AIR's Early Childhood Cost experts are offering free, one-hour consultations to support state Child Care Development Fund administrators in addressing specific questions or challenges they may be facing.
Health experts and researchers from AIR will present findings and insights from their work at the AcademyHealth 2026 Annual Research Meeting, held from May 30-June 2 in Seattle, Washington.
This three-part webinar series is designed to strengthen researchers’ skills in developing competitive proposals for non-academic funding. The sessions provide practical guidance on planning, writing, and successfully submitting strong proposals.
Sam Simon leads AIR's Quality Measurement and Improvement portfolio. Dr. Simon is a health services researcher with over 25 years of experience developing, evaluating, and implementing clinical quality measures for use in federal clinician, hospital, and nursing home accountability programs. He applies this expertise across both federal value-based care programs ...
Renée Smiddy has over 15 years of experience in healthcare research, provider payment system design, and Medicaid and Medicare policy. Her primary expertise includes health finance, financial modeling and hospital payment policy.Smiddy is an expert in Medicaid hospital payment policy and supplemental payments, and recently served as the supplemental payment ...
The Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (KTER), operated by AIR, connects connect disability employment research to the people and organizations who need it most.
Allison Greene partners with state and local education agencies to apply data-driven approaches that support continuous improvement and informed decision-making. She specializes in quantitative and mixed-methods research and evaluation, with particular expertise in large-scale survey administration.Greene serves as deputy project director for the Nevada School Climate/Social Emotional Learning (NV-SCSEL) Survey, ...
The Medicare Advantage program has the potential to make care delivery more efficient and to reduce costs through market competition and innovation. AIR examined peer-reviewed and gray literature to identify policy options and oversight approaches to address risks for fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare Advantage. ...
