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Hyper-Local Strategies Are Working to Promote Vaccination Equity

Jan 28, 2022

The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative, launched in summer 2021, has already made progress in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rates. Hyper-local, community-led strategies are helping to increase vaccine confidence and access for communities that identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Essay

Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science

Jan 4, 2022

Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.

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Essay

Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

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.

Jun 27, 2022
Blog

Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on countering the illegal flow of synthetic opioids, freeing up Ukrainian grain to prevent famine, the importance of defining the metaverse, and more.

Jun 24, 2022
Multimedia

Preparing for California's Edible Food Recovery Mandate: Findings from the Los Angeles Food Recovery Study

Under a new state law, California must significantly reduce organic waste and recover some edible food from going to landfill by 2025. Is Los Angeles County prepared for the new mandate?

Jun 21, 2022
Report

California's Edible Food Recovery Mandate: One Solution for Two Problems

Organic waste in landfills emits 20 percent of California's methane, and about 1.1 million tons of potentially donatable food were discarded in 2018. California's food recovery mandate, Senate Bill 1383, could make an important contribution toward mitigating the climate crisis and food insecurity.

Jun 21, 2022
Announcement

Novel Project Will Create Open Access to Detailed Information About Health and Well-Being for Older Californians

RAND and the Archstone Foundation will build and make publicly available a wide-ranging collection of data about the health and well-being of nearly six million older Californians. The data will aid providers, policymakers, and philanthropists in making smarter decisions.

Jun 14, 2022
Commentary

Camping Bans and Group Shelters Unlikely to Solve Homelessness Crisis

Should Los Angeles continue to direct most resources toward creating permanent housing with services? Or should it try to rapidly add more group shelters and shared tiny homes which would allow the city to enforce camping bans in certain areas? There are compelling arguments for both approaches.

May 23, 2022
Multimedia

RAND Remote: Informing Innovative Policy Solutions to Address L.A.'s Dual Crises

In this RAND Remote conversation, Sarah Hunter, Jason Ward, and Rick Garvey discuss their new report based on survey data collected from unhoused people in three Los Angeles neighborhoods.

May 18, 2022
News Release

Study of Unhoused People in Los Angeles Finds Numbers Growing; Only One-Third Willing to Move into Group Shelters

A unique study conducting counts and surveys of unsheltered people in three parts of Los Angeles found that nearly half had been offered housing in the past, but they cited the housing intake process, desires for privacy, and concerns about safety as obstacles they face in efforts to get off the streets.

May 4, 2022
Report

Less Than One-Third of Unhoused People in L.A. Would Accept a Group Shelter

The number of unsheltered people in Los Angeles is growing. In a new survey in Skid Row, Venice, and Hollywood, most reported being continuously homeless for more than three years. Half had been offered housing, but cited the intake process, desires for privacy, and safety concerns as obstacles.

May 4, 2022
Report

Evaluation of Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's 2020–2021 L.A. Dodgers Mental Health Campaign

This report presents an evaluation of a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers that focuses on early intervention for mental health challenges—an effort specifically aimed at the team's diverse fan base.

Apr 6, 2022
Commentary

How We Might Better Live with Oil in California

As California grapples with the question of balancing environmental stewardship with the recent renewed focus on “local oil,” lawmakers could look to local communities for the best answers to avoid future petro-disasters.

Apr 1, 2022
Commentary

How to Improve Quality of Life in Greater Cambridge: The Perspective of Local Organisational and Community Leaders

The Cambridge, UK, area performs well in different dimensions of quality of life. However real-life experience differs significantly across communities and across measurements.

Mar 31, 2022
Tool

Environmental Racism: A Tool for Exploring the Enduring Legacy of Redlining on Urban Environments

Researchers developed an online tool for visualizing the spatial relationships between the discriminatory practice of redlining and exposure to environmental hazards (e.g., pollution, waste sites).

Mar 31, 2022
Report

Evaluation of Los Angeles County's 2021 WhyWeRise Mental Health Campaign

RAND researchers describe a survey conducted to evaluate the reach and impact of a 2021 Los Angeles County social marketing campaign promoting awareness of county mental health resources and communicating messages of resilience, support, and hope.

Mar 23, 2022
Report

Poor indoor climate: Its impact on health and life satisfaction, as well as its wider socio-economic costs

This study looks at the prevalence of poor indoor climate in Europe, its impact on health and well-being, as well as its wider socio-economic costs.

Mar 22, 2022
Report

Evaluating WhyWeRise 2020 and 2021

WhyWeRise is a social marketing campaign conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. It is focused on prevention of, and early intervention for, mental health challenges among county residents. Surveys suggest that this campaign reached a racially, culturally, and economically diverse group of county residents; fostered a feeling of support among those exposed to the campaign; and boosted residents' awareness of local resources.

Mar 10, 2022
Project

Evaluation of California's Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Initiatives

The RAND Corporation is evaluating California's statewide prevention and early intervention programs, which aim to reduce negative outcomes for people experiencing mental illness.

Mar 1, 2022
Report

Understanding the views of organisational and community leaders on the factors that most affect quality of life in Greater Cambridge

This study aim was to understand the views of organisational and community leaders on the factors that most affect quality of life (QOL) in Greater Cambridge. Personal relationships, health and well-being were key factors affecting QOL in the area.

Mar 1, 2022
Report

Equity Metrics for Climate Adaptation in the Electricity Sector

Social equity has become a key concern among public agencies. The authors developed an illustrative set of context-specific equity metrics that Southern California Edison could build on and incorporate into its ongoing work toward climate adaptation.

Feb 17, 2022
Journal Article

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity Through Transformed Systems for Health

This commentary will describe how the Organizing Committee arrived at the conceptual model, the critical content that the model contains and expresses, and how the model can be used to assess meaningful community engagement.

Feb 15, 2022

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