Elisa Eiseman

The Army manages the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR) of over 43 million serum samples and the associated Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS) database, whose primary use is for military health surveillance. RAND Arroyo Center examined the current capabilities of these resources to identify gaps and suggest strategies to improve their ability to meet current and future military health needs.

The authors review traffic safety in the United States, with specific reference to military personnel, focusing on safety interventions and attempts to change driver behavior and decisions. This review discusses the safety interventions that tend to help in the reduction of vehicle crashes, especially those related to motorcyclists.

From 2005 to 2008, the National Academies conducted an external review of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research programs. This external review assessed programs' impact on and relevance to preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. This book describes the methodology that RAND researchers developed to help NIOSH programs prepare for the external review.

Presents detailed findings, based on surveys and interviews with stakeholders, on the TRICARE demonstration of its impact on health care utilization, cost, and outcomes of health care services Federal legislation in 2001 required the Department of Defense to conduct a demonstration involving expanded access under TRICARE to licensed or certified mental health counselors. The authors present detailed findings, based on surveys and interviews with stakeholders, on the impact on health care utilization, cost, and outcomes. The authors examine and compare pre-demonstration and post-demonstration data, and they compare results of military catchment areas that participated in the demonstration and control catchment areas.

Assesses current systems for tracking health resource flows to and within developing countries to determine what would constitute a truly global tracking system able to address both the needs of potential users and the current systems' limitations. The RAND Corporation conducted interviews, consulted with experts, and carried out detailed analyses of existing tracking systems that focus on health resources flowing to and within developing countries, the objective being to determine how to provide a truly global health resource tracking system that will provide comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date data for policymakers and other users and will address the current systems' limitations.

Provides results of an analysis based on RAND Corporation's RaDiUS (Research and Development in the United States) database that shows state-by-state trends in federal R&D funding of U.S. universities and colleges from FY 1996 through FY 2002 and the amounts of federal R&D funding going to individual universities and colleges in FY 2002. The federal government's investment in research and development (R&D) at the nation's universities which is pivotal to the U.S. innovation system has grown considerably. This report assesses that investment and presents a detailed analysis of the federal funds received for the conduct of R&D by state and by individual universities and colleges.

This study assesses the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission's contribution to policymaking by tracking the response to its recommendations, on issues such as human cloning, from the President, Congress, government, societies and foundations, other countries and international groups.

Insights and information from a study of twelve human tissue repositories; Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and proteomics-based cancer research and to identify 3best practices2 in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical concerns, informed consent, business plans, operations, intellectual property rights, public relations, marketing, and education that would be useful in designing a national biospecimen network.

Human tissue samples are used by the biomedical community for educational and research purposes. This guidebook brings together information about tissue storage in the United States, providing details about location, access, and research purposes of stored tissue samples.