Andrew M. Parker

Understanding Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Health System

A RAND study, the first to examine care received by a census of active-duty service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the Military...

Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills

Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico....

Individual Differences in Resistance to Truth Decay

Exploring the Role of Reasoning and Cognitive Biases

In this report, the authors address one of Truth Decay's proposed drivers: characteristics of human cognitive processing, such as cognitive biases. Th...

Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Community Recovery After Nondeclared Disasters

Researchers describe six case studies of nondeclared disasters in diverse community contexts, considering innovations that support recovery in underse...

The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program

Assessment of Program Structure, Activities, and Implementation

Improvised explosive devices have been used extensively against U.S. forces during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and have bee...

Assessing Public Reach of the 2023 National Test of the Wireless Emergency Alerts (Wea) System

Results of a National Survey

The Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system targets alerts to mobile devices. The authors summarize how well U.S. citizens received a 2023 WEA test ale...

Adaptive Engagement for Undergoverned Spaces

Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches

"In this report, several authors explore the concept of undergoverned spaces (UGS) and the concepts, challenges, and prospects for developing new appr...

How Do We Know Whether Federal Disaster Programs Are Equitable?

An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program

Some communities, such as low-income or minority communities, are disproportionately affected by the impact of disasters, in part because they have fe...

An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance in Disaster Mitigation Grants

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program

The authors explore how the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program addresses the greatest natural hazard risks for mitigation...