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Russia
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U.S.-Russia Diplomacy, Citizen Science, America's Blood Supply: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 21, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on U.S.-Russia diplomacy in the context of the Ukraine crisis, the value of citizen science, strengthening the America's blood supply, and more.
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Global Climate Change
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Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 14, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on technologies that manipulate the climate, what NATO could do to address the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and cost savings from biosimilar drugs.
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Violent Extremism
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Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 7, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the parallels between extremism and substance use disorder, a better way to measure recidivism risk, global vaccine diplomacy, and more.
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Vaccination
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America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy
Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_
Dec 28, 2021
The National Interest
It is hard to see how science alone can end the pandemic without the rallying power of global diplomacy. The United States has played a leadership role in previous outbreaks, such as Ebola. It could play a similar role now to help consign the current pandemic to epidemic status.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021
Dec 22, 2021
As another extraordinary year draws to a close, we continue to believe that objective, nonpartisan research and analysis has a key role to play in navigating what continues to be a difficult time. Here are the 10 research projects that resonated most with rand.org readers in 2021.
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Demographics
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Could the Move Toward Zoom and Other Collaboration Technologies Due to the Pandemic Change the Very Makeup of Populations?
Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM, Andrew M. Parker
Dec 17, 2021
The RAND Blog
Collaborative technologies such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams have transformed how we work, visit the doctor, and go to school. But can they also shift demographic trends in migration, fertility, morbidity, and mortality? And if so, how?
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Labor Markets
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How to Explain This Weird Job Market
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Dec 14, 2021
The Wall Street Journal
It's tempting to see in 2021 a harbinger of some permanent shift in our labor market, but that would be premature. What is clear is that we will never recreate the world of December 2019. The labor market in 2022 and beyond will reflect not only what workers learned from their pandemic experience, but also how employers and policymakers choose to respond.
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Health Insurance
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Temporary Safety-Net Policies Prevented Mass Insurance Loss During the Pandemic
Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner, Jodi L. Liu @jodilliu
Dec 13, 2021
The RAND Blog
Although it provided a foundation, the ACA alone could not have absorbed the effects of the pandemic's sudden job losses on health care coverage. Temporary expansions to the safety net enacted by Congress also were necessary to stem coverage loss. As the pandemic continues, policymakers will want to keep safety-net provisions as available policy options.
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Racial Equity
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Hackathon Introduces Undergraduate Students to Public Policy Research
Dec 10, 2021
For three weeks in October and November, undergraduates from Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College teamed up with Pardee RAND doctoral students to explore how vulnerable communities have fared during the pandemic and envision policies that might produce a more equitable recovery.
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Pandemic
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American Attitudes About Vaccine Globalism
Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman, Anita Chandra
Dec 9, 2021
The RAND Blog
Overall, American support for sharing vaccines with other countries was high even before the Omicron variant. This may reflect recognition of the need to proactively address the pandemic beyond U.S. borders to truly be on the path to recovery.
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Racial Discrimination
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Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, Stabilizing U.S. Rivalries, the Debt-Ceiling Fight: RAND Weekly Recap
Dec 3, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on countering anti-Asian racism, the instability of U.S. rivalries with Russia and China, the rise in extremist online activity, and more.
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International Diplomacy
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U.S. 'Entanglement,' Global Health Cooperation, Community Stress: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 26, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on competing claims about U.S. partnerships and allies, responding to Russia's tactics in Ukraine, helping communities recover from stress, and more.
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Global Health
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Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics
Jennifer Bouey @BoueyHuang
Nov 22, 2021
The RAND Blog
Tensions over the coronavirus seem to be prompting China to isolate itself in terms of data sharing. But the first coronavirus pandemic in 2003 actually helped open China to health collaborations with other countries. World leaders may be doing their citizens a disservice when they allow toxic geopolitics to undercut trust and international collaborations that took decades to build.
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Machine Learning
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Reining in COVID-19 Disinformation from China, Russia, and Elsewhere
Christian Johnson, William Marcellino
Nov 19, 2021
The RAND Blog
During the pandemic, misinformation and conspiracy theories have spread more virulently than ever before. The vast scale of the problem means scalable solutions like machine learning could be needed to rein in the bots, trolls, and conspiracy theories being spread by bad-faith actors.
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Information Operations
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News Manipulation, the Risk of Civil War, Russia and Ukraine: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 19, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on tracking news manipulation during the pandemic, the threat of another civil war, preventing health insurance loss, and more.
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Child Well-Being
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'GDP2,' RAND President and CEO to Retire, Quantum Technology: RAND Weekly Recap
Oct 29, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on why we should measure ‘GDP2,’ an announcement from RAND president and CEO Michael D. Rich, a look at quantum technology, and more.
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Pandemic

U.S.-Russia Diplomacy, Citizen Science, America's Blood Supply: RAND Weekly Recap

Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap

Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap

America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy

The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021

Could the Move Toward Zoom and Other Collaboration Technologies Due to the Pandemic Change the Very Makeup of Populations?

How to Explain This Weird Job Market

Temporary Safety-Net Policies Prevented Mass Insurance Loss During the Pandemic

Hackathon Introduces Undergraduate Students to Public Policy Research

American Attitudes About Vaccine Globalism

Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, Stabilizing U.S. Rivalries, the Debt-Ceiling Fight: RAND Weekly Recap

U.S. 'Entanglement,' Global Health Cooperation, Community Stress: RAND Weekly Recap

Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics

Reining in COVID-19 Disinformation from China, Russia, and Elsewhere

News Manipulation, the Risk of Civil War, Russia and Ukraine: RAND Weekly Recap

'GDP2,' RAND President and CEO to Retire, Quantum Technology: RAND Weekly Recap

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