RAND Review

January-February 2017

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2017

This issue highlights ways that RAND researchers on the ground in Uganda are having a measurable impact on the lives of men and women struggling with HIV and depression. The issue also features a tribute to the late economist Charles Wolf Jr.

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RAND Review

January-February 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

The cover story on the "Internet of Bodies" highlights the perils of devices that track personal health data and provide medical treatment. Other columns explore vaccine hesitancy, the high price of insulin in the U.S., and social justice in America.

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RAND Review

January-February 2022

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2022

The cover story highlights the risks of geoengineering—the large-scale manipulation of environmental processes to control climate. The Q&A with Jacqueline Burns sheds light on how her military experience informs her approach to research and analysis.

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RAND Review

July-August 2016

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2016

This issue highlights the stress of military deployments and resilience of military families; RAND research on cybercrime, network defense, and data breaches; the 40th anniversary of RAND’s landmark Health Insurance Experiment; and more.

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RAND Review

July-August 2017

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2017

This issue highlights recent RAND research on the prevalence and burden of chronic health conditions; on the economic benefits of U.S. overseas security commitments; and on what RAND is doing to anticipate emerging global security challenges.

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RAND Review

July-August 2018

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2018

This issue spotlights RAND’s Gun Policy in America initiative and RAND’s evaluation of Housing for Health, a Los Angeles County program that has moved some of its most chronically homeless and vulnerable residents into permanent housing.

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RAND Review

July-August 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

One feature highlights how researchers apply an equity lens to projects on environmental racism, incarcerated parents, and the lives of Black service members; a second describes interventions to address disparities in infant mortality rates.

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RAND Review

March-April 2017

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2017

This issue highlights RAND research on the significant toll that poor sleep takes on society; ways to maximize benefits of investments in electricity infrastructure; social determinants of health; and RAND’s new office in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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RAND Review

March-April 2018

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2018

This issue features a Q&A with Michael Rich, Soledad O’Brien, and Francis Fukuyama on the perils of truth decay, and a story on the trend toward unretirement among U.S. workers. The Voices column features Gulrez Shah Azhar on environmental refugees.

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RAND Review

March-April 2019

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2019

This issue explores resilience and adaptation strategies researchers can pursue to address the impacts of climate change; security challenges posed by artificial intelligence and the speed at which technology is transforming society; and more.

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RAND Review

March-April 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

The cover story highlights research on improving the police response to homelessness; a second feature focuses on the millions of caregivers who provide support services to chronically ill loved ones but are not integrated into health care teams.

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RAND Review

March-April 2022

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2022

The cover story describes a yearlong study of a group of military veterans experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Other features examine the global digital skills gap and the magnitude and sources of disagreement among gun policy experts.

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RAND Review

May-June 2017

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2017

This issue highlights recent RAND research on suicide prevention; on the scope of the humanitarian and security crisis in the Mediterranean region; and on what RAND is doing to improve the security and well-being of people throughout the Middle East.

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RAND Review

May-June 2018

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2018

This issue features research on preventing child abuse and neglect and improving outcomes for children in the U.S. child-welfare system; a look back on RAND’s 70 years of innovation; and an exploration of the human side of artificial intelligence.

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RAND Review

May-June 2019

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2019

This issue describes RAND research efforts to help schoolkids suffering from trauma; to help health care providers get better, more meaningful feedback; and to use technology to improve the lives of displaced people throughout the world.

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RAND Review

May-June 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

The cover story highlights the value of invention, analyzing the economic and social impacts of winners of the Lemelson-MIT Prize. A second feature focuses on human rights abuses against ethnic Uyghurs in China and what we know from satellite images.

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RAND Review

November-December 2016

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2016

This issue highlights the policy issues facing the next U.S. president; the problem of food, energy, and water scarcity throughout the world; and the connection between violence against women and murder.

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RAND Review

November-December 2017

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2017

This issue highlights recent RAND research on post-9/11 military caregivers; RAND-Lex, a computer program built at RAND that can analyze huge data sets of text; and the implications of climate change on Arctic cooperation.

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RAND Review

November-December 2019

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2019

This issue spotlights research on veteran suicide; liability implications of driverless cars; and new approaches to improving the post-incarceration experience. The Giving column highlights a million-dollar gift to fund research on homeless veterans.

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RAND Review

November-December 2020

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2020

Features explore the challenge of delivering effective treatments for veterans with co-occuring disorders; teachers, students, and the importance of civic responsibility in present-day America; and teaching and learning in the age of COVID-19.

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RAND Review

November-December 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

The cover story highlights how RAND is helping to redefine high-quality care for service members with a TBI or PTSD. The Q&A with two Marines who work at RAND sheds light on how their military service informs their research and analysis.

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RAND Review

September-October 2016

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2016

This issue highlights transgender personnel in the U.S. military; promising evidence on personalized learning in U.S. classrooms; a Q&A on gaming and public policy; excerpts from John Lewis’ Pardee RAND commencement address, and more.

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RAND Review

September-October 2018

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2018

This issue spotlights RAND’s research on social and emotional learning; workforce development in Appalachia; and the effects of marijuana ads on adolescents and young adults.

