RAND Corporation

🏥 Healthcare

Oct 16, 2026

Helping people stay in work

This brief looks at what’s needed to deliver effective, scalable and sustainable early-intervention, caseworker-led support in the UK, reviewing evidence on impact, workforce needs and delivery models to help prevent health-related job loss

United Kingdom

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 16, 2026

Preventing health-related job loss

We examine what is needed to deliver effective, scalable and sustainable early-intervention caseworker-led support in the UK. It reviews evidence on effectiveness, workforce requirements and delivery models to help prevent health-related job loss

United Kingdom

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💻 Technology

Oct 16, 2026

Building Resilience Against Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Biological Threats

The authors share the results of a second workshop to explore options for implementing mitigations to combat the potential for AI-enabled biology to be misused to cause harm. They identify potential policy levers, operational steps, and trade-offs

Global

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 15, 2026

Suicide-Related Responses From AI Chatbots Through Application Programming Interfaces and Consumer-Facing Apps

This study examines how frequently AI chatbots provide direct responses to suicide-related prompts across access modes and whether response patterns differ between consumer-facing UI and API access across models and prompt risk levels

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 15, 2026

Alcohol Use Trajectories Across Disasters

This study examined long-term patterns of alcohol use among disaster-exposed adults and their associations with depression and illness anxiety (a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness)

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 15, 2026

Regulating Artificial Intelligence Design to Prevent Youth Mental Health Harms

This viewpoint examines the mental health risks AI chatbots pose to young people and outlines four regulatory priorities, including safety standards, independent testing, protective defaults, and harm monitoring

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 14, 2026

Implementing School-Associated Vaccination Events in Colorado Public Schools

We fielded a web-based survey of school nurses that worked in Colorado public schools in Fall 2024 to assess perceived implementation facilitators and barriers

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 14, 2026

Indicators of Mental Health Literacy and Mental Health First Aid Skill Application in a Large Sample of U.S. Trainees

This article examines associations between indicators of mental health literacy and Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) skill application in a sample of trainees

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Oct 14, 2026

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Societal Warfare Games

This report synthesizes observations from RAND’s Infinite Potential Societal Warfare games, which explored how domestic unrest related to advanced AI could be strategically exploited by U.S. adversaries

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 13, 2026

Access to Medical Care in California Workers’ Compensation

This report, the first of four annual studies required by California Labor Code section 5307.2, examines injured workers’ access to medical care and provider participation in the state’s workers’ compensation system

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 13, 2026

Disparities in Virtual Outpatient Mental Health Care Utilization Among Commercially Insured Children and Adults, 2023-2025

In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed outpatient mental health visits delivered to commercially insured patients aged 6-64 years between January 2023 and December 2025

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Oct 13, 2026

Sustainment of a Youth Substance Use Treatment Model Following Organization-Focused Versus State-Focused Federal Financing Strategies

Our quasi-experimental, mixed-method study compared Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) sustainment between treatment organizations funded by each grant type

United States

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