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Commentary
Oct 1, 2026
Twenty-five years later, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the United States mistook quiet for peace. And it is doing so again.
Sep 8, 2026
Reflecting on 25 years since the September 11 terror attacks, RAND experts answer questions about protecting soft targets, the role of the TSA, mitigating risks from emerging technologies, and more.
Research
Oct 6, 2025
In this report, the authors explore a cost-benefit logic for considering what must be true for the benefits of different approaches to prevention, mitigation, and response to artificial intelligence risks to justify the costs of those approaches.
Jul 30, 2025
As part of an ongoing assessment of the translational impact of World Trade Center (WTC)-related research, we applied the NIEHS translational framework to two case studies: WTC-related research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cancer.
Press
Sep 24, 2024
More than 14 million Americans now provide daily care to wounded, ill, or injured military service members or veterans, with the burden falling heaviest on the 26 percent who assist people aged 60 and under.
Research Summary
The authors compare changes from 2014 to 2024 in the characteristics of those who provide unpaid care to wounded, ill, and injured U.S. service members and veterans and provide recommendations.
In this report related to America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows, the authors provide estimates specific to those providing care to U.S. service members and veterans who served after September 11, 2001.
This summary distills a report that has new estimates of the number of caregiving U.S. adults and describes how those caring for wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans compare with those caring for civilians and with non-caregivers.
The authors produced new estimates of the number of adults caregiving in the United States and investigated how those caring for wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans compare with those caring for civilians and with non-caregivers.
RAND researchers present findings from the qualitative arm of the America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows research project, sharing insights from interviews with U.S. military and veteran caregivers.
Apr 24, 2024
This paper presents a protocol for ongoing scoping reviews of WTC-related health research. Our review will support planning activities by Program policymakers and stakeholders as they work to achieve the Program's research goals.
Oct 26, 2021
In this report, the authors describe the findings and recommendations of a four-year study of the World Trade Center Health Program's research portfolio and its translational impact. Recommendations are designed to help guide Program planning.
