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Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Zatyra Rousseau high-fives a child during the 2018 Veterans Day Parade in New York City, Nov. 11, 2018.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Zatyra Rousseau high-fives a child during the 2018 Veterans Day Parade in New York City, Nov. 11, 2018.

Photo by Chief Petty Officer Roger Duncan / Department of Defense

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We provide data-driven public policy research services to our clients. RAND research funding comes from a variety of sources, and we disseminate the results of our work as broadly as possible to benefit the public good. Our interdisciplinary research approach is enhanced by several capabilities that maximize the reach and impact of our studies and provide value to our sponsors:

  • Primary data collection
  • Customized data curation and analysis
  • Objective program and policy evaluation
  • Strategic communication and outreach

If your organization is interested in sponsoring a research study or exploring outreach partnerships, contact the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute.

Use Our Research Tools

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    Content

    Veterans' Data in Focus

    A collection of infographics focused on veterans’ social, economic, and physical well-being can be used to shape policies and interventions that address veterans’ needs, close gaps in support, and foster better understanding of the veteran population and their families.

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    Getting To Outcomes® (GTO) Toolkit

    The Getting To Outcomes®: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention project assesses the effectiveness of participatory methods meant to assist community coalitions in preventing substance abuse and to improve community health.

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    RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit

    The RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit translates scientific research on suicide prevention to help program staff assess whether their programs produce beneficial effects and identify needed improvements.

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    A Program Manager's Guide for Program Improvement in Ongoing Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Programs: The RAND Toolkit

    The RAND Program Manager's Guide is a tool to help assess program performance, consider options for improvement, implement solutions, then assess how well the changes worked, with the intention of helping those responsible for managing or implementing programs.

Research Integrity at RAND

RAND’s mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis is enabled through our core values of quality and objectivity and our unwavering commitment to the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior. To help ensure our research and analysis are rigorous, objective, and nonpartisan, we

  • subject our research publications to a robust and exacting quality-assurance process
  • avoid both the appearance and reality of financial and other conflicts of interest through staff training, project screening, and a policy of mandatory disclosure
  • pursue transparency in our research engagements through our commitment to the open publication of our research findings and recommendations, disclosure of the source of funding of published research, and policies to ensure intellectual independence.
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