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Politicized Topics in School, the War in Ukraine, Post-Quantum Cryptography: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 12, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the intrusion of politicized topics in America's schools, where the war in Ukraine may be headed, post-quantum cryptography, and more.
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Racial Equity
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In Search of an Equity Lens: A Physician's Journey
Mahshid Abir
Aug 11, 2022
The RAND Blog
Patient health outcomes, communication with providers, and overall patient satisfaction improve when patients and providers share a similar background. Further, diverse work environments may positively impact health care provider job satisfaction. Increasing diversity in health care work settings is a first important step that could help to increase equity and inclusion in these environments.
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Organizational Leadership
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Our New CEO, Algorithmic Bias, Equity in the Workplace: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 5, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on what RAND’s new president and CEO envisions for the future, addressing bias in health care algorithms, creating equitable change in the workplace, and more.
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Workforce Diversity
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Seven Ways to Build a Truly Equitable DEI Strategy
Rhianna C. Rogers
Aug 1, 2022
Fast Company
Despite growth in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) roles worldwide, not much has changed with the power structure in DEI spaces, which still center on the C-suite and tend to be populated with groups that are less knowledgeable on research in DEI. Here are seven strategies for building a more-equitable DEI program.
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Russia
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Talking to Russia, Racial Bias, Mine-Hunting Dolphins: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 29, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on preventing escalation of the war in Ukraine, how racial bias compounds over time, why the Navy should stick with its mine-hunting dolphins, and more.
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Women's Health
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Abortion Misinformation, Deepfakes, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 8, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on abortion misinformation in a post-Roe world, the threat of deepfakes, environmental hazards in historically redlined communities, and more.
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Environmental Pollution
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Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities
Jun 27, 2022
Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.
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Gun Policy
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Gun Policy, Ukraine's Best Chance for Peace, Equity and Public Policy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 3, 2022
This weekly recap focuses what the scientific evidence says about gun laws, a potential pathway toward peace in Ukraine, helping incarcerated parents, and more.
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Refugees
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Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 1, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how to help Ukrainian refugees, the link between cognitive processes and Truth Decay, tracking wastewater to understand the spread of COVID-19, and more.
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Discriminatory Practices
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Algorithms Teach Us Why Equity Is Hard
Irineo Cabreros @cabrerosic
Mar 28, 2022
Los Angeles Times
If all the shortcomings of humanity were stripped away, equity would still be an elusive goal for algorithms for reasons that have more to do with mathematical impossibilities than backward ideologies. But even if attaining equity is fundamentally difficult, seeking it is not futile.
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Russia
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Insights on Russia's War in Ukraine, Global Citizenship, Vaccination Equity: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 25, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on Russia's war on Ukraine, medication treatment for patients with opioid use disorder, promoting global citizenship in America, and more.
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Gender Equity in the Workplace
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A Promising Era for Women of Color in U.S. Elections, but Gains in Broader Workplace Leadership Remain Elusive
Zara Fatima Abdurahaman
Mar 22, 2022
The RAND Blog
Women of color remain significantly underrepresented in workplace leadership and along the promotion pipeline in comparison to white women, as well as to black and white men. How much more work needs to be done to achieve the combination of race and gender equity in leadership?
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International Diplomacy
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Responding to Russia, Sex Trafficking, Anti-Bias Education: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 25, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the false choice between responding to Russia or deterring China, how substance use and sex trafficking are connected, providing anti-bias education in U.S. schools, and more.
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Racial Equity
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Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year
Rhianna C. Rogers
Jan 3, 2022
Santa Monica Daily Press
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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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.
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Telemedicine
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Rethinking the Impact of Audio-Only Visits on Health Equity
Lori Uscher-Pines, Lucy B. Schulson
Dec 17, 2021
Health Affairs
New pandemic-era flexibility that allowed audio-only health visits to be routinely reimbursed as telehealth may be leading to substandard care for those it was meant to serve. It may be time to consider limiting audio-only visits in the pursuit of health equity.
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Quoted

The strength of NATO is that it is at its essence an ongoing consultation based on trust, and where needed a central meeting point for smaller groups of allies to collaborate on an issue-by-issue basis. Finland and Sweden could benefit by working from the outset to advance the dialogue, express their interests, and help to shape what can be a stronger, smarter NATO.

Gene Germanovich

International Defense Researcher

Source: United Press International

The world is two-and-a-half years into COVID-19, facing another international and national emerging infectious disease outbreak with monkey pox, and experts have warned that such diseases are only becoming more likely. A serious reckoning beginning with a 9/11-like commission for COVID-19 could be undertaken to develop a system for preparing for and responding to emerging infectious diseases. Relying on “ad hoc-ery” may not be the best option.

Daniel M. Gerstein

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: The Hill

Hypothetical Scenarios of U.S.-China Conflict

Educators' Views on Politicized Topics in School

Learning, Relearning, and Not Learning the Lessons of COVID-19

Finnish and Swedish NATO Membership: Toward a Larger, Stronger, Smarter Alliance

Three Steps to Protect Communities from Climate Change

The Policy Currents Podcast

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Racial Equity

Politicized Topics in School, the War in Ukraine, Post-Quantum Cryptography: RAND Weekly Recap

In Search of an Equity Lens: A Physician's Journey

Our New CEO, Algorithmic Bias, Equity in the Workplace: RAND Weekly Recap

Seven Ways to Build a Truly Equitable DEI Strategy

Talking to Russia, Racial Bias, Mine-Hunting Dolphins: RAND Weekly Recap

Abortion Misinformation, Deepfakes, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap

Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

Gun Policy, Ukraine's Best Chance for Peace, Equity and Public Policy: RAND Weekly Recap

Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap

Algorithms Teach Us Why Equity Is Hard

Insights on Russia's War in Ukraine, Global Citizenship, Vaccination Equity: RAND Weekly Recap

A Promising Era for Women of Color in U.S. Elections, but Gains in Broader Workplace Leadership Remain Elusive

Responding to Russia, Sex Trafficking, Anti-Bias Education: RAND Weekly Recap

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

RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

Rethinking the Impact of Audio-Only Visits on Health Equity

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