Areas of Expertise
Health and Education Linkages in Developing Countries
Over the past decade the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and other major population and health studies have consistently shown that educational attainment has a substantial effect on behavior and attitudes towards health, evidence of the mutual benefits between education and health. AIR is carrying out important work that links the areas of health and education, such as training teachers to provide simple health interventions at schools (for example, the administration of deworming medicine and micronutrients, or provision of clean water and sanitation) and strengthening health education curricula and teacher training (such as curriculum training on HIV and AIDS prevention, nutrition and hygiene, and malaria prevention).
Recent Reports
- Performance Management: Improving State Systems through Information-Based Decisionmaking
- Medical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-Based Relation
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Recent Projects
- The Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care
- Commitment for Quality Education for More Children in Haiti
- ENGAGE: Pilot Project in Inclusive Education
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Health Policy/Affairs
Health public policy analysis touches on a broad range of health issues, from financing of health care to cost containment to improving quality and outcomes. AIR’s work in this area often involves original research as well as surveying the landscape and pulling together materials created by others. We also work to inform the public on key issues. AIR’s efforts extend from reforms of Medicare and Medicaid to developing communication plans in case of terrorist biohazards or an influenza pandemic.
Recent Reports
- Performance Management: Improving State Systems through Information-Based Decisionmaking
- Prospects for the Social Safety Net for Future Low Income Seniors
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Recent Projects
- Helping States Improve Their Medicare Services
- Medicare Part D Consumer Research
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Population Monitoring Surveys
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Healthcare Financing
The web of private and public healthcare financing schemes ultimately determines who is covered by insurance and what kind of care they receive. At AIR, a key focus is to evaluate the impact of policy reform efforts on the medical marketplace. AIR Health Program Director Marilyn Moon, a renowned Medicare scholar, continues her research and analysis of the new drug benefit that will profoundly impact some 45 million people in this pivotal social insurance program.
Recent Reports
- Performance Management: Improving State Systems through Information-Based Decisionmaking
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Recent Projects
- The Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care
- Evaluation of the Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program and the Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity Program
- Medicare’s Future
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High School Improvement
AIR provides technical assistance and designs, analyzes, synthesizes, and distributes research and information about promising and proven practices that inform the national debate about policies and strategies for high school improvement. Our expertise and work leading the National High School Center for the U.S. Department of Education, and the Early College High School Readiness project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are examples of our contributions to the field.
Recent Reports
- Turnaround Schools in California: Who Are They and What Strategies Do They Use?
- Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2008
- What Matters for Staying On-Track and Graduating in Chicago Public Schools: A Focus on Students with Disabilities
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HIV/AIDS
AIR’s work in HIV/AIDS involves the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). Through CDC, we oversee the development and implementation of the Act Against AIDS Campaign, the first national HIV prevention campaign focused on the domestic epidemic in over 20 years that leverages efforts in the public and private sectors. Additionally, AIR provides a comprehensive media relations program for the Office of Communications at CDC’s National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention (NCHSTP). Through NIAID, AIR provides HIV/AIDS communication strategies and support to the Office of Communications and Government Relations.
Recent Reports
- On the Road to Well-Being: The Development of a Communication Framework for Sexual Health
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HIV/AIDS Mitigation in Developing Countries
Schooling is one of the best weapons in the fight against HIV/AIDS in developing countries, but often HIV/AIDS devastates the school system. AIR works within and through the education sector to reduce HIV/AIDS and mitigate the impact of the disease by:
- preventing the spread of infection through school-based education and training;
- making accommodations for those children with HIV/AIDS to increase their access to educational opportunities, and providing support while they are in school;
- reducing stigma through education and raising awareness; and
- empowering communities, particularly women and girls, to have more control over their economic and reproductive options.
Recent Reports
- Vulnerability for Households with Persons with Disabilities and HIV/AIDS in Chongwe, Zambia
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Recent Projects
- ENGAGE: Pilot Project in Inclusive Education
- ENGAGE: Pilot Project in Inclusive Education
- ENGAGE: Pilot Project in Inclusive Education
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Recent Products
Human Factors in the Workplace
Human performance in the workplace is influenced by many things, including the way in which people interact with the systems, tools, machines, and environments of work and everyday life. AIR researchers apply their knowledge of work and human behavior to design workplace systems, procedures, and devices that improve performance, maximizes safety, and reduce risk and error. In addition, we design and evaluate software so that it is consonant with human capabilities, evaluate the causal contributors to human error, evaluate voluntary incident report systems, and conduct process analyses related to the use of aeronautical information.
Recent Reports
- Post-Training Feedback: The Relative Effectiveness of Team- Versus Instructor-Led Debriefs
- Toward a Generalized Human Factors Taxonomy for Classifying ASAP Incident Reports, AQP Performance Ratings, and FOQA Output
- A Review of Selected Aviation Human Factors Taxonomies, Accident/Incident Reporting Systems, and Data Reporting Tools
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