Minority Populations

Racial Equity

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The Impact of Racism on Patient Safety
Minoritized patients are at high risk of experiencing what the medical field calls “patient safety events.” But the way the U.S. health care system tracks patient safety too often makes their experiences invisible. Better reporting would allow hospitals and other providers to identify disparities in care, and to address them.
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Oct 26, 2022

Racial Equity

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Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year
Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy director Rhianna Rogers reflects on her 2022 resolution: Draw together folks from different cultural perspectives to speak with and learn from one another, and work together to find ways to make the world better for all.
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Jan 3, 2022
Santa Monica Daily Press
Rhianna C. Rogers
Imagery Intelligence

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China's Disappeared Uyghurs: What Satellite Images Reveal
At least one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have vanished into a sprawling network of camps and prisons in China's far west. Satellite images show brightly lit compounds, wall after wall of barbed wire, and a sudden rush to build what appear to be fortified preschools.
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Apr 29, 2021
International Diplomacy

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Upcoming Summit an Opportunity for Japan to Reconsider Whether to Join Rest of G-7 in Sanctioning China Over Genocide
Japan has been lukewarm in its response to global condemnation of China's crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. What options might President Biden have to encourage Japan to reconsider its position as he hosts his first in-person summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga?
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Apr 15, 2021
The Hill
Scott W. Harold
Community Health and Well-Being

blog
RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need
Jessica Arana, a designer at RAND, volunteers with the Auntie Sewing Squad, a mask-making effort started by comedian Kristina Wong. Arana first donated to the effort but soon became an organizer focused on minority, immigrant, farmworker, and low-income communities.
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Mar 12, 2021
Employment and Unemployment

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Unemployment Insurance, Domestic Extremists, Housing Insecurity: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on what the pandemic has revealed about America's unemployment system, why stopping domestic extremism will be difficult, how housing insecurity may affect sleep, and more.
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Feb 5, 2021
Sexual Behavior

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Public Health Reasons to Tune Into TV's 'Dear White People'
The Netflix series Dear White People shows how sexual decisionmaking can be influenced by race, status, and the power dynamics within a relationship. Public health programs and policies could be better tailored to account for this complexity.
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Aug 10, 2018
Scientific American
Sarah MacCarthy
Middle East

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State Competition, Not Sectarianism, Key Driver of Middle East Politics
Sectarianism is real and dangerous in the Middle East, but the region is more complicated. The next leaders in Iran and Saudi Arabia, under pressure from youthful populations and worsening economic challenges, may no longer see value in a costly sectarian agenda.
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Aug 3, 2017
Axios
Dalia Dassa Kaye
Technical Professions

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To Increase Diversity in Tech, We Need to Rethink What 'Tech' Is
Rethinking what defines today's tech jobs, along with greater investment in public-private partnerships, could go a long way toward bridging the diversity gap.
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Nov 17, 2016
The Hill
Diana Gehlhaus
Afghanistan

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RAND Experts Q&A on the Fighting in Kunduz
The Taliban battled its way into the center of Kunduz this week, with media reports saying it seized control of the northern Afghanistan city at least for a time. A trio of RAND experts participated in a Q&A on the situation and its significance.
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Oct 2, 2015
Affordable Care Act

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Many Americans Are Confused About the Affordable Care Act
In a nationally representative sample of more than 6,000 Americans, researchers found an acute lack of understanding among low-income people regarding finances in general, and health reform and health insurance in particular.
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Mar 26, 2014
Community-Based Health Care

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Using the Power of Communities to Beat Depression
Under-resourced communities of color have limited access to programs that could improve recognition and treatment of depression. RAND and UCLA investigators applied an engagement model to determine how to better serve these communities.
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Aug 27, 2013
The RAND Blog
Kenneth B. Wells, Loretta Jones
International Diplomacy

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Is Turkey Rethinking the Syrian Kurd Issue?
An autonomous Kurdish region that remains an integral part of Syria, even one dominated by the PYD (the Democratic Union, the largest and best organized Kurdish opposition party), would be far less dangerous than one dominated by forces affiliated with al Qaeda.
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Aug 21, 2013
CNN
F. Stephen Larrabee
Iraq

