RAND Corporation

🏥 Healthcare

May 09, 2026

Qualitative Findings on the Benefits of Depression Treatment for Pregnant Women Living with HIV in Uganda

Qualitative interviews with HIV-positive pregnant women in Uganda found that depression treatment by lay workers and nurses improved mental health, ART adherence, and pregnancy management

Uganda

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🏥 Healthcare

May 09, 2026

Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Disorder Treatment

Medicare's 2020 methadone coverage policy for opioid use disorder expanded treatment access for older adults, increased provider participation, and generated spillover effects across payers

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

May 08, 2026

Optimizing Defense Requirements Cooperation Among the United States and Its Allies

In this paper, RAND researchers outline the benefits of defense requirements cooperation and analyze how these benefits may be optimized among the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia to enhance the effectiveness of combined forces

United States

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💻 Technology

May 08, 2026

How to Forecast China’s Lithography Leap

The authors assess two forecasting methodologies’ abilities to contribute to the fast-moving field of techno-economic competition in the context of the global semiconductor ecosystem and China’s efforts to indigenize lithography technology

Global

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👥 Society

May 08, 2026

When Military-To-Civilian Transition Support Falls Short

Interviews with 50 diverse post-9/11 veterans found gaps in military-to-civilian transition support. Key challenges included mental health access, housing, and finances, often driven by unawareness of available resources

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

May 07, 2026

Build Partner Airpower, Not Air Forces

This paper examines lessons from U.S. efforts to build air forces in Iraq and Afghanistan during counterinsurgency operations from 2004 to 2021. The author offers recommendations for aviation security force assistance missions in irregular warfare

United States

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📚 Education

May 07, 2026

Reading Full Books in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms

Amid concerns about the diminishing role of full books in schools, this report examines whether secondary English language arts teachers assign full books and how full-book assignment varies based on teachers’ curricula and context

United States

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📚 Education

May 06, 2026

School-Level Poverty in Education Survey Research

The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the potential utility of school-level poverty measures other than free or reduced-price lunch for achieving population representativeness in survey weighting

United States

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💻 Technology

May 06, 2026

China's Science and Technology Strategy in Perspective

In this report, the authors analyze how China conceptualizes science and technology as part of the country's broader national strategy by drawing on a variety of government documents, literature, and international reports

China

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🌍 Geopolitics

May 06, 2026

Force Multipliers in the Americas

In this report, the authors outline potential ways to harness the full potential of U.S. Department of War security force assistance activities in Latin America

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

May 05, 2026

Efforts to Lower Health Care Costs Through Informed Consumer Choice

Since 2002, the State of Minnesota has provided health care coverage for its employees and their dependents using a tiered cost-sharing approach. This brief synthesizes findings from four studies examining the design and outcomes of this system

United States

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💻 Technology

May 05, 2026

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

Open-weight AI models (OWMs) introduce distinct risk factors for which existing evaluation practices, largely designed for closed-weight model deployment, fail to account. The authors propose proportional evaluation approaches for OWMs

Global

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