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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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Pregnancy
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How Policies That Punish Pregnant Women Backfire
Rachel Landis, Laura J. Faherty @LauraFahertyMD, Mishka Terplan
Aug 2, 2022
Santa Monica Daily Press
There is overwhelming evidence and consensus from the medical and public health communities that supportive approaches are what help pregnant women with substance use disorders. Unfortunately, the overturning of Roe v. Wade has opened the door for more policies that police and punish women rather than evidence-based solutions that we know can, do, and will save lives.
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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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Employment and Unemployment
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U.S. Labor Market, 988 Hotline, Firearm Homicides: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 22, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the U.S. economy’s uneven pandemic recovery, a new national mental health hotline, firearm homicides, and more.
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Family Planning
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South Korea's Extraordinary Fertility Decline
Daniel Hicks, Jennifer Bouey @BoueyHuang, Jessie Wang
Jul 22, 2022
The RAND Blog
The complicated history of family planning as well as socioeconomic and political factors may all play roles in depressing birth rates in South Korea. But the nation's fertility decline is just one piece in a complicated gender puzzle.
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Pregnancy
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Abortion Is Power
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Jul 15, 2022
Bloomberg
The Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect much more than women's access to abortions. Abortions allowed women to escape abusive and even deadly relationships. Now that door is closing, state by state.
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Women's Health
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Doubling NIH Funding for Women's Health Would Yield Substantial Return on Investment
Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD
Jul 8, 2022
Health Affairs Blog
The scientific evidence base generally is biased toward the male body as a result of a long history of generous funding for diseases that predominantly affect men and underfunding for those that predominantly affect women. But the cost of the science pales in comparison to the price we continue to pay for what we don't know about caring for women.
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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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Women's Health
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Combating Abortion Misinformation in the Post-Roe Environment
Julia Rollison @Julia_Rollison
Jul 6, 2022
Route Fifty
Misinformation could become a major barrier to individuals trying to navigate their way to safe, legal, and quality reproductive care. What might states, health insurers, and technology companies do to address this issue?
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Women's Health
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Overturning Roe, a New Mental Health Hotline, Russia: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 1, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how repealing Roe v. Wade could affect women in the military, whether America is prepared to launch a new emergency mental health hotline, Russia's war in Ukraine, and more.
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Refugees
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Refugees, Women's Health Research, Supporting Incarcerated Parents: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 18, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the humanitarian fallout from a Russian invasion of Ukraine, investing in women’s health research, supporting incarcerated parents, and more.
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Women's Health
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Underfunding of Research in Women's Health Issues Is the Biggest Missed Opportunity in Health Care
Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD
Feb 11, 2022
Fortune
For far too long, the medical sciences have treated men and women as interchangeable subjects, favoring men's health for funding and the male body for study. This approach creates a problem, not just for women but for everyone. Not only does it miss a large and critical slice of the population, it leaves an unknown amount of science unexplored.
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International Diplomacy
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China and Russia, Wages and Insurance, Refugees and Technology : RAND Weekly Recap
Oct 15, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on China-Russia ties, considerations when raising the minimum wage, how refugees use digital devices, and more.
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Health Interventions
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Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk
Jul 1, 2021
Black babies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and across America—face much higher mortality rates than white babies. Researchers pulled together thousands of data points on more than 150,000 births to better predict who is at risk and how to help.
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Maternal Health
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Mothers Need a Continuous System of Care Even After Babies Are Born
Lois McCloskey, Ann Celi, Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD
May 10, 2021
Newsweek
In the United States, babies are born into a system of well-child care—a series of planned health care visits designed to protect their health from day one through age six. But no such system exists for their mothers. How do we create a system of health care for mothers that mirrors well-child care?
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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The Postal Service, Election Security, Reducing Child Deaths: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 26, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the role of the U.S. Postal Service, preparing for the presidential election, reducing child deaths in Nigeria, and more.
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