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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
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
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
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
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
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
Journal Article

Opportunities and Challenges for Quality and Safety Applications in ICD-11: An International Survey of Users of Coded Health Data

This study identifies opportunities and challenges in improving the utility of the International Classification of Diseases (11th revision) for quality and safety applications.

Jan 5, 2016
Journal Article

Evidence for the Convergence Model: The Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Viet Nam

This study examines a model of the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 based on suspected convergence factors that are mainly associated with land-use change.

Nov 13, 2015
Research Brief

Rare, Nonaggressive Form of Lymphoma Linked to Breast Implants: An Update

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma is a rare, nonaggressive cancer that can be treated by removal of the implant and surrounding capsule. Research is needed to identify risk factors; a patient registry would aid this process.

Feb 23, 2015
Commentary

An Outbreak of Outbreaks

Lately, stories about outbreaks seem to be spreading faster than the diseases themselves. An outbreak of measles in Ohio is just part of an 18-year high of U.S. cases. Meanwhile, polio continues to circulate in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, while spreading to other countries.

Jun 11, 2014
Journal Article

Examining Physical Function and Mortality of Aging Taiwanese

The Survey of Health and Living Status of the Middle-Aged and Elderly in Taiwan measured difficulty with one or more of seven physical functions. A group-based trajectory model identified common trajectories.

Mar 1, 2014

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Mary Ellen Slaughter

Senior Statistical Analyst

Mary Ellen Slaughter is a statistical analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has extensive experience in many different types of regression analyses including survival analysis, mixed effects modeling, and trajectory analysis and has worked on numerous health policy projects in the past ten years.…
Nancy Kaczynski Pollock

Director of Operations and Business Strategy, RAND National Security Research Division

Nancy Pollock is Director of Operations for the National Security Research Division. In this role, she is responsible for the division's business management, as well as financial and operational functions. She is also responsible for strategic business engagements across a wide breadth of NSRD…

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