Research designed with people who use drugs in mind should be developed side-by-side with, and even led by, people who use drugs; however the research enterprise has systemic problems. To address this challenge, AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) and the National Harm Reduction Coalition (NHRC) ...
On October 24, 2022, AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) presented the final webinar in its series on the social determinants of addiction. The webinar addressed the thoughtful and unanswered questions we have heard from webinar attendees over the course of the series. We will also ...
Dr. Louis C. Danielson, a managing director and special education expert at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), received the Council for Exceptional Children's prestigious J.E. Wallace Wallin Lifetime Achievement Award on April 11, 2012 during the organization's annual convention in Denver, CO. ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
In recent years, one of the most pressing problems that plagued public sector education in Pakistan was the perpetuation of outdated methods of teaching and learning. Students left the system with no capacity for critical thinking, or much worse, illiterate. The objective of ED-LINKS was to improve the quality and ...
Amanda Latimore, Ph.D., leads AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES). She also teaches social epidemiology as an adjunct assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ashu Handa is an economist whose work centers on global poverty, health, and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. At AIR, he works to expand Equity Initiative work internationally and supports AIR’s global poverty research and policy efforts. He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina for 20 ...
In response to the numerous challenges facing the education system following Timor-Leste’s independence in 1999, UNICEF launched a far-reaching program to help restore its system of basic education. The main objectives of this program were twofold: first, to assist in developing a system of quality basic education; and second, to ...
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, director of AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) and a practicing physician at Heartland Alliance Health in Chicago, discusses her personal experience in treating patients with addiction and how research can help tackle the opioid epidemic. ...