Published Research

Report

Holistic early education and care: Policy and practice in France 2017-2021

The report presents an overview of holistic early childhood education and care policy and practice in France between 2017-2021, including an analysis of broader societal, political and research trends regarding early childhood development.

Lillian Flemons, Emma Louise Blondes, Sarah Grand-Clement, Tor Richardson-Golinski, Victoria Jordan

Journal Article

Restructuring Personal Networks with a Motivational Interviewing Social Network Intervention to Assist the Transition Out of Homelessness: A Randomized Control Pilot Study

This study is the first pilot test of a Social Network Intervention (MI-SNI) customized for assisting the transition out of homelessness to test for personal network changes.

David P. Kennedy, Karen Chan Osilla, Sarah B. Hunter, Daniela Golinelli, Ervant J. Maksabedian Hernandez, Joan S. Tucker

Journal Article

Use of Telehealth Across Pediatric Subspecialties Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this cohort study, 8 large pediatric medical groups in California collaborated to share aggregate data on telehealth use for 11 pediatric subspecialties from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021.

Lori Uscher-Pines, Colleen M. McCullough, Michael Dworsky, Jessica L. Sousa, Zachary Predmore, Kristin Ray, Anthony Magit, Chris Rivanis, Carlos F. Lerner, Joy Iwakoshi, Steven Barkley, James P. Marcin, Troy McGuire, Michael-Anne Browne, Craig Swanson, John Patrick Cleary, Erin Kelly, Katie Layton, Lucy B. Schulson

Journal Article

Perspectives of Patients Receiving Telemedicine Services for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: A Qualitative Analysis of User Experiences

We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 adults receiving care from one fully virtual opioid use disorder telemedicine service who had received three to five weeks of treatment.

Jessica L. Sousa, Pushpa Raja, Haiden A. Huskamp, Ateev Mehrotra, Alisa B. Busch, Michael L. Barnett, Lori Uscher-Pines

Journal Article

Information Warfare: Methods to Counter Disinformation

We consider the nature of disinformation and its use in the hybrid warfare domain, before examining the problem through frames of planning approach, truth theory, systems thinking, and military strategy.

Andrew Dowse, Sascha Dov Bachmann

Report

Amplifying the Speakers: Identifying High-Priority Needs for Law Enforcement Public Information Officers

Law enforcement communications staff are crucial to meeting public expectations for transparency and responsiveness to concerns, but little is known about their needs. Researchers held a workshop to identify priorities for improving the profession.

Michael J. D. Vermeer, Jeremy D. Barnum, Siara I. Sitar, Dulani Woods, Brian A. Jackson

Report

Public Health and Soft Power: The Republic of Korea's Initial COVID-19 Response and Its Implications for Health Diplomacy

The Republic of Korea's successful proactive response to the coronavirus 2019 pandemic has received global attention. How might the nation leverage this success to demonstrate soft power and help build a strong alliance for global health security?

Jennifer Bouey, Lynn Hu, Sohaela Amiri, Rafiq Dossani

Report

Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency: Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners

This report presents materials to facilitate more effective and efficient criminal history record information sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, which performs federal background investigations.

Douglas C. Ligor, Shawn D. Bushway, Maria McCollester, Richard H. Donohue, Devon Hill, Marylou Gilbert, Heather Gomez-Bendaña, Daniel Kim, Annie Brothers, Melissa Bauman, Barbara Bicksler, Rick Penn-Kraus, Stephanie J. Walsh

Brochure

What Leaders Need to Know About Talent Management in the U.S. Air Force

RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) tackles difficult questions and generates actionable insights by combining the very best analytical tools and methods with a distinct interdisciplinary approach.

Tool

The Military Demographic Equity Support Tool: A Tool for Helping Decisionmakers Address Disparities in Career Success

The Military Demographic Equity Machine tool enables visualization of racial, ethnic, and gender disparities across military paygrades and examination of the effects of potential mitigation strategies.

David Schulker, Matthew Walsh

Report

Justice Must Go On: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Military Court Operations

This Perspective provides a preliminary examination of how the coronavirus 2019 pandemic affected caseloads in the military justice system and how the system adapted its operations. It also offers several recommendations for possible future actions.

Michelle Grisé, Meghan Ballard, Kirsten M. Keller, Julia Vidal Verástegui

Report

The Promise and Challenges of VA Community Care: Veterans' Issues in Focus

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contracts with private-sector providers to help ensure that eligible veterans receive timely health care. This care can alleviate access barriers for veterans, but questions remain about its cost and quality.

Petra Rasmussen, Carrie M. Farmer

Research Brief

Helping Caregivers Thrive? An Evaluation of a Direct Care Worker Retention Program

The 12-month program, Transformational Healthcare Readiness through Innovative Vocational Education, took a multipronged approach to addressing employment barriers for entry-level health care workers across three health systems from 2019 to 2021.

Julia Rollison, Julia Bandini, Katie Feistel, Allyson D. Gittens, Megan Key, Isabelle González, Weilong Kong, Teague Ruder, Jason Michel Etchegaray

Dissertation

Three Essays on HIV Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

Examines the HIV-related health decisions and investments that are made by people living with HIV as well as the institutions that serve them, and it assesses their indirect effects.

Uzaib Saya

Report

An Evaluation of a Multisite, Health Systems–Based Direct Care Worker Retention Program: Key Findings and Recommendations

A mixed-methods evaluation of a program to help stem the loss of newly hired entry-level caregivers found no positive effect on retention or financial sustainability.

Julia Rollison, Julia Bandini, Katie Feistel, Allyson D. Gittens, Megan Key, Isabelle González, Weilong Kong, Teague Ruder, Jason Michel Etchegaray

Report

Joint Requirements Framework for Collaboration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

To help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plan and assess joint activities, researchers created a framework with a decision aid, a taxonomy, a tool for selecting program types, and recommendations for structuring joint programs for success.

Suzanne Genc, John Matsumura, William Shelton

Commercial Book

Practical Geolocation for Electronic Warfare Using MATLAB

This text explores the practical realities that arise from the employment of geolocation for electronic warfare in real-world systems.

Nicholas A. O'Donoughue

Journal Article

Informality, Violence, and Disaster Risks: Coproducing Inclusive Early Warning and Response Systems in Urban Informal Settlements in Honduras

This research examines the coproduction of early warning systems linked with response capacities for floods and landslides through the case study of work in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with a focus on nine urban informal settlements with high levels of territorial gang violence.

Laura E.R. Peters, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Bernard McCaul, Gabriela Cáceres, Ana Luisa Nuñez, Jay Balagna, Alejandra Lopez, Sonny Patel, Ronak B. Patel, Jamon Van Den Hoek

Journal Article

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2) is proposed as a new capabilities-based framework for assessing threats to thriving and understanding progress in achieving lifelong health and wellbeing.

Neal Halfon, Anita Chandra, Jill S. Cannon, William Gardner, Christopher B. Forrest

Brochure

Research on Training and Development

This document highlights RAND Project AIR FORCE research on training and development. It also highlight examples of RAND research on this topic conducted for the sister services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.