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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
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Project
Mar 18, 2024
RAND Europe evaluated drug-related corruption threats at Schiphol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam, identifying several vulnerabilities at the mainports.
Report
Mar 14, 2024
This baseline report maps cannabis consumption, the sale of cannabis from tolerated dispensaries (coffeeshops) and the illegal sale of hash and weed in the Netherlands before the introduction of an experiment with a controlled cannabis supply chain.
Mar 12, 2024
The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program serves young people ages 16 to 18 experiencing difficulty in traditional high schools. This report covers the 2022–2023 program year and is the eighth in a series on this quasi-military residential program.
Journal Article
Mar 6, 2024
The experiences and needs of of overdose loss survivors have been overlooked in the clinical and public health response to the overdose crisis. Our findings emphasize the need for research into the prevalence and impact of overdose loss.
Content
The Social and Behavioral Policy program, part of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, conducts research into actions and systems that promote health, and social and economic well-being.
Feb 23, 2024
Introduces a taxonomy for mis-implementation (i.e., poor outcomes from efforts to implement an evidence-based practice) and applies it to three case examples from pragmatic trials of behavioral health treatments in Federally Qualified Health Centers.
News Release
Feb 21, 2024
More than 40 percent of Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose and about one-third of those individuals say their lives were disrupted by the death. While the overdose crisis has had wide-ranging negative impacts on people who use drugs, their employers, and public health systems, little research has explored the experiences of those left behind by fatal drug overdoses.
Commentary
Feb 15, 2024
As school districts use their budgets to deploy AI-based tools for suicide risk detection, it is important to recognize the known problems. More regulation is needed on the federal, state, and local levels, to ensure safeguards are in place to protect students so that this software does not end up doing more harm than good.
Multimedia
Feb 5, 2024
This workshop provides an overview of analytic methods available for state policy evaluation studies, including details on key decision points for an analysis that helps identify which methods are most appropriate for different analytic contexts.
Research Brief
Jan 29, 2024
RAND researchers developed a framework to measure behavioral health treatment bed shortages. They employed this approach in four California-based analyses, the findings of which determined how many beds to build and where to build them.
Jan 25, 2024
RAND Europe and the Centre for Mental Health conducted a process evaluation of the Individual Placement Support trial.
Brochure
Jan 23, 2024
Spotlight 2023–2024 highlights some of the challenges that need urgent policy responses on issues such as AI and emerging tech to strategic trends for defence and security through to improving women's healthcare and tackling illegal drug markets.
