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Commentary
Do Children Really Transmit COVID-19 Less Than Adults? The Evidence Is Questionable
The theory that children are unlikely to contract or spread COVID-19 may feel reassuring, but it's based on flawed science. Until more is known, adopting aggressive strategies to limit viral spread in schools is the best way to keep students and teachers safe.
Aug 31, 2020
Report
Limb Salvage and Recovery After Severe Blast Injury
Although there is a vast literature on limb salvage, there is limited research on military blast-related limb salvage. What can be learned from the evidence and innovations about restoration and reconstruction after limb salvage for severe blast-related limb injury?
Jul 6, 2020
Multimedia
COVID-19 Briefing Series: Catalyzing Solutions for a Changed World
Dean Susan Marquis discusses how the Pardee RAND Graduate School quickly pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic, initiating a series of projects and partnerships to help communities directly respond to the crisis.
Jun 11, 2020
Report
Limb Salvage and Recovery After Blast-Related Injury: Proceedings and Expert Findings from a U.S. Department of Defense International State-of-the-Science Meeting
These conference proceedings summarize findings and recommendations of an expert-led meeting that addressed questions about when to emphasize limb salvage over other treatment options -- such as amputation -- for individuals with blast-related injuries.
Jun 11, 2020
Multimedia
COVID-19 Briefing Series: Evidence for Pandemic Recovery Action
Peter Hussey and Courtney Gidengil discuss how RAND can help rethink and retool our emergency management systems.
Jun 5, 2020
Blog
What Happens When States Reopen, Truth Decay, Telemedicine: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the health and economic consequences of states reopening, the dangers of 'Truth Decay' during the coronavirus crisis, helping refugees, and more.
May 22, 2020
Multimedia
Epidemiological Models and COVID-19
In this Call with the Experts podcast, RAND researchers say new epidemiological models are needed as the country enters a different stage of the COVID-19 crisis, one in which changed behaviors must be taken into account.
May 21, 2020
Commentary
Relaxing COVID-19 Restrictions Presents Stark Choices
RAND's new COVID-19 interventions impact tool uses epidemiological and economic models and continually refreshed data to estimate what could happen as restrictions are eased. The tool won't make the choices confronting state leaders less painful. But it can provide clear, evidence-based estimates of the health and economic trade-offs.
May 18, 2020
Q&A
Reopening America—The Health and Economic Tradeoffs: Q&A with RAND Experts
Local and state officials are thinking through whether, when, and how to lift social-distancing restrictions. We asked three RAND researchers about the complex problem of reopening.
May 4, 2020
News Release
RAND Creates Online Tool to Help State and Local Policymakers Manage Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
A new tool designed to help state and local officials estimate the effects of social distancing and other public health interventions used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has been released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.
May 4, 2020
Tool
New Tool Can Assess the Effects of COVID-19 Interventions
State and local leaders have taken unprecedented measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent health care systems from being overwhelmed. As states plan the way to recovery, a new tool can help them estimate both the public health and economic consequences of imposing or lifting restrictions.
May 4, 2020
Report
Estimating the Economic Costs of Social-Distancing Policies
To support state and local officials making policy decisions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, RAND researchers developed a series of economic models aimed at estimating the economic consequences associated with a small set of social-distancing policies.
May 4, 2020
Multimedia
The Health and Economic Tradeoffs of Reopening America
In this Call with the Experts podcast, RAND researchers consider the health and economic effects of relaxing social distancing restrictions.
May 1, 2020
Commentary
Estimates of COVID-19's Fatality Rate Might Change. And Then Change Again.
With infections of the new coronavirus confirmed in countries around the world, people are following the daily tally of COVID-19 cases, wondering exactly how lethal this new disease is. The truth is, it's hard to know.
Mar 11, 2020
Journal Article
College Attendance Type and Subsequent Alcohol and Marijuana Use in the U.S.
This study examines the associations between college attendance and subsequent alcohol and marijuana use behaviors at multiple ages during young adulthood and adulthood, while rigorously controlling for baseline differences by college type.
Sep 24, 2019
Journal Article
Depression Subtypes in Persons with or at Risk for Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis
Among persons with or at-risk for symptomatic knee OA, there is evidence of depression subtypes characterized by distinct clusters of depressive symptoms that have differential effects on reports of pain and disability overtime.
Jun 14, 2019
Content
Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging
The RAND Summer Institute, an annual conference that addresses critical issues facing our aging population, comprises the Workshop on Aging and the Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists and serves as a vehicle to provide additional training to researchers new to the field of aging.
Jul 13, 2017
Journal Article
The Positive Effects of Population-Based Preferential Sampling in Environmental Epidemiology
This analysis explores an innovative approach to population-based sampling as a way to estimate environmental exposures more reliably.
Jul 6, 2016
Journal Article
Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES).
Feb 17, 2016
Journal Article
Post-sampling Mortality and Non-Response Patterns in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey: Implications for Epidemiological Studies Based on Surveys of Cancer Patients
We examined predictors of post-sampling mortality and non-response among patients initially included in the sampling frame of the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
Jan 20, 2016

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