More than 550,000 Medicare beneficiaries have end-stage renal disease. AIR supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in efforts to improve care for people with chronic kidney disease.
Project Talent is the largest, most comprehensive study of high school students ever conducted in the United States. Since its launch in 1960, researchers have continued to collect data on the original participants and now its data are helping AIR researchers study possible risk and protective factors of Alzheimer’s disease ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
The Center for Economic Evaluation is committed to rigorous and transparent economic analyses that generate evidence-based insights for more efficient and equitable systems, policies, and practices.
The Mental Health Workforce Accelerator Initiative provides financial support for job placements, stipends, and supervision for pre- and post-master’s mental health associates who will work in community provider settings serving vulnerable populations. Kaiser Permanente and the National Council have partnered with AIR to evaluate Accelerator. ...
Experts from the AIR will present several sessions during the annual conference of the Coalition on Adult Basic Education, being held March 31 – April 3, 2019, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, La. AIR experts will present at 13 sessions on a wide variety of topics, including ...
Anne Diffenderffer is a senior survey research specialist for Survey and Data Sciences at AIR. In this role, she provides survey operations expertise in all aspects of the survey data collection: planning, execution, quality control and reporting. She also provides technical assistance and support to schools and school districts that are ...
The AIR Equity Initiative is addressing systemic inequalities in the U.S. and globally through our focus on four key areas—educational equity, public safety and policing, workforce development, and community health and well-being. Explore our project library.
Approximately 135,000 children between three and five years of age live in the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and Huánuco in Peru, where total poverty and extreme poverty rates far exceed the national averages. AIR is evaluating the impact of a preschool program which aims to improve the quality of early ...
Rachel Shapiro is a senior researcher at AIR. Shapiro has experience conducting qualitative and mixed-methods research focusing on a range of health care delivery and payment reforms that aim to achieve better quality of care, improve population health, and lower costs of care. Her experience covers a range of policy ...