Roman Ruiz is a postsecondary education senior researcher at AIR and has a decade of experience in the field of higher education, both as a researcher and practitioner. Currently, Ruiz leads quantitative data analysis tasks for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored Frontier Set initiative, a multi-year study designed to ...
On July 23, AIR will host an evening of reflection, discussion and engagement to shine the light on HIV/AIDS in the American rural South, as more than 25,000 service providers, advocates, policy makers and researchers are convened in Washington, D.C. for the International AIDS Conference (IAC). More than 150 guests ...
AIR is evaluating Prime Time Sister Circles®, a program designed to help mid-life African-American women take control of their health by improving health habits, monitoring and managing key health indicators (hypertension and weight), reducing stress, increasing physical activity, and improving nutritional choices. ...
While the DC Free Summer Meals program offers no-cost food to students throughout the city, families have often had difficulty finding the locations where meals are available. As a part of AIR’s Socially Responsible Analytics Initiative, we partnered with the District of Columbia Public Schools to build a website that ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
Why are so many Americans more concerned about Ebola than flu, when the data doesn't support that fear? Researchers have found that unfamiliar, epidemic diseases (such as Ebola) are more likely to cause concern than familiar, endemic diseases, such as the flu. Add the high death rate of Ebola overseas ...
Karla López de Nava is an expert on healthcare policy and quantitative analysis, focusing on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts on Medicare payment policy, value-based care model design, operation, implementation, and evaluation. She has over 15 years of experience managing federal and state projects, directing, and overseeing ...
Approximately 28 percent of U.S. adults have several of the risk factors for pre-diabetes but only one out of six are aware of it, according to an AIR study that found providing services that would prevent or delay the onset of the disease could generate savings for the federal government ...
The seven COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) research practice partnerships (RPPs), hailing from California, Florida, New York, and Washington, are community-based, solutions-focused teams of local educators, community members, and researchers. The CEE RPP teams are critically aware of this moment in history and their role in helping to shape ...