AIR is working alongside the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop, implement, and evaluate the National Blood Disorders Program (NBDP). The NBDP's initial focus is on sickle cell disease and the release of the first evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to manage the condition.
AIR created the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice to bridge the gap between the body of research on improving services for children with emotional and behavioral problems, and the actual practice of serving them.
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
Defining overall quality measures of physician performance with respect to chronic disease management and preventive care for older adults and to define strategies for quality improvement and physician recognition programs.
Partners United for Supportive Housing Cedar Rapids will work to retain family unity, provide stable housing, and improve family functioning and well-being for children who are in, or at-risk of entering, the child welfare system.
The Elementary and Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center (EMSTAC) was a five year contract between the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). It was funded from 1997-2001.
The National Head Start Impact Study is a longitudinal study that will involve approximately 5,000 - 6,000 three- and four-year-old preschool children across an estimated 75 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies in communities where there are more eligible children and families than can be served by the program. ...
The California Collaborative on District Reform joins researchers, district practitioners, state policy actors, and funders in on-going evidence-based dialogue and collective problem-solving to improve outcomes for all students in California school systems, with an emphasis on the over 1.5 million ELLs in California schools. ...
In this AIR Equity Initiative-funded study, we examined how full pcHPSA designation impacted the supply of health care providers to the area, and assessed if the financial and immigration visa incentives are effective in attracting primary care providers to practice in designated counties.
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) ...