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Journal Article
How Much Can You Trust the Results of This Health Policy Evaluation: A Pragmatic Guide for State Policymakers
This Perspective is intended to help policymakers and other stakeholders assess policy evaluation studies, with a focus on health policy studies at the state level.
Mar 15, 2023
Journal Article
A New Ethical Principle for Analysts Who Use Models
Analysts have long embraced the ethic of revealing assumptions that underlie their conclusions. Analysts should preemptively explain how their conclusions vary with changes of important assumptions reflecting uncertainties and disagreements.
Mar 3, 2023
Blog
The War in Ukraine, Software Supply Chain Risk, 'Hacking Equity': RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on lessons about defense strategy from the war in Ukraine, U.S.-France cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, software supply chain risk, and more.
Feb 3, 2023
Journal Article
Barriers to Using Clinical Decision Support in Ambulatory Care: Do Clinics in Health Systems Fare Better?
We quantify the use of clinical decision support (CDS) and the specific barriers reported by ambulatory clinics and examine whether CDS utilization and barriers differed based on clinics' affiliation with health systems.
Jan 27, 2023
Brochure
RAND: 75 Years of Making a Difference
To commemorate its 75th anniversary, RAND took a closer look at some of its most influential research. The selections in this volume demonstrate RAND's positive—and enduring—contributions in addressing some of the world's most challenging problems.
Jan 19, 2023
Dissertation
Robust Decision Making in Health Policy: Applications to COVID-19 and Colorectal Cancer
Presents three papers exploring the utility of Robust Decision Making for supporting health policy decisions.
Dec 22, 2022
Commentary
California's Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn't Been Future-Proofed
California has an ambitious blueprint to make the state carbon-neutral by 2045. But there's been no integrated stress test of the whole plan. The state needs and deserves a future-proofed, stress-tested plan that all Californians can trust to achieve its climate goals.
Dec 15, 2022
Report
An Enterprise Cost-Effectiveness Approach to Decisionmaking: Improving Analytic Support to Senior Defense Leaders
The authors propose analytic and programmatic frameworks to explore potential cost-per-effect measures, assess those measures with an enterprise cost-effectiveness approach, and chart a roadmap to add a joint focus in future Air Force decisionmaking.
Dec 5, 2022
Journal Article
Documenting the Modeling Process with a Standardized Data Structure Described and Implemented in DynamicVu
This article proposes a data structure and its methods for documenting the process of building a simulation model.
Dec 1, 2022
Journal Article
Rigorously Interpreted Quotation Analysis for Evaluating Causal Loop Diagrams in Late-Stage Conceptualization
This article describes a formal method for evaluating a causal loop diagram (CLD) in late-stage conceptualization—referred to as rigorously interpreted quotation analysis—and illustrates its application in a case study.
Dec 1, 2022
Commentary
Ukraine's Lessons for the Future of Hybrid Warfare
A new decision-analysis approach is necessary to capture the use of disinformation in the context of hybrid warfare. Multiple tools must be integrated to help generate a robust policy response to modern hybrid threats.
Nov 28, 2022
Report
The role of evidence in occupational safety and health
This study aimed to explore and identify globally: (i) what types of evidence are produced, shared and used, and by whom, and (ii) how OSH decisions are informed and the role evidence plays in this process.
Nov 23, 2022
Report
Machine Learning in Public Policy
Machine learning (ML) can have a significant impact on public policy by modeling complex relationships and augmenting human decisionmaking. But overconfidence in results and incorrectly interpreted algorithms can lead to peril. With interpretability, ML can achieve its promise of more-equitable policy decisions.
Nov 15, 2022
Report
National Security Decisionmaking Processes in Israel: Persistent Flaws and How to Amend Them
In this Perspective, the author examines the inherent flaws in the function of key Israeli decisionmaking entities and in the process as a whole, their underlying causes, and potential avenues to improve the decisionmaking apparatus.
Nov 15, 2022
Report
How China Might React to Shifting U.S. Posture in the Indo-Pacific
As the U.S. military weighs posture enhancements in the Indo-Pacific to counter China's military development and influence, understanding how China is likely to react to these changes is critical. A new framework offers key factors that U.S. policymakers and military planners should consider.
Oct 25, 2022
Dissertation
A Proposed Decision Framework for DoD Investment in Nuclear Energy Technology: Focused on Microreactors at DoD Locations in the U.S.
Proposes a decision framework to help DoD decisionmakers determine whether an investment in nuclear energy technologies is worthwhile.
Oct 5, 2022
Journal Article
Brief Cost Analysis of Surgical Personal Protective Equipment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study aimed to compare the costs incurred and saved from universal use of N95 respirators with surgical masks for operating room providers in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sep 15, 2022
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.
Sep 6, 2022
Research Brief
Evaluating the Use of Non-Lethal Weapons in Operational Environments
This brief summarizes a RAND-developed methodology to evaluate the impact of non-lethal weapons in a way that better informs Department of Defense decisions about their development, integration into military forces, and use in diverse contexts.
Aug 5, 2022
Brochure
RAND Standards for High-Quality and Objective Research and Analysis
This brochure describes RAND's standards for high-quality and objective research.
Jul 25, 2022

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RAND Topic:
Decisionmaking

Topic Synonyms:
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Decision Analysis;
Decision Making

Researcher Spotlight

Linnea Warren May

Associate Policy Researcher

Linnea Warren May (she/her) is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She has worked on projects related to building a culture of health, city resilience planning, integrating data to assess well-being and social equity, workforce development, patient experience with health…
Weilong Kong

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Weilong (David) Kong is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he was a senior public administrative analyst at the Luskin Center for Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he…

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