social security program for larger towns. As part of their On-the-Job Training, PRGS students Claudia Diaz (cohort '06), Sarah Outcault (cohort '07), and Alessandro Malchiodi (cohort '08) are working with the RAND Center for Latin American Social Policy on this effort.

http://www.rand.org/feature/teasers/2012.html 2012-04-09T18:14:00Z 2012-04-09T18:14:00Z

Three Bing affiliates will be actively participating in the Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics at Claremont McKenna College on April 13. Mireille Jacobson will be chairing the session on Health, Paul Heaton will serve as discussant and Abby Alpert will present her work on &ldquo;The Anticipatory Effects of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization&rdquo;.

http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/seminars/04/11.html 2012-04-05T10:19:00Z 2012-04-05T10:19:00Z

On Wed., April 11 from 10-11:30 PST, Grant Miller speaks on work to reduce the incidence of anemia in rural China.

http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/seminars/04/13.html 2012-04-03T10:19:00Z 2012-04-03T10:19:00Z

On Mon., April 16 from 2-3:30 PST, Bobbi Wolfe presents an examination of the prevalence and consequences of experiencing a sibling death during one's childhood, focusing on the previously unexamined consequences of child mortality and the correlated societal costs.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/about/news/marjanovic-higher-ed-conference.html 2012-04-02T17:39:00Z 2012-04-02T17:39:00Z

As the leader of a research evaluation of the Wellcome Trust's African Institutions Initiative, Senior Analyst Sonja Marjanovic was a presenter and panelist at a conference organised by the London International Development Centre and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Marjanovic spoke about how to evaluate complex, networked research capacity-building interventions.