RTI International Brochures
The following brochures provide information about our capabilities and services. We have also collected our annual reports, marketing brochures, and various forms that can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also view RTI Research Publications such as journal aticles, proceedings, and technical papers.
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Brochures
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Capability Flyer (107) Program/Product Brochure (100) Project Case Study (64) Annual Report (8)
Program/Product Brochure
AIDSTAR (AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources Program) Sector One
AIDSTAR – the AIDS Support and Technical Resources Program – Sector One is a multiple-award Indefinite Quantity Contract with seven prime contractors providing service delivery for HIV/AIDS. The award offers USAID Missions, headquarters Bureaus, other US government agencies and the Global Fund access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment support in resource constrained settings worldwide.
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Analytical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Development Services
RTI provides analytical support and consultation to pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology companies. Our analytical services range from lead discovery chemistry to cGMP release of finished products. RTI’s familiarity and compliance with regulatory requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other agencies enable our clients to have complete confidence in the quality and acceptability of all analytical data.
Behavioral HIV Research, Interventions, and Community-Based Trials
RTI has established an unparalleled reputation in HIV/AIDS
behavioral research and interventions as well as in community-based and
clinical trials.We bring together multidisciplinary teams, encompassing
numerous fields of inquiry, for innovative research, program evaluation,
and policy analysis.
Botswana: Targeting HIV Prevention to Most-at-Risk Populations (MARPs)
RTI is assisting the Government of Botswana to improve the quality and quantity of HIV prevention services for MARPs under the Support for the HIV Response in Botswana with the Civil Society for HIV Prevention that Targets Most-At-Risk Populations (MARPS) project. The 5-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development works along the highly trafficked corridor, primarily in the towns of Gaborone; Francistown; Kasane; Selebi-Phikwe; and Tlokweng, and aims to build the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to deliver prevention services.
Building Knowledge Ecosystems
RTI is a leader in advising government and business on knowledge-based
economic development and science parks. We bring together seasoned planners, policy analysts, management professionals, and economists with senior scientists and engineers—a range of expertise rarely found found in a single organization—to design, implement, and evaluate policies and practices that transform communities.
Building Knowledge Ecosystems: Select Project Experience
RTI is a world leader in advising governments, universities, and businesses on knowledge-based regional economic development and science parks. Our experience ensures that initiatives are designed, developed, and implemented to address the needs of a region and the objectives of the funders or sponsors.
Capabilities Overview
Highlights of RTI's expertise and capabilities in the field of health research, including health informatics, evidence-based practice, individual health behaviors, community health systems, health communication and marketing, health economics, data capture and integration, and health statistics research.
Child Welfare Research
Overview of RTI's varied research into issues affecting child welfare, including adoption, kinship care, foster care, sexual abuse, teen pregnancy, and education
Community and Health Education Research
RTI has extensive experience working with communities to understand the context in which health programs are implemented and how best to use this information to maximize public health initiatives. RTI's Community and Health Education Research (CHER) program conducts research and evaluation of these initiatives, using tools to thoroughly understand the local context and methods to inform and improve program development.
Community-Based Research: Substance Abuse and Related Health Issues
Overview of the skills, expertise, and knowledge RTI applies to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions with different populations of substance abusers
Comparative Effectiveness Research
RTI researchers gather and assess the best available research about
health care treatments, health behaviors, and health policy to foster better decision making and improve patient care outcomes and quality of life. Since 1997, we have operated an Evidence-Based Practice Center on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and we also serve as one of 13 members of AHRQ’s DEcIDE Network.
Contract Vehicles
Contracting vehicles simplify the procurement process and allow clients to quickly access services. RTI leads or is part of various consortia of specialized organizations that are formed to meet needs identified by clients such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and other government agencies in specific sectors. These large contracts are global in scope and allow clients to issue task orders for country-specific or regional projects.
Crime, Violence, and Justice Research
At RTI International, our goal is to conduct research that informs decision makers, policy, and practice on a variety of issues, including prevention, substance use, violence, juvenile justice, terrorism, and corrections.
Democratic Governance
Working worldwide with partners in public institutions and civil society, RTI International pursues innovative approaches and builds on best practices to create a foundation for democratic governance. Our goal is to help build more effective, accountable, and responsive institutions at the national and local levels of government.
