RAND Corporation
| Type | Think Tank |
|---|---|
| Website | rand.org |
| Wikipedia |  |
| Year founded | 1948 |
| Location |
Santa Monica, CA
 United States of America
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| Functions | Research |
| Funding sources | Corporations, Endowments, Governments or multi-govt organizations, Individual citizens, University-funded |
| Summary | RAND Corporation ("research and development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations, universities and private individuals. The company has grown to assist other governments, international organizations, private companies and foundations with a host of defense and non-defense issues, including healthcare. RAND aims for interdisciplinary and quantitative problem solving by translating theoretical concepts from formal economics and the physical sciences into novel applications in other areas, using applied science and operations research. |
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RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Presents an assessment of how effectively state and local health departments communicated information regarding the April 2009 H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak via the Web to their constituents.
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Finds that California's publicly funded preschool system is not adequate in terms of access and quality or efficient in allocating resources and provides policy recommendations for improvement.
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Identifies barriers to mental health care access for military servicemembers and veterans in community settings.
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Evaluates a one-year trial in which two administrative requirements governing the provision of mental health care under TRICARE (the health care system for military personnel) were lifted, focusing on whether …
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
A detailed investigation into the connections between intellectual-property piracy, organized crime, and terrorism, including case studies of criminal and terrorist groups and recommendations for reducing the demand for and supply …
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
RAND recommends that policymakers use federal funds to support state efforts to improve preschool quality and access for the most disadvantaged children. The related policy actions will help increase school …
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
RAND recommends policy actions and investments to increase the likelihood of success of pay-for-performance systems of educator compensation in the United States and identify the practices most likely to succeed.
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Charter schools do not generally draw the top students from other public schools. Their test-score gains are similar to those of traditional public schools, but they have higher rates of …
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
Qatar's education reform, which included implementation of a new finance system, appears to be providing schools with adequate funding but is still struggling with issues of transparency and swift policy …
RAND Corporation · 1 January 2009 English
To maintain relevant medical skills, some military medical personnel stationed at military treatment facilities could be stationed in civilian emergency rooms and trauma centers, where cases more closely resemble those …