Report
Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era
RAND Australia and the University of Sydney hosted a webinar with health experts from Australia and the United States to discuss recent increases in the use of telehealth.
Oct 18, 2021
Journal Article
Disaster Risk Creation and Cascading Disasters Within Large Technological Systems: COVID-19 and the 2021 Texas Blackouts
Here we describe the 2021 Texas blackouts during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of disaster risk creation and cascading disaster, showing how risk emerges and propagates across large technological systems.
Oct 15, 2021
Brochure
Select RAND Research on the Information Environment: 2014-2020
This volume is an important resource for anyone who is interested in gaining an informed understanding of operations in the information environment.
Oct 7, 2021
Tool
Citizen Science for Disasters: A Guide for Local Health Departments
This toolkit provides guidance to local health departments on engaging with disaster citizen science to support public health preparedness.
Sep 29, 2021
Tool
Citizen Science for Disasters: A Guide for Community Groups
This toolkit provides guidance to community groups on engaging with disaster citizen science to support public health preparedness.
Sep 29, 2021
Report
Building the Best Offensive and Defensive Cyber Workforce: Volume I, Improving U.S. Air Force Training and Development
RAND researchers held discussions with enlisted and civilian cyberwarfare personnel to gather insights into how the U.S. Air Force could revamp cyber training, recruiting, and retention. This volume of the report summarizes training-related findings.
Sep 29, 2021
Report
Building the Best Offensive and Defensive Cyber Workforce: Volume II, Attracting and Retaining Enlisted and Civilian Personnel
To better understand the drivers of attraction to and retention in U.S. Air Force cyber jobs, RAND researchers held focus group discussions with enlisted and civilian cyberwarfare personnel. This report summarizes discussion participants' insights.
Sep 29, 2021
Journal Article
When Disaster Management Agencies Create Disaster Risk: A Case Study of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency
This study is the first to examine disaster risk creation from an organizational perspective, and the first to focus explicitly on how disaster management agencies can shape risk creation.
Sep 28, 2021
Journal Article
Toward an Asthma Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Use in Digital Remote Monitoring
The study sough to develop and test a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for suitability in digital remote asthma symptom monitoring to identify uncontrolled asthma.
Sep 22, 2021
Journal Article
Written Evidence Submitted by RAND Europe: TFP0036 Tech and the Future of UK Foreign Policy
This document is RAND Europe's submission to the UK Parliament's call for evidence on how the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office could support the UK's response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and emerging technologies.
Sep 21, 2021
Research Brief
The Growing Exposure of Air Force Installations to Natural Disasters
Some Department of the Air Force installations face high levels of exposure to flooding, wildfires, or high winds. Twenty installations have areas with high or very high wildfire potential.
Sep 16, 2021
Commentary
Hurricane Ida Is Part of a Cycle of Disasters—Mitigating Their Impact Means Building Back Better
Building back better means focusing on recovery that not only restores damage from a disaster but also reduces future risk. To meet that goal today, we need to look at the ways our disaster preparedness and response systems actually create risk themselves, by reinforcing things like wealth inequality, systemic discrimination, or access to crucial services.
Sep 13, 2021
Research Brief
New Patient-Centered Quality Measures for Office-Based Palliative Care
This research brief describes the development and testing of two patient-centered quality measures of symptom management and communication and provides considerations for palliative care providers that plan to use them.
Sep 13, 2021
Commentary
The Implications for Human Rights in the Digital Age
As society relies more and more on digital technologies, there are growing implications for human rights and individuals' fundamental freedoms—both positive and negative.
Sep 3, 2021
Report
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Feeling Heard and Understood
The authors describe the results of their national beta field test for a performance measure designed to assess the extent to which patients who used ambulatory palliative care felt heard and understood by their palliative care provider and team.
Sep 3, 2021
Report
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Receiving Desired Help for Pain
The authors describe the results of their national beta field test for a performance measure designed to assess the extent to which patients who used ambulatory palliative care received the help they wanted for their pain.
Sep 3, 2021
Report
Developing the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response: An Opportunity to Reduce Risk and Impacts of Future Spills in Freshwater
In 2016, Congress directed the U.S. Coast Guard to establish the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response. This report makes recommendations for the center, its staffing, potential partnerships, and location.
Aug 31, 2021
Tool
The Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame: Rulebook
This document presents the full ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provide training for aspects of operations in the information environment.
Aug 24, 2021
Journal Article
5G Supply Market Trends: Executive Summary and Final Report
The study provides an analysis of plausible developments of the 5G equipment and services supply market looking to 2030.
Aug 20, 2021
Report
Aligning Roles and Missions for Future Multidomain Warfare
The formal decisions, documents, and events that established the roles, missions, and functions (RMF) of the U.S. Department of Defense and the military services in the early postwar years are over 70 years old. Is the existing RMF framework fundamentally sound, requiring only modest adjustments?
Aug 19, 2021