Développement International
EdData II: Données sur l’éducation pour la prise de décisions
French translation of EdDataII: Education for Decision-Making brochure, describing RTI's work under the EdData II contract, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
EdData II: Education Data for Decision-Making
The EdData II project, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, provides survey expertise to help national and local governments as well as the donor community to assess education status and to design methods for improvement.
Education Surveys
RTI provides the U.S. Department of Education and other clients with
detailed information about important national education issues. We offer over 30 years of experience and state-of-the-art capabilities for conducting large-scale, national cross-sectional and longitudinal education surveys.
eLearning : redéfinir l’éducation et la formation
(French version of eLearning brochure)
Computers, mobile phones, radio, television, and the Internet are all examples of eLearning tools that can be applied to foster and facilitate learning. RTI International’s approach to eLearning provides focused, practical interventions to help stakeholders deliver quality education and training despite challenging conditions.
eLearning: Redefining Education and Training
RTI International’s approach to eLearning provides focused, practical interventions to help stakeholders deliver quality education and training
despite challenging conditions.
Emerge To Compete: Building Capacity for Economic Growth
RTI International’s Emerge to Compete (EtoC) initiative forges regionally focused networks of national and subnational economic development actors, including leading private and public institutions involved in regional development, investment, and trade.
Emerge to Compete: Building Capacity for Economic Growth (French Translation)
RTI International’s Emerge to Compete (EtoC) initiative forges regionally focused networks of national and subnational economic development actors, including leading private and public institutions involved in regional development, investment, and trade.
Energy Research
Energy research programs at RTI are united by a single goal: to
develop cleaner and more efficient sources of energy to meet the nation’s growing energy demands in a carbon-constrained world. Our researchers
conduct innovative R&D to solve energy-related problems faced by the electric power, transportation, chemical, and petroleum refining industries. Whether designing pilot-scale gas cleaning systems or conducting laboratory-scale reactor testing on novel catalyst formulations, we deliver the highest quality results to our clients and embody our mission of turning knowledge into practice.
Engineering and Technology R&D
RTI engineers help clients achieve their goals through the identification, development, application, and transfer of leading-edge technologies. Our expertise spans the energy, health, environment, and electronics markets. We have proven capabilities to successfully execute early- and late-stage R&D programs, and to lead programs from initial R&D to prototyping to commercialization.
Environmental Health IQC
Continuing over 20 years of expert support to USAID programs in Environmental Health. The Environmental Health IQC is the preferred USAID contract vehicle for environmental interventions that are intended to improve
public health. It supports environmental, behavioral, and policy interventions to prevent infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and injuries caused by environmental conditions.
Environmental Statistics
RTI scientists provide model- and design-based solutions to environmental problems. Since 1959, we have provided support to government and industry clients, applying statistical analysis to environmental concerns. RTI environmental statisticians collaborate with scientists and engineers from other disciplines to form a team that has a deep understanding of environmental problems and policies.
Epidemiology and Environmental Exposure
RTI’s epidemiological research is helping to illuminate the complex interactions of the environment, exposure, and disease. Our approach to understanding exposure/disease relationships is multidisciplinary, allowing us to offer a wide range of studies requiring data and specimen collection and analysis.
Experience in Africa
RTI has been working in Africa for more than 40 years. Our expertise throughout Africa covers the fields of conflict management, mitigation and reconstruction, democratic governance, education, environmental management, health, information and communication technologies, and public finance. We maintain a corporate office in Pretoria, South Africa.
Experience in Africa (French translation)
Description of RTI's project experience in Africa. French translation.
Experience in Asia
RTI International has been working in Asia for more than 32 years, having become a leading contract organization for clients such as the U. S. Agency for International Development, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, several United Nations agencies, as well as other regional and international organizations and foundations. Expertise throughout Asia covers the fields of democratic governance, education, health, environmental management, public finance, and information and communication technology.
Experience in China
In China, RTI’s work in developing public-private partnerships, strengthening the capacity of nongovernmental organizations, and collaborating with national and subnational government has supported improvements in health; education; water and sanitation; and the environment. The following projects are examples of RTI’s work in China since 1998.
Experience in China (Mandarin version)
Listing of RTI projects implemented in China. (in Mandarin Chinese)
Experience in India: Prospectus
RTI has a track record of collaborative work in India since 1982. This prospectus describes several of our successful projects in health, water and sanitation, energy, and the environment. In these efforts RTI emphasizes institutional development through the transfer of analytical tools and methods, the dissemination of best practices, and collaborative applied research to test and apply new technologies.
