AIR partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to write, design, and publish the first comprehensive government manual on best practices in crisis and emergency risk communication.
During the last few years, the medical field has developed several medical-team training (MTT) programs, some implemented in the military and some developed for commercial medicine. This paper reviews the evidence-base for two categories of MTT, simulator-based programs and classroom-based programs. ...
Elementary students outperform their peers in mathematics when taught by teachers using music, drama, and dance, according to a four-year evaluation of a teacher professional development program at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Personality phenotype has been associated with subsequent dementia in studies of older adults. This study used Project Talent data to examine whether personality during adolescence—a time when pre-clinical dementia pathology is unlikely to be present—confers risk for dementia in later life.
This report shows the results of AIR's review of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program's evaluation portfolio.
AIR has worked closely with the National Institutes of Health to provide lay audiences with science-based, plain-language information related to heart, lung and blood diseases and conditions and sleep disorders.
This Field Guide should be used by schools and districts to assist them in developing well-articulated and widely shared plans for creating middle schools where all students succeed.
In this video, Mandy David, a certified physician assistant and senior communications specialist at AIR, talks about issues that adult sickle cell patients face as she evaluates and treats them at the Johns Hopkins Sickle Cell Center for Adults.
This report begins by sharing data and research on the problem of minority male achievement and the narrow pipeline to STEM careers, and discusses the Model Institutions for Excellence Program and why it is ideally poised to lead the Expanding the K–16 Pool effort.
Left untreated, chronic kidney disease can progress to kidney failure, known as end-stage renal disease. AIR works to address the disparities in care and the high cost of caring for patients with ESRD.