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Dec 1, 2025

Strategies to Improve Detection of Novel Pandemic Pathogens: Cost Versus Detection Performance for Promising Pathogen-Agnostic Detection Workflows

To inform decisions that enable the next generation of biosurveillance systems to rapidly detect outbreaks of novel pathogens, the authors evaluated the cost and detection performance of three promising pathogen-agnostic detection strategies.
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Nov 25, 2025

Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models

The authors evaluate the most-capable artificial intelligence (AI) models (as of May 2025) against eight knowledge benchmarks to determine the degree to which frontier AI models pose a risk of helping bad actors create biological or chemical weapons.
Research

Nov 6, 2025

U.S. Adults’ Perceptions of Six Possible Global Threats and Hazards

This report presents U.S. adults’ perceptions of risks of six possible global catastrophes: harms from artificial intelligence, asteroids and comets hitting Earth, severe changes to Earth’s climate, nuclear war, severe pandemics, and supervolcanoes.
Project

Oct 23, 2025

Assessment of medical countermeasures-related actions and interventions

RAND Europe is helping address the EU's need for information on the availability, supply chains and shortage prevention mechanisms for medical countermeasures (MCMs).
Expert Insights

Sep 30, 2025

Fire and Our Future: Results from RAND Workshop on Envisioning Interactions with the Built Environment, Utilities, and Health Systems in 2075

Researchers from RAND and outside partners brought together big-picture, future-focused thinkers and influencers to understand the broad future of wildland fire and how seemingly disparate parts of society might interact with it.
Research

Sep 2, 2025

Public Health Readiness for Citizen Science: Health Department Experiences

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of US health departments with citizen science.
Research

Jul 30, 2025

Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response for AI Loss of Control Incidents

This report focuses on understanding and addressing AI loss of control (LOC) scenarios where human oversight fails to adequately constrain an autonomous, general-purpose AI.
Research

Jul 30, 2025

Building Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Capabilities Through Disaster Citizen Science: Perspectives From Local Health Department, Academic, and Community Representatives

We examined how health departments and community-based organizations have used citizen science to build public health preparedness and response capabilities. The purpose of this study is to help LHDs make use of citizen science to support PHEPRR.
Expert Insights

Jul 30, 2025

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the risks: Evidence submission by RAND Europe

This document provides RAND Europe’s submission of evidence in relation to the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s Call for Evidence on the risks associated with antimicrobial resistance.
Expert Insights

Jun 30, 2025

Data and AI-Enabled Biological Design: Risks Related to Biological Training Data and Opportunities for Governance

The authors of this paper assess the link between biological data and the capabilities of artificial intelligence models trained on large volumes of biological data, then recommend strategies to limit such potentially dangerous capabilities.
Research

Jun 26, 2025

The Incident Management Measurement Tool (IMMT): A Tool for Measuring Public Health Incident Management During and After Emergencies

Risks and priorities change during the management of public health incidents. We describe a new tool, the Incident Management Measurement Tool, that can be used to inform midcourse corrections during public health emergencies and realistic exercises.
Commentary

Jun 6, 2025

The Pandemic Accord's Dangerous Blind Spot: Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity

The fight to stop the next pandemic may well be underway in the sleek, sterile halls of a growing number of biological high-containment laboratories. As these laboratories host crucial research on deadly viruses, true biosafety and biosecurity remain elusive.

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Fire and Our Future: Results from RAND Workshop on Envisioning Interactions with the Built Environment, Utilities, and Health Systems in 2075

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Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response for AI Loss of Control Incidents

Building Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Capabilities Through Disaster Citizen Science: Perspectives From Local Health Department, Academic, and Community Representatives

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the risks: Evidence submission by RAND Europe

Data and AI-Enabled Biological Design: Risks Related to Biological Training Data and Opportunities for Governance

The Incident Management Measurement Tool (IMMT): A Tool for Measuring Public Health Incident Management During and After Emergencies

The Pandemic Accord's Dangerous Blind Spot: Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity

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