Experience in India: Summary
RTI has a track record of collaborative work in India since 1982. This flyer briefly lists several of our projects and programs, which emphasize institutional development through the transfer of analytical tools and methods, the dissemination of best practices, and collaborative applied research to test and apply new technologies.
Experience in Indonesia
For 25 years, RTI International has provided technical assistance to numerous clients and communitiesthroughout Indonesia. RTI’s programs in Indonesia encourage local ownership and public-private commitment to local development and service delivery. We engage the national and local governments, civil society, and the public and private sector to improve the policy environment and increase citizen participation in decision-making processes. RTI’s efforts help strengthen management of public investments in health and education, basic service delivery, and environmental management.
Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
RTI has provided technical assistance, training, and research in Latin
America and the Caribbean since the mid-1980s to clients such as USAID, the World Bank, IDB, and foundations. Our expertise includes governance and economic growth, decentralization, municipal strengthening, education, health, environmental management, public finance, public-private leveraging, and information and communication technology.
Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
(updated May 2008)
RTI International has been working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for more than 25 years, having become a leading contract organization for clients such as USAID, the World Bank, several United Nations agencies, and other regional and international organizations and foundations. Expertise throughout MENA covers the fields of democratic governance, education, health, environmental management, public finance, and information and communication technology.
Experience in the Middle East and North Africa - Arabic version
Arabic translation of RTI's experience in MENA region.
Experiencia en América Latina y el Caribe
Brochure details projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Spanish.
Finances Publiques et Croissance Economique
GEOgraphic Data Evaluation (Geode™)
Geode is an Internet data querying and mapping tool developed by RTI that allows instant access to environmental data in a graphical context for use in decision making, analyses, compliance support, and presentations.
Gindex™
Gindex™ is a cutting-edge tool that enables collection of spatial data using the Web. Users interact with an intuitive map interface to identify locations they wish to describe.
Global Health
Overview of RTI's health-related research efforts and application of best practices around the world. For more than three decades, we have been striving to improve human health worldwide through innovative research, expert technical assistance, and effective decision support
Global Health Technologies
RTI International’s Global Health Technologies provides an enabling infrastructure to help our clients design and implement product development programs for drugs and medical devices. The RTI team has broad experience in product assessment and commercialization; drug/device development; clinical and regulatory strategy; and social, economic, and behavioral research.
Gouvernance Démocratique
Working worldwide with partners in public institutions and civil society, RTI International pursues innovative approaches and builds on best practices to create a foundation for democratic governance. Our goal is to help build more effective, accountable, and responsive institutions at the national and local levels of government.
Guide to RTI Contracts and Collaboration with CDC
RTI has worked with CDC since our founding in 1958. We hold several task order contracts with CDC and are preapproved to work under several GSA
schedules. RTI is also a member of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. This guide describes these contractual mechanisms and how to access them.
Guide to RTI Contracts and Collaboration with EPA
RTI has worked with EPA and its predecessor organizations for more than 35 years and has projects supporting all EPA offices. We hold several task order contracts with EPA and are preapproved to work under several GSA
schedules. This guide describes these contractual mechanisms and how to access them.
Health Communication and Marketing: Overview
RTI experts in health communication and social marketing research examine the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of target populations and design campaigns to promote effective communication, informed decision making, and healthy behaviors. We work with federal and state government agencies, as well as foundations, nonprofits, and commercial organizations.
Our health communication research and evidence-based campaigns target individuals, families, communities, health professionals, and policy makers.
Health Communication and Marketing: Select Project Experience
RTI helps social marketing and health communication clients develop, test, disseminate, and evaluate health and risk communication messages directed at target audiences. With backgrounds in public health, social sciences, and communications, our staff work on a range of topics from health promotion to health care treatment for federal agencies as well as states, foundations, and private sector organizations.
Health Promotion Research
RTI's health promotion researchers study health behavior and its many determinants in the social and physical environments in which people live. We study cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other preventable diseases, as well as behaviors that can be promoted through interventions addressing immunization, nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation,
and other health issues.
