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Clinical trials and research at Rand Corporation
As of November 12, 2026, Find a Trial lists 132 NIH-funded research projects at this institution, with $87.7 million in listed awards. Every study is explained in plain English. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NIH RePORTER, updated November 12, 2026.
- 132NIH research projects
NIH-funded research (newest 40 of 132)
Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.
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Incentives and Anchoring to Improve Long-term HIV Medication Adherence
A study tests a simple, daily habit plan combined with friendly reminders and small rewards to help people living with HIV take their ART pills on time.
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Hybrid approach to boost cervical cancer screening in Uganda
A tested, community-driven program helps Ugandan women encourage their peers to get free VIA cervical cancer screening.
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Game Changers for cervical cancer prevention in Uganda
A community-based program helps women who have been screened share knowledge to encourage more women to get screened for cervical cancer in Uganda.
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Game Changers for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Uganda
A program using peer-led group sessions in Uganda aims to help more women get screened for cervical cancer using a low-cost method.
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Partnering to Build Native American Research Capacity in HEAL Topics
Aimed at helping Tribes and Native American Serving Organizations grow their own NIH-funded research capacity around HEAL topics.
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Evidence-based alcohol and sexual risk support in homeless young adults
A real-world study will bring a proven counseling approach to drop-in centers serving 18–25-year-olds who are homeless, to help reduce alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors.
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Reducing diagnostic differences to keep mental health patients safer
A nationwide project at RAND aims to harmonize how clinicians diagnose mental disorders to prevent misdiagnoses and reduce harm from wrong medications.
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Hybrid approach to boost cervical cancer screening in Uganda
A patient-friendly program called Game Changers for Cervical Cancer Prevention helps Ugandan women encourage friends and family to get screened for cervical cancer using a low-cost test.
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Improving Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicare Beneficiaries
This project aims to make FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder more accessible to people covered by Medicare.
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Peer-led 'Game Changers' program to boost cervical cancer screening in Uganda
This project offers a peer-led seven-session program that helps women in Uganda encourage friends and family to get low-cost cervical cancer screening with VIA.
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Game Changers to help women promote cervical cancer screening in Uganda
A peer-led program trains women who were screened to encourage friends and family to get cervical cancer screening in Uganda.
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Adaptive PTSD Therapy for Opioid Addiction Patients
A study is testing a flexible PTSD treatment approach that can be delivered in primary care and by community health workers to people with opioid use disorder and co-occurring PTSD.
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Peer-led program to increase cervical cancer screening in Uganda
This program trains women who have been screened to encourage their friends and family in Uganda to get low-cost cervical cancer screening (VIA).
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Understanding How Race and Ethnicity Affect Money Loss After Work Injuries
This project looks at whether racial and ethnic differences influence how much money people lose after workplace injuries.
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ABC-SUD: Help getting substance use treatment easier for people who need it
This grant tests a care-navigation program to help people with substance use disorder start and stay in treatment.
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Measuring how the opioid crisis affects communities over time
This NIH grant supports a real-world project to find out how stimulant and opioid problems affect local communities and how best to help treatment programs adopt proven strategies.
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A smarter way to guide opioid policy to save lives
A model-based tool helps counties plan how to use resources to reduce opioid and stimulant deaths and overdoses.
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Data and Methods Core for Improving Implementation of Addiction Treatments
This grant supports a center to improve how proven addiction treatments are put into real-world use.
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Administrative Core supports implementation research in addiction treatment at Stanford
This grant funds a central organizing team to help speed up real-world addiction treatment research and improve how projects are run and shared with communities.
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Center to Advance Research Excellence for Addiction Treatment at Stanford (OPTIC)
A national-style center aims to speed up real-world use of proven addiction treatments so that people who need them can access care.
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Loneliness, social isolation, and alcohol/drug use over time in U.S. adults
This project follows U.S. adults ages 30–80 over eight years to see how loneliness, social connections, and alcohol or drug use change together.
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How housing and lending disparities relate to obesity in adults
This NIH grant explores how past and present mortgage lending practices in racialized neighborhoods contribute to obesity and cardiometabolic risk, with insights aimed at improving health in affected communities.
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School-based preventive health services to improve kids' health and school success in Colorado
This project will expand and compare school health services to see how they change health and school outcomes for children and teens in Colorado.
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How sleep affects health for Black gay men
This project follows Black gay men for a year to find out whether poor sleep links life stress to worse HIV, mental, and physical health.
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Incentives and Anchoring to Improve Long-term HIV Medication Adherence
A new approach uses habit-based anchoring with daily text reminders and small prizes to help people with HIV stick to their ART routines over time.
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Incentives and reminders to help people take HIV medicines regularly
This project uses daily reminders and small rewards to help people living with HIV keep a regular antiretroviral pill-taking routine.
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Understanding undiagnosed dementia and its cost impact in older adults
A study will use probabilistic dementia classification to better identify Alzheimer’s and related dementias among people 65 and older and understand how misdiagnoses affect healthcare use and costs.
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When scope-of-practice rules change, can more eye doctors make laser eye care more available?
This project looks at how allowing optometrists to perform certain laser eye treatments could affect access to eye care and patient experience in glaucoma.
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Improving wellness for Native American adults using Indigenous knowledge
Providing training and technical support to Tribal and Native-serving organizations so they can lead research on pain, addiction, and wellbeing for Native American adults.
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Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Kids’ Health in California and Oregon
This grant tests whether school-based health centers improve health, healthcare use, costs, and school outcomes for kids in California and Oregon.
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Telehealth Buprenorphine for pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder
A national study at RAND is testing how delivering buprenorphine treatment through telehealth affects pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder.
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Measuring What Matters: Patient-Centered Goals for Serious Mental Illness Care
A patient-centered set of measures to track how well mental health services help people with serious mental illness reach their personal goals.
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Telehealth policies to improve perinatal behavioral health care and reduce disparities
This grant tests how telehealth policies can help pregnant and postpartum women get better behavioral health care and outcomes, especially in underserved groups.
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Increase use of non-drug therapies for chronic low back pain
A study to help people with chronic low back pain use proven non-pharmacological therapies more often, by empowering patients to advocate for these treatments in their networks.
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Improving IUD Insertion Experience for Teens and Women
A new grant aims to make IUD insertions more comfortable for women and adolescents by pulling together existing evidence, listening to patient and clinician experiences, and modeling costs to guide a future patient-friendly trial.
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Service-user guided look at how certified community behavioral health clinics are set up and how they affect care in New York
A patient-informed study will explore how certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs) are implemented in New York and how they affect care and use of urgent services.
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Health Care Worker Violence and Health of ADRD Patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities
A 5-year study will look at how violence against health care workers in skilled nursing facilities affects the health and well-being of residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
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Using convenience stores to help adults quit smoking
A funded project tests whether advertising in real-looking convenience stores can help adults become more interested in quitting smoking and use quitting resources.
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Reducing overdose and suicide risk for adults with opioid use disorder and mental health conditions
Trying new ways to help adults with opioid use disorder and co-occurring mental health problems start and stay on lifesaving medications and reduce overdose and suicide risk after emergency department visits.
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Community health worker support to help adults with chronic conditions prevent respiratory infections
Trained community health workers will help adults with chronic illnesses learn and adopt everyday actions to lower their risk of respiratory infections.
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