AIR has played a critical role in investigating the use of evidence-based practices in home visiting, early language outcomes, home visiting during the COVID-19 pandemic, and evaluations of the Welcome Baby program sponsored by First 5 LA.
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
Disparities and disproportionalities in human services and behavioral health care—such as lack of access to prevention and treatment services—can threaten child, youth, and family development and well-being, as well as performance in school and on the job. This Blueprint enables communities and states to develop and implement data-driven strategies through ...
USAID's Monitoring and Evaluation Support Activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is an extension of the MEASURE-BiH Activity, which evaluated the impact of development programs in BiH and built the capacity of local stakeholders to conduct evaluations and social science research to inform policy and programming. ...
New research finds that high school students’ personality traits may be linked to a heightened or lessened risk of death around 50 years later. These findings, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, come from an in-depth analysis of AIR’s Project Talent, now in its 59th year. ...
While extant literature has studied symptoms experienced by patients with end-stage renal disease receiving in-center hemodialysis, AIR has been supported by the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Health Initiative to address a knowledge gap regarding which symptoms patients prioritize for the development of new or improved therapies to support symptom ...
Existing research reveals that many school sites face environmental and health problems that affect education outcomes. This project, funded by the AIR Equity Initiative, will implement a series of coordinated activities to highlight health conditions that negatively impact achievement in schools attended primarily by children of color. ...
As a principal researcher at AIR, Coretta Mallery Lankford is the deputy director for the Health Learning Translation and Quality Measurement group responsible for leading the design and implementation of work to develop and implement quality measures and has specific expertise in developing measures for people with disabilities. Dr. Lankford’s ...
This survey was developed to measure family member experiences of nursing home care, the results of which will contribute to the understanding of quality of care in nursing homes. Unlike other CAHPS surveys, the CAHPS nursing home family member survey was developed to solicit information from respondents who ...
PrEP is paving a path across the nation and globally. HIV, PrEP, and same-gender relationships are being showcased in the mainstream media, online and offline. How can we seize this moment and apply novel strategies to increase PrEP awareness, access, and use? Powering the PrEPosition: (How to Get Away with) ...