Modern Biosurveillance Methods
Researchers explain how current and emerging nucleic acid biosurveillance techniques work, describe their capabilities and limitations, and discuss the promise of emerging technologies.
Sep 16, 2024
Public Health Systems and Security
The continued strain of chronic disease, the acute effects of infectious diseases like COVID-19, pressures on the health system from climate change and inequality, and the rapid modernization of health technologies and systems, reveal new questions and opportunities for public health.
RAND brings together expertise in public health systems, biosecurity and biotechnology, pandemic response, climate and health, and health practice to
- develop and evaluate global, national, and local strategy
- test novel solutions in health surveillance
- examine the interdependencies among actors and policy levers to strengthen the future public health system.
Key questions we seek to answer include
- How should the United States organize the future public health system to effectively produce health and mitigate disease?
- What are the most effective ways to design the system and the policies to support public health and address overlapping, acute, and chronic health issues?
- How can technology and public-private sector partnerships be better leveraged and/or aligned to realize health security in the United States and globally?
Featured Report
Public Health Systems
Global Health Security
Biosurveillance and Other Public Health Monitoring
Pandemic and Other Disaster Health Response
Researchers
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Edward W. Chan
Senior Operations Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Henry H. Willis
Associate Director for Biosecurity Research, RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology; Senior Policy Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Laura J. Faherty
Senior Physician Policy Researcher, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Angela O'Mahony
Chair, RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee, Senior Political Scientist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Joie D. Acosta
Senior Behavioral/Social Scientist
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Laurie T. Martin
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Linnea Warren May
Policy Researcher
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Anita Chandra
Distinguished Chair in American Social Policy; Senior Principal Policy Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Sana Zakaria
Director, Emerging Technology and Resilience, RAND Europe
