Public Health Preparedness

Public Health Preparedness
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How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?
Anita Chandra, Linnea Warren May @LinneaKWMay, Laurie T. Martin
Aug 11, 2021
The RAND Blog
As the United States emerges from the devastation of the pandemic, it may be time to examine the choices communities made during the last year to see how these approaches shape continued COVID-19 response and recovery and help build resilience for future pandemic response.
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Public Health Preparedness
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Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic?
Edward W. Chan, Andrew M. Parker
Aug 6, 2021
The RAND Blog
COVID-19 exposed how underprepared the United States was for a pandemic and raised questions about preparedness for the next one. With political will to spend money on public health, how can America take a holistic view of all the options? And how should investments be prioritized?
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Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
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Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges
Robert J. Romanelli, Michael Whitmore, Sonja Marjanovic @SonjaCambs
Jun 14, 2021
The RAND Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that rapid innovation in the face of public health emergencies is possible. In only 15 months, 15 vaccines have been approved or authorized for use in various parts of the world. What thinking is required to support uniform rapid rollout for future public health emergencies?
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Jun 2, 2021
The National Interest
President Joe Biden has called for the U.S. intelligence community to redouble efforts to determine the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conducting this investigation, it might be useful to avoid only focusing on a binary choice. That is, either the virus escaped from the laboratory or from a spillover from an infected animal to a human.
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Educational Equity
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Pandemic Education, Working Mothers, Predicting Cyber Threats: RAND Weekly Recap
May 14, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on the urban-rural divide in pandemic education, supporting working moms, what makes a good COVID-19 reopening plan, and more.
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Public Health Preparedness
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Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 9, 2021
This weekly recap focuses declining trust in the CDC, insights from educators about teaching students with disabilities, Russian mercenaries, and more.
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Public Health Preparedness
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COVID-19 Options for 2021
Rafiq Dossani
Jan 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
The disorganized public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States helped ensure that the nation led the world in infections nearly from the beginning of the pandemic. With vaccines now becoming available, are we over the problem? Not necessarily.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Voting in a Pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service, Defunding the Police: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 28, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on Americans' views about voting in the age of COVID-19, what makes the U.S. Postal Service so essential, why some in law enforcement may be open to “defunding the police,” and more.
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Educational Institutions
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To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities
Peter S. Hussey, John J. Rydzewski
Aug 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
Safely reopening K–12 schools for in-person instruction requires complicated protocols ranging from symptom monitoring to physical distancing, as well as containment of transmission in the community. State policymakers and school leaders could begin planning now to draft, pilot, and evaluate protocols for reopening schools that incorporate rapid testing.
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Public Health Preparedness
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A Stable Blood Supply Is Critical in the COVID-19 Era
Aug 27, 2020
Millions of lives depend on the U.S. blood supply. But no one knows exactly how much blood is in the system at any given time, or whether it's enough to meet demand. The federal government has no way to collect that data, and hospitals don't share it with each other. What can be done to strengthen the system?
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Health Information Privacy
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Mobile Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay, So How Do We Protect Privacy?
Benjamin Boudreaux
Aug 20, 2020
Inside Sources
Mobile phone surveillance can augment public health interventions to manage COVID-19 and might help countries prepare for the next outbreak. But these programs collect sensitive health and behavior data. That raises significant risks to personal privacy and civil liberties.
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Democracy
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Summer Reading List for Congress
Aug 18, 2020
During the August recess Hill staff should have an opportunity to step back from the fast pace of votes and hearing preparation to examine priorities for the fall and beyond. This list of must-read research and commentary covers some policy issues they will likely be addressing after the break.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Is COVID-19 a National Security Emergency?
Louis Klarevas, Colin P. Clarke
Aug 6, 2020
Just Security
Developing an effective national response to COVID-19 could begin with elevating the pandemic from a public health emergency to a national security crisis. The novel coronavirus may not be a threat that the military can defeat, but that doesn't mean the United States shouldn't set it in its sights and go on the offensive against it.
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Health Care Reform
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Out of the Ashes: Forging the Post-Pandemic U.S. Health System
Sydney Fouche, Kaitlyn Entel, Christopher Nelson, Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD, Mahshid Abir
Jul 31, 2020
The RAND Blog
With shifting insights, new problems, and exacerbation of old problems revealed by the pandemic, innovative solutions in the U.S. health system are being adopted where rapid change would normally have been rare. There is both an opportunity and a responsibility to assess how these changes are working and where they can improve health, reduce inequity, and save money.
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China
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China in 2050, Using Mobile Tools to Track COVID-19, Telemedicine: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 31, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the future of U.S.-China competition, privacy concerns surrounding mobile tools used to track COVID-19, how telemedicine can help patients access specialized care, and more.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Preparing for a COVID Surge, Reducing Police Violence, Media Literacy in Schools: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 2, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on helping hospitals prepare for a surge in COVID-19 infections, an approach to reducing police violence, teachers' concerns about students' media literacy, and more.
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Public Health Preparedness

How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?

Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic?

Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges

Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?

Pandemic Education, Working Mothers, Predicting Cyber Threats: RAND Weekly Recap

Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

COVID-19 Options for 2021

Voting in a Pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service, Defunding the Police: RAND Weekly Recap

To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities

A Stable Blood Supply Is Critical in the COVID-19 Era

Mobile Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay, So How Do We Protect Privacy?

Summer Reading List for Congress

Is COVID-19 a National Security Emergency?

Out of the Ashes: Forging the Post-Pandemic U.S. Health System

China in 2050, Using Mobile Tools to Track COVID-19, Telemedicine: RAND Weekly Recap

Preparing for a COVID Surge, Reducing Police Violence, Media Literacy in Schools: RAND Weekly Recap

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