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Reading the Tea Leaves in Iraq
The United States should not be too quick to write off Iraq based on recent violent trends, says Jason Campbell. After all, if there is anything that should be remembered from years past it's that the Iraqi populace can endure astonishing levels of violence and still maintain confidence in the survival of the state.
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Aug 19, 2013
War on the Rocks
Jason H. Campbell @JasonHCampbell
International Diplomacy

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Obama's Burmese Gamble
A year ago, the United States and Myanmar (Burma) did not even have ambassadors in each other's capitals. In May, President Thein Sein became the first leader from Myanmar to visit the White House in nearly a half-century. Has Obama's administration been too quick to embrace what was one of the world's most repressive regimes?
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Jul 11, 2013
Project Syndicate
Jonah Blank
Nation Building

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Saved by the Diaspora
If Alawites and Sunnis living abroad can stand united against the Assad regime, so can their counterparts inside Syria. By setting an example of coexistence, they can mitigate the fears of Alawites in Syria that deserting Assad would facilitate the rise of an anti-Alawite Sunni regime.
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May 24, 2013
Project Syndicate
Wasif Syed
Minority Populations

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Iran's Forgotten Ethnic Minorities
Non-Persian ethnic minorities make up roughly 40 to 50 percent of Iran's population. Marginalized from society, they may choose a path of political apathy. On the other hand, Tehran's refusal to acknowledge minority rights may lead to future ethnic insurgencies and uprisings.
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Apr 4, 2013
Foreign Policy
Alireza Nader, Robert Stewart
Afghanistan

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Path to a Pashtun Rebellion in Afghanistan
The discussion of American troop numbers misunderstands the subtle nuances of fighting a war in areas inhabited by fiercely independent Pashtun tribes, whose culture and traditions are under severe threat from the Taliban, writes Seth Jones.
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Oct 2, 2009
Washington Post
Seth G. Jones
commentary
France's Muslim Minority
Published commentary by RAND staff: France's Muslim Minority appearing in United Press International.
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Dec 8, 2005
United Press International
Robert A. Levine
commentary
Majority Rule That Respects Minorities
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Jun 11, 2005
International Herald Tribune
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins

Quoted

Software supply chain security has emerged as a leading risk because of the massively fragmented and decentralized nature of modern software development. Unlike other problems in cybersecurity, this is a discrete problem, where the data exist. Information required to map software dependents or dependencies is knowable because there exists a finite limit to the number of nodes and dependencies.

Sasha Romanosky

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: The Hill

Compared to White women, Black women are 3.7 times more likely to die and Asian women 1.8 times more likely to die during or within the 6 weeks after pregnancy.…[W]omen experiencing disadvantage (e.g. domestic abuse, mental health illness, substance abuse) [are] also at greater risk of death during or soon after pregnancy.

Lucy Hocking

Senior Analyst

Source: The RAND Blog

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Minority Populations

The Impact of Racism on Patient Safety

Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year

China's Disappeared Uyghurs: What Satellite Images Reveal

Upcoming Summit an Opportunity for Japan to Reconsider Whether to Join Rest of G-7 in Sanctioning China Over Genocide

RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need

Unemployment Insurance, Domestic Extremists, Housing Insecurity: RAND Weekly Recap

Public Health Reasons to Tune Into TV's 'Dear White People'

State Competition, Not Sectarianism, Key Driver of Middle East Politics

To Increase Diversity in Tech, We Need to Rethink What 'Tech' Is

RAND Experts Q&A on the Fighting in Kunduz

Many Americans Are Confused About the Affordable Care Act

Using the Power of Communities to Beat Depression

Is Turkey Rethinking the Syrian Kurd Issue?

Reading the Tea Leaves in Iraq

Obama's Burmese Gamble

Saved by the Diaspora

Iran's Forgotten Ethnic Minorities

Path to a Pashtun Rebellion in Afghanistan

France's Muslim Minority

Majority Rule That Respects Minorities

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