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Preventive Health Care

Journal Article
Examination of Mediators and Moderators to Understand How and in What Context Game Changers Increases HIV Prevention Advocacy Among Persons Living With HIV in Uganda
These findings highlight the importance of helping PLWH cope with self-stigma and gain comfort with disclosure, as well as the potential influence of network support, trustworthiness, connectedness, and stigmatization on engagement in prevention advocacy.
Apr 28, 2021
Dissertation
Dissemination of Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter and Its Countermeasures
Employs state-of-the-art machine learning models to collect the first dataset of vaccine misinformation from Twitter disseminated from January 2018 to April 2019 and proposes plausible actions.
Apr 21, 2021
Blog
COVID-19 Demographic Trends, Vaccinating 'High-Contact' People, the Iran Threat Network: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how the pandemic is shaping demographic trends, targeting vaccines to
Apr 16, 2021
News Release
Liaison and Diversion Services Can Help Vulnerable People in the Criminal Justice System
An NHS England programme aimed at supporting vulnerable people in the criminal justice system may significantly reduce the chances of those with mental and other health needs from receiving custodial sentences.
Apr 12, 2021
Research Brief
Findings from the national evaluation of Liaison and Diversion services in England
An outcome evaluation of the National Model for Liaison and Diversion scheme in England, which identifies and supports people in the criminal justice system with health issues and vulnerabilities, using a novel, large-scale linked data set.
Apr 12, 2021
Report
Outcome Evaluation of the National Model for Liaison and Diversion
An outcome evaluation of the National Model for Liaison and Diversion scheme in England, which identifies and supports people in the criminal justice system with health issues and vulnerabilities, using a novel, large-scale linked data set.
Apr 12, 2021
Commentary
Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?
Vaccine hesitancy appears to be one more hurdle in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC would typically lead a campaign to overcome it, but Americans' trust in the CDC has declined measurably. Health care professionals may be more effective messengers when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.
Apr 9, 2021
Commentary
Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People
Actively seeking out people with lots of contacts for vaccination could bring the epidemic under control much more quickly than vaccinating people at random. Vaccinating just 15 percent of the population would be enough to crush the epidemic—so long as it was the right 15 percent.
Apr 9, 2021
News Release
Public Trust of the Centers for Disease Control Falls During Coronavirus Pandemic
Public trust in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen during the coronavirus pandemic, with the decline bringing overall population-level trust in the agency to the same lower level of trust long held by Black Americans about the agency.
Apr 5, 2021
Report
Trust in the CDC Declined During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From May to October 2020, some Americans lost trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The drop in trust was particularly significant among people who intended to vote for a candidate other than Joe Biden in the 2020 election or did not intend to vote at all. This suggests that views of the CDC are now strongly politicized.
Apr 5, 2021
Blog
Supporting Asian Americans, U.S. Gun Policy, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how to support Asian Americans, the U.S. gun policy debate, the education “arms race,” and more.
Mar 26, 2021
News Release
Use of Common Cancer Screenings Rebounded Quickly After Dropping at Start of the Pandemic
Screenings for breast cancer and colon cancer dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, but use of the procedures returned to near-normal levels by the end of July 2020.
Mar 22, 2021
Blog
Game Theory to Help the Vaccine Rollout, Abraham Accords, Telehealth: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how game theory can help the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, potential economic benefits of the Abraham Accords, telemedicine use during the pandemic, and more.
Mar 19, 2021
Commentary
Could the Bioweapons Treaty Be Another Tool for Addressing Pandemics?
What might governments do to reduce the risk of future large-scale biological attacks or naturally occurring pandemics? Perhaps now is the right time to revisit the 46-year-old Biological Weapons Convention treaty and make it a better tool against future biological threats.
Mar 12, 2021
Commentary
How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle
The health systems behind the vaccine rollout are attempting to create order from chaos, sometimes with mixed results. Rather than relying on on-the-fly decisionmaking, state authorities should consider turning to game theory as a tool that could be the key to more efficient, faster vaccine distribution.
Mar 11, 2021
Journal Article
Modeling Agent Behaviors for Policy Analysis Via Reinforcement Learning
This paper examines the value of reinforcement learning models as adaptive, high-performing, and behaviorally-valid models of agent decision-making in Agent-based Models.
Mar 9, 2021
Blog
Vaccine Hesitancy, Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Military, the Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Black Americans’ vaccine hesitancy, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military, rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, and more.
Mar 5, 2021
Journal Article
Project SLIP: Implementation of a PrEP Screening and Linkage Intervention in Primary Care
The study developed and pilot-tested a PrEP screener for use in primary care clinics to help facilitate PrEP uptake. Findings suggest that brief HIV risk screening in primary care is acceptable, feasible, and shows preliminary effects in increasing PrEP referral rates.
Mar 5, 2021
News Release
Black Americans Report High Levels of Vaccine Hesitancy, Including Among Health Care Workers
Black Americans have a high level of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of COVID-19 vaccines, including among Black health care workers. Those who expressed vaccine hesitancy also showed high levels of overall mistrust in the vaccine, concerns about potential harm and side effects, and lack of confidence in vaccine effectiveness and safety.
Mar 1, 2021
Commentary
Family Caregivers Are the Health Care Workers That Vaccination Plans Overlook
About 53 million family members and friends provide care to loved ones in the United States, representing a critical element of the long-term care system. The pandemic has made family caregivers front-line workers. They can't be left out of important discussions around vaccination priorities and how to minimize the virus's risk to those with compromised health.
Mar 1, 2021

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Mary Avriette

Assistant Policy Researcher and Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School

M. Avriette is a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. She is an active-duty veterinarian in the U.S. Army. Her research interests include national security, developing-nation economics, zoonoses…
Ashley Gromis

Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist

Ashley Gromis (she/her) is an associate behavioral/social scientist whose work examines the roles of networks, place, and policy in shaping community- and population-level health outcomes and social inequality. Her primary research uses agent-based modeling to understand how spatial clustering…

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