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RAND Review

September-October 2019

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2019

This issue spotlights a wargame designed for young women interested in national security; ethics in scientific research, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning; and community citizen science.

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RAND Review

September-October 2020

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2020

Feature stories explore how Pardee RAND is shaping the future of public policy through its Faculty Leaders Program; the safety and sustainability of the U.S. blood supply; and how telemedicine is changing the delivery of health care.

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RAND Review

September-October 2021

The RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation, 2021

The cover story highlights strategies to mitigate homegrown terrorism and ideologically inspired violence in the U.S. A second feature describes Costa Rica’s ambitious decarbonization plan and its implications for nations around the world.

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Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

Jennifer Sloan McCombs

RAND Corporation, 2014

The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

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Recommendations for Improving the Recruiting and Hiring of Los Angeles Firefighters

Chaitra M. Hardison

RAND Corporation, 2015

Reviews the Los Angeles Fire Department’s hiring practices as of June 2014 and outlines a recommended new firefighter hiring process that is intended to increase efficiency of the hiring process, bolster the evidence supporting the validity of it, and make it more transparent and inclusive.

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Recommended Standards for Delivering High-Quality Care to Veterans with Invisible Wounds

Carrie M. Farmer

RAND Corporation, 2022

The authors identified ten standards for the delivery of high-quality care for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, substance use disorders, and mild traumatic brain injury. They also provide considerations for implementing and disseminating these standards as a first step to improve access to high-quality care for veterans with invisible wounds.

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Redefining Health Care Systems

Robert H. Brook

RAND Corporation, 2015

This book provides a scientific and personal perspective on health services research over the last half-century. Its essays and commentaries suggest how that science base, constructed over decades of sustained effort, can stimulate innovative thinking about ways to make health care systems safer, more efficient, more cost-effective, and more patient-centered.

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Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care

Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value

Steven Garber

RAND Corporation, 2014

New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and (2) ensure that new medical products that increase spending are accompanied by health benefits that are worth the spending increases.

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Rethinking Coordination of Services to Refugees in Urban Areas

Managing the Crisis in Jordan and Lebanon

Shelly Culbertson

RAND Corporation, 2016

This study analyzes coordination of international and national entities managing the Syrian refugee response in urban areas in Jordan and Lebanon and provides recommendations on improving coordination strategies and practices. It presents a new framework for planning, evaluating, and managing refugee crises in urban settings, both in the Syrian refugee crisis as well as other such situations going forward.

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Rolling Back the Islamic State

Seth G. Jones

RAND Corporation, 2017

The Islamic State has lost substantial amounts of territory but continues to conduct and inspire attacks around the world. This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State or other Salafi-jihadist groups.

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Russia and the West After the Ukrainian Crisis

European Vulnerabilities to Russian Pressures

F. Stephen Larrabee

RAND Corporation, 2017

Given Russia’s annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in eastern Ukraine, Europe must reassess its approach to a regional security environment previously thought to be stable and relatively benign. This report analyzes the vulnerability of European states to possible forms of Russian influence, pressure, and intimidation and examines four areas of potential European vulnerability: military, trade and investment, energy, and politics.

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Russian Grand Strategy

Rhetoric and Reality

Samuel Charap

RAND Corporation, 2021

Understanding Russia’s grand strategy can help U.S. decisionmakers assess the depth and nature of potential conflicts between Russia and the United States and avoid strategic surprise by better-anticipating Moscow’s actions and reactions. The authors of this report review Russia’s declared grand strategy, evaluate the extent to which Russian behavior is consistent with stated strategy, and outline implications for the United States.

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Russian Social Media Influence

Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

Todd C. Helmus

RAND Corporation, 2018

Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign against former Soviet states that includes news tweets, nonattributed comments on web pages, troll and bot social media accounts, and fake hashtag and Twitter campaigns. Nowhere is this threat more tangible than in Ukraine. Researchers analyzed social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering this campaign.

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Russian Views of the International Order

Andrew Radin, Andrew

RAND Corporation, 2017

In this report, RAND researchers analyze Russian core interests and views of the international order. The authors find that Russia sees the current international order as dominated by the United States and as a threat to some of Russia’s interests. For several areas, U.S. and Russian interests overlap and cooperation is feasible. In other areas, U.S. and Russian interests conflict, and this report offers options for U.S. policy going forward.

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Russia's Hostile Measures

Understanding the Threat

Cohen

RAND Corporation, 2019

This report examines current Russian hostile measures in Europe and forecasts how Russia might threaten Europe using these measures over the next few years. This report observes that Russia has the most strategic interest in influencing western Europe, but it has the most leverage over countries of eastern Europe, and offers a range of recommendations for the U.S. government and for the U.S. Army on countering hostile measures.

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Russia's Military Interventions

Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Samuel Charap

RAND Corporation, 2021

Despite Russia’s relatively small global economic footprint, it has engaged in more interventions than any other U.S. competitor since the end of the Cold War. In this report, the authors assess when, where, and why Russia conducts military interventions by analyzing the 25 interventions that Russia has undertaken since 1991, including detailed case studies of the 2008 Russia-Georgia War and Moscow’s involvement in the ongoing Syrian civil war.

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