Lonsdale, Ling Join RAND Europe Evaluation and Performance Audit Research Practice
RAND Europe is delighted to announce the appointments of Jeremy Lonsdale and Tom Ling, both in the role of Senior Research Leader. Lonsdale and Ling will add vast experience and expertise to RAND Europe's current Evaluation and Performance Audit research practice. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - September 29, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Developing Key Indicators for Adaptive Water Planning
Current approaches to water planning make it difficult for water agencies to craft flexible and robust plans to guide resource allocation and facilitate discussions with constituents and ratepayers. An innovative effort by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California seeks to address these challenges. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - September 16, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
The Alumni Impact Fund: Expanding the Reach of RAND Research
How do we turn more of the problems we face together into solutions we arrive at together? RAND's president, Michael Rich, believes the answer lies in ensuring that our insights become better known, better appreciated, and more widely used. Last December, he created the Alumni Impact Fund to give all alumni an opportunity to extend the reach and impact of RAND analysis on issues of critical importance. Because we reached our $100,000 goal by June 30, each and every alumni donor had the chance to vote on the research projects the impact fund will support. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - September 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Book Offers Expert Overview of Choice Modelling
Choice modelling is a key tool for the understanding of behaviour and is used to support decision-making in fields such as transportation, health economics, environmental analysis and marketing. The Handbook of Choice Modelling — edited by Andrew Daly and composed of contributions from Daly, Peter Burge, and other senior figures in the field — provides an authoritative and in-depth overview of the essential topics related to choice modelling. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - September 8, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Brian Michael Jenkins Joins Elite Panel on Domestic Intelligence Gathering
Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the RAND president and an expert on transportation security and terrorism, has joined the “Blue Ribbon Panel,” which will preside over work by a Business Executives for National Security task force to determine whether post-9/11 reforms have kept pace with evolving threats to homeland security. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - August 26, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Pardee RAND Promotes Diversity in Public Policy Through Summer Faculty Workshop
The Pardee RAND summer faculty workshop aims to help scholars who teach at historically black colleges and universities strengthen their approach to research and bring new analytic thinking, tools, and practices back to their students, inspiring them to pursue graduate education and careers in public policy. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - August 20, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Accenture Institute Conversations: Rebecca Schindler on the Internet of Things
While the Internet of Things promises significant benefits to society, it also poses considerable legal, ethical and technological challenges. Helen Rebecca Schindler discusses how society, business and the economy will be affected by the IoT in an interview included in Accenture's Institute Conversation series. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - August 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
RAND to Study Marijuana Legalization in Vermont
Researchers from RAND will study the issues related to potentially legalizing the production, distribution, and possession of marijuana in Vermont. Beau Kilmer met with state Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding and other officials this week to discuss the study. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - July 23, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Feinberg Details Compensation Program for GM Victims
CCRMC Advisory Board chair Kenneth Feinberg, who has been named to oversee the compensation fund for deaths and injuries resulting from accidents tied to a defective ignition switch in General Motors vehicles, presented the details of that compensation program on June 30, 2014. Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, notes that while Feinberg finds the process "agonizing," he views it as an important public service. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - July 1, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Jones Named Head of International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND
Seth Jones, a specialist in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism research, has been named director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - June 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Sen. Elizabeth Dole Urges Graduates to Use Storytelling to Advance Policy
Facts and objective analysis are important, but for policy analysts to make a difference in the real world they also have to be able to tell a story, former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole said at the June 21 Pardee RAND Graduate School commencement. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - June 24, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Cazier Gift to Pardee RAND Graduate School Launches Environmental and Energy Sustainability Initiative
A $5 million gift from engineer and philanthropist John M. Cazier will turbocharge research in environmental and energy sustainability at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - June 20, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Jeremy R. Azrael Scholarship Supports Students from Former Soviet States
Jeremy Azrael was an expert on the Russian economy who devoted his career to promoting better understanding between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. A scholarship in his name supports a first-year Pardee RAND Graduate School student from a former Soviet state. (Source: RAND Announcements)
Source: RAND Announcements - June 19, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
Interacting with Autism – Video Series
RAND Researchers from the Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center are part of a team of experts consulting on a series of videos about autism spectrum disorders being produced by the University of Southern California's School of Cinema. The videos and related website, Interacting with Autism, are designed to help autistic individuals, their families, health care providers, and educators make informed choices in recommending and pursuing the most effective approaches for specific individuals diagnosed with autism. Mark Harris, the executive producer of the series, is a three-time Oscar winner for best documentary...
Source: RAND Announcements - June 6, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: news
