Sixty-five has long been a benchmark age for public programs such as Social Security and Medicare, but many experts question whether it should be changed for today's aging society. In this video interview, Marilyn Moon, AIR Institute Fellow and director of AIR's Center on Aging, explains whether 65 is still ...
National surveys show that vaccination rates for young children (19–35 months old) in rural areas are lower for nearly all recommended vaccines. AIR is conducting a qualitative study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to understand facilitators of and barriers to vaccination in rural U.S. communities. ...
High rates of antibiotic use have been linked to the growth of healthcare associated infections as well as multi-drug resistant organisms—both of which can be life threatening to elderly patients. Along with a team of experts in nursing home care and antibiotic stewardship, AIR developed a guide that will provide ...
Maliha Ali is a senior mixed methods researcher in the Health Program at AIR, with over fifteen years of experience in health services research. Her primary responsibilities include leading and supporting qualitative and quantitative data collection and analyses on projects related to health equity, cross-sector collaboration, and the prevention and ...
The D.C. Department of Health Care Finance Medicaid Behavioral Health Transformation Demonstration aims to strengthen the continuum of care and move Medicaid toward a more integrated model of behavioral health care delivery by expanding treatment options for substance use disorder, serious mental illness in adults, and serious emotional disturbance in ...
Sarah Frazelle is the co-director of the National Student Attendance and Engagement Center (SEAC) and a senior researcher at AIR focusing on projects related to attendance and engagement. In her role at SEAC, she leads the AIR team in developing tools to help reduce chronic absenteeism through root cause analysis ...
Lakecia Whimper is Illinois CSI's senior performance management officer and a member of the center’s senior leadership team. In her role as the senior performance management officer she is charged with providing strategic leadership by leading the design and implementation of the performance management system for Illinois CSI. The performance management ...