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Oct 1, 2025
RAND partners with universities and public institutions to identify priorities and deliver evidence-based solutions for rural, remote, and Indigenous communities nationwide.
Commentary
Sep 22, 2025
RAND's Melanie Zaber studies everything from the rise of AI to apprenticeship programs in rural Appalachia. Her goal is straightforward: to help more Americans find meaningful work and a path to the middle class.
Research
Sep 17, 2025
We aimed to understand how interventions could be modified to be status-neutral (for people with and without HIV) for national dissemination in community-based settings.
Sep 15, 2025
This is a dataset of responses to surveys conducted in 2022 of adult residents residing in the coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico regarding a broad range of topics including living conditions, neighborhood satisfaction and safety, and social cohesion.
Sep 12, 2025
This study examined how social-built environmental factors were associated with pandemic-related disruptions and loneliness among respondents from the third wave of the Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf.
Sep 8, 2025
This study examined the size and sources of racial and ethnic disparities in charging decisions, pretrial detention decisions, and case dispositions in Harris County, Texas. These findings were used to make recommendations on mitigating disparities.
Sep 5, 2025
In this dissertation, the author examines how policy changes in three government health programs affect access to care across different settings.
Sep 2, 2025
Hospice professionals, chaplains, clergy, and policymakers need to understand factors influencing spiritual care of African American hospice patients to advance equitable end-of-life and hospice care.
Aug 25, 2025
Decision-support systems can help decision makers evaluate response strategies before an urban drinking water supply crisis occurs. The experiences of five cities that have dealt with a drought-induced crisis are discussed in this article.
Video
Jul 29, 2025
In this webinar recording, RAND and Dallas College presenters examine the reasons that students leave their community colleges before the census date and recommend multiple strategies to retain or re-engage these students.
Jul 16, 2025
The authors examine the loss of students who leave their community college before the census date and investigate the critical periods spanning application, enrollment, and census date; leakage points; and strategies to retain these students.
This study uses a discrete choice experiment to quantify how prospective homebuyers in the U.S. Gulf Coast value flood risk, mitigation measures, and various forms of risk communication.
