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Catalyzing Solutions for a Changed World

The Pardee RAND Graduate School is a vital platform for catalyzing new solutions for a fundamentally changed world. In this briefing, Susan Marquis discusses how the graduate school quickly pivoted, initiating a series of projects and partnerships to help communities directly respond to the COVID-19 crisis. She talks about ways Pardee RAND students and leaders are leveraging the school’s new capabilities, including the Tech and Narrative Lab, community partnerships, and policy design studios, to help decisionmakers confront the pandemic head on.

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Profs: Blueprint Needed for a Post-Vaccine World
When a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, many in rich countries may be able to afford it while the poor and uninsured may not. In poor countries, most people won't be able to pay. Professors Krishna Kumar and Chris Nelson say the time to plan for equitable access, financing, intellectual property rights, and global production is now.
May 11, 2020
Krishna B. Kumar, Mahshid Abir, et al.
Students Offer Hospitals Critical Care Surge Capacity Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Karishma Patel (cohort '17) and Hamad Al Ibrahim ('18) worked with RAND researchers to present methods for creating critical care surge capacity in hospitals to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 5, 2020
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