AIR works alongside the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to support public health professionals, health care providers, and policymakers in adapting and applying dietary and physical activity guidelines in their work.
Malnutrition is one of the most serious global health problems. Advancing the knowledge base about the effects of nutrition and early childhood development programs on nutrition outcomes is particularly important in Bangladesh. AIR is evaluating a large-scale nutrition program and a pilot program to combat malnutrition in the country.
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Each year, Medicare alone spends an estimated $17 billion or more on unplanned hospital readmissions. The Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project's new national estimates on readmissions by diagnosis and procedure are the most comprehensive to date and show the extent of the problem.
The Multiple Category Transfer Grant program (MCTG) in Zambia provides grants directly to poor, labor constrained households, empowering families to decide how best to meet their needs.
The San Francisco City Option’s medical reimbursement account (MRA) program reimburses eligible expenses to make healthcare affordable for employees who live in and around San Francisco. AIR is evaluating the program in order to help the SF City Option program gain a better understanding of who participates, how to increase ...
AIR's Commitment for Quality Education for More Children in Haiti is to improve access to quality education through donor funded activities and to leverage additional resources to maximize the impact of education reform efforts.
AIR and Carilion Medical Center worked together to identify the challenges of implementing patient safety initiatives to decrease hospital associated infections.
Educational opportunity is a cherished part of the American story of upward mobility and social justice. The Equity Project at AIR is committed to building an inclusive and vibrant future through education.
How can policy lead to smart investments in PD that works? Please join NNSTOY, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders for a conversation about how the findings from the latest research in Our Good to Great series can inform your national, ...
Building on work as the PROMIS Network Center, AIR is leading efforts to obtain Food and Drug Administration qualification of the PROMIS fatigue measure for use in clinical trials of therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. AIR will collaborate with a patient co-investigator and the Bateman Horne Center for ME/CFS ...