ICT Supports Program Performance Budgeting (PPB)
The Municipal Budget Reform (MBR) Program’s Performance Budgeting (PPB) software is an electronic budgeting system designed for use by municipal finance specialists to automate the PPB budgeting process (http://www.mbr-ukr.org). This software is used primarily by finance departments in selected municipalities. Its key features include producing medium-term expenditure and revenue forecasts; performing routine expenditure and revenue analysis; creating annual budget requests for local council (rada) approval; producing budget implementation reports by revenue or expenditure type; archiving data and formulas to use in developing the baseline budget for the next budget year.
Improving the Human Condition
Overview of RTI's history, research focus, global capabilities, university connections, and financial strength, as well as a select list of our clients.
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Update
RTI was awarded the USAID IRS indefinite quantity contract (IQC) in September 2006. This IQC reflects a new and substantial commitment
from USAID to support the use of an effective malaria control
intervention in Africa. Funded by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative
(PMI) through USAID, RTI is providing technical and financial support to
countries supported by the PMI to expand the use of IRS as an
intervention for malaria prevention and control.
Information and Communication Technology
RTI is a pioneer in applying information and communication technology (ICT) to accelerate development. We have more than 19 years’ experience designing, implementing, and managing ICT projects and systems in developing countries. Our country expertise spans Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a Catalyst for Change: A Regional Study on Innovative ICT in Education
In the Asia–Pacific region, governments are taking a particular interest in
exploring whether ICTs can help improve the quality of education, including teacher performance and student learning.
With funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), RTI International, in partnership with iEARN-USA, conducted an investigation of the effective use of ICT for education in rural areas of Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, and Samoa, from April 2006 to September 2007.
Innovation Deployed: Innovation-Led Economic Development at RTI
RTI’s innovation-led economic development team helps communities identify and leverage sources of innovation to drive economic growth. We assist with strategic planning and policy development, analyze industry trends, identify market opportunities, and conduct program evaluations to track the progress of initiatives.
Integrated Water Quality Management
RTI International offers extensive experience in a full range of technical, analytical, and logistical services and expertise in water quality assessment, Sections 305(b) and 303(d) program support, database management and systems analysis, geographic information systems (GIS) development and applications, and other related technical support to states and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regions. RTI also provides support in environmental statistics, modeling, and economics, including estimating the costs and determining the benefits of regulatory controls and Clean Water Act (CWA) policies, public health, and environmental risk assessment.
International Development
RTI provides countries around the world with a range of policy support, applied research and analysis, and other technical expertise in strategic planning, institutional development, performance management, information systems, and training. Our clients include USAID, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, several United Nations agencies, foundations, and other regional and international organizations.
International Education
RTI supports education reform around the world, particularly in developing countries. A recognized leader in this sector, RTI works to design, develop, and implement education systems that meet national priorities, are sustainable and manageable with national resources, and lead toward the international objectives of quality education for all.
International Environmental Management
Overview of RTI's expertise in environmental protection. Our experts work on projects involving indoor and outdoor air, surface water and groundwater quality, and solid and hazardous waste. We perform economic analyses and assist in environmental policy making in the United States and around the world.
International Health
For more than three decades, RTI International has been committed to improvingthe health of millions of the world’s underserved people through collaborative partnerships with local communities, national governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), and private sector counterparts. RTI’s international health experts focus on strengthening health systems; improving the use of scarce financial resources in the health sector; guiding effective policy formulation and implementation; preventing and controlling infectious diseases; and supporting maternal and child health, reproductive health, and family planning programs.
Maternal and Child Health Research
RTI conducts and supports all phases of research in maternal and child health, including data coordination and management, survey design and implementation, and program evaluation. Our work supports decision making not only by the federal agencies that develop and implement health care programs, but also by insurers, employers, and individuals.
Mathematical Modeling
RTI has a unique capacity for building cost-effective mathematical models and conducting virtual experiments for health outcomes. Our researchers use mathematical modeling and simulation techniques to evaluate disease dynamics, biological processes, environmental exposures, social interaction in disease behavior, and associated health outcomes. Application areas include HIV dynamics, substance use, cancer screening, sexually transmitted diseases, and planning for epidemic responses under different scenarios.
Microbicides (French)
Military Personnel & Family Research Prospectus
RTI International conducts research and provides research support for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. government agencies to improve force readiness and the lives and working conditions of military personnel and their families.
New Path for Social Development in Central America
Implemented in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, the USAID-funded Alianzas project aims to raise $2 in cash and in-kind donations (such as
equipment, advertising, transportation, and volunteers) for every $1 of USAID funding. Resources raised by the program are financing new and expanded health, nutrition, and education activities, with special emphasis on poor and underserved communities.
Nuevas vías para el desarrollo social en Centroamérica
Spanish translation of New Paths for Social Development in Central America (Doc ID 11573). The brochure covers RTI's work under the Alianzas project in Central America, funded by USAID.
Partenariat Public-Privé: Un Outil de Développement Local
Public Finance and Economic Growth
Overview of RTI's expertise in international financial systems. We help developing and democratizing countries with a variety of financial issues, helping them develop systems for transferring funds, issuing local debt, and implementing local fees and taxes. We also assist local governments in assessing their own debt-carrying capacity, provide savers and investors with adequate and timely information to judge the carrying capacity of local governments, and help local governments manage their finances to pay back their debt.
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): A Powerful Tool for Local Development
RTI International’s strategy in seeking PPPs is backed by over 40 years of international development experience, working with multiple stakeholders to address various development challenges. RTI seeks to harness the strengths and interests of the private sector and to link them with government and citizen priorities, ultimately leading to improved social services and infrastructure.
RTI El Salvador
Since 1986, RTI has been actively involved in El Salvador. In November 2003, RTI opened a permanent office in San Salvador to help support various projects in-country, as well as to facilitate linkages with local partners and organizations.
RTI Health Solutions Overview Brochure
RTI International and SPSS: A Business Partnership
Together, RTI and SPSS provide innovative data collection and analysis solutions to government, business, and academia, providing researchers with access to a wide range of cutting-edge technologies for information
capture, management, and predictive analytics.
RTI International Combat la Corruption
RTI International Fights Corruption
RTI fights corruption at the national and local levels through our extensive decentralization and local government work. We work to open governance to public participation and scrutiny and enhance the capabilities of citizens to participate in public policy making. We promote changes that increase transparency and controls, establish effective sanctions, and realign official incentives to public ends. These initiatives are complemented by our cross-sectoral efforts to counter corruption in the education, environment, and health sectors, and in conflict and post-conflict settings.
RTI Ukraine
For over a decade, RTI International has provided technical assistance and research design and support in Ukraine to help partners in government and civil society establish a robust democracy and solve critical social, economic, and health-related challenges. RTI’s experience in Ukraine spans decentralization, ministerial and local government capacity building, municipal finance and management, association building, and participatory strategic planning.
To better respond to client needs and expand its services in Ukraine, RTI has established a regional office in Kyiv. RTI’s Ukraine office employs local experts in health research, public finance, legislative reform, and information technology. The office also provides logistical and administrative support to ensure efficient project management and compliance with Ukrainian laws and regulations.
Sociedades Público-Privadas: una poderosa herramienta de desarrollo local (Public-Private Partnerships: A Powerful Tool for Local Development)
Description of RTI's experience forming public-private partnerships to aid in local development.
Statistical Capabilities
RTI is a world leader in research involving theoretical and applied statistical methodology. Our capabilities and experience include surveys, health research, bioinformatics, educational practices and outcomes, program evaluation, criminal justice, and environmental exposure and risk assessment studies. We have also developed software for the analysis of complex survey and cluster-correlated data.
Statistical Design and Analysis
RTI statisticians possess expert knowledge and skill in many facets of statistical design and analysis. We apply a variety of innovative statistical methodologies to diverse programs in health and environmental studies, as well as to both government- and private-sector-based program evaluations.
Stopping HIV/AIDS in High-Risk Transport Corridors and Border Towns in Zambia
RTI International and partner Family Health International(FHI) are implementing the Corridors of Hope II (COH II) project, developed to support Zambia’s National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework.
With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), COH II is working to prevent HIV/AIDS in seven of Zambia’s border and transport corridor communities with the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
Substance Abuse Research
Overview of RTI's approach to substance abuse research, which encompasses epidemiology, economics, psychology, health services, biology, pharmacology, clinical medicine, statistics, and survey methods
SUDAAN® 10
Designed and developed at RTI, SUDAAN® is an internationally recognized
statistical software package that provides nine procedures for analyzing
survey and other cluster-correlated data.
Surgir para competir: Desarrollar la capacidad para el crecimiento económico
Spanish Translation of "Emerge to Compete" brochure (Doc ID 10554).
RTI International’s Emerge to Compete (EtoC) initiative forges regionally focused networks of national and subnational economic development actors, including leading private and public institutions involved in regional development, investment, and trade.
Survey Methods Research
Overview of the development and evaluation of survey methodologies at RTI, including questionnaire design and testing, survey design and consultation services, and usability testing.
Survey Research and Methodology
At RTI, our survey research professionals are proficient in every aspect of full-service primary data collection, design, methodology, and analysis. On behalf of a variety of clients in government, academia, and industry, our survey experts work in or across a wide variety of research areas.
Survey Statistics
We have extensive experience designing samples for surveys, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, that involve a wide variety of populations and examine a range of issues from drug abuse to affordable housing. We are recognized as a leader in the development of innovative tools for survey sampling, including software for sample selection, weighting, imputation, and survey data analysis.
Technology Commercialization Services: Licensing Support
RTI’s technology commercialization team has secured hundreds of licenses and partnership agreements for government entities, research institutions, and academic and corporate clients. These agreements are win-win deals that accurately reflect the market opportunity for targeted applications.
Specifically, RTI helps identify potential licensees and initiate licensing discussions through our technology marketing, valuation, and negotiation support.
Technology Commercialization Services: Opportunity Assessment
Whether the need is to analyze a specific market, a technology, or a patent portfolio, RTI’s opportunity assessment services provide unparalleled experience, breadth of expertise, and a diverse network of contacts---all through the uniquely objective lens of a nonprofit third party. Employing best practices and proven methodologies, we have assessed thousands of technologies and hundreds of markets on behalf of private industry, government agencies, universities, research laboratories, and other clients.
Technology Commercialization Services: Partnership Development
RTI excels at identifying common needs across diverse organizations and creating a partnering opportunity where none was expected. We ensure
that partnership interests are effectively communicated and the partnership meets or exceeds our client’s goals and needs.
Technology Commercialization Services: Strategic Advising for Successful Commercialization Offices
RTI provides strategic consulting on important technology commercialization
and IP management issues to technology licensing offices. As a strategic advisor, we can help identify areas for improvement in policies or
procedures, or provide technology commercialization training
for staff at all levels.
Technology Commercialization Services: Technology Scouting
As innovation cycles shrink, retaining a competitive edge often means identifying and acquiring innovative technologies from outside your organization. RTI’s technology scouting service helps you identify emerging
technologies from nontraditional sources.
Technology Economics and Policy Research
RTI provides independent, interdisciplinary assessments of the economic contributions of innovation programs and new technologies to society’s economic, public health, and environmental welfare. Our work supports clients by providing robust quantitative accountability measures, assessing policy alternatives, and articulating the value of technology programs at the interface of complex issues.
Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation
RTI conducts multidisciplinary research in tobacco control to help identify the most cost-effective interventions to curb the global burden of tobacco use. Our experience includes comprehensive evaluations of state and national
tobacco control programs, spanning evaluation design, survey development,
implementation, analysis, and reporting.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis threatens public health worldwide, infecting one-third of the world’s population, with nearly 2 million dying of tuberculosis each year.
Despite the rising incidence of tuberculosis worldwide, no new drugs for the treatment of TB have been introduced to the market in 40 years.
To address the scope and complexity of the global tuberculosis problem,
RTI International utilizes its multidisciplinary experience and skills in drug development, epidemiology, policy, and health economics.
Une bonne gouvernance pour de meilleurs résultats sanitaires
(French translation of Health Governance brochure)
Health interventions—such as distributing insecticide-treated bed nets; administering HIV/AIDS tests; and building clinics—in under-served and under-resourced communities world-wide often work around the deficiencies in a country’s health system to improve service delivery. Strengthening the pillars of a country’s health system—governance, finance, and operations—is essential to sustaining the impact of such interventions and leading to better health outcomes for citizens.
Utilisation des TIC pour Améliorer la Santé (Using ICT to improve Health Care)
ICT provides powerful tools to improve health care management and policy analysis. Brochure describes RTI's project experience in this area.
Water Quality Communication and Outreach Services
RTI International has been involved with technical support of EPA’s national water quality reports since the early 1980s, providing support for a new generation of statistically based national reports for estuarine and coastal waters. RTI has also provided support for major national conferences and forums dealing with state and federal fish consumption advisory programs. In addition, RTI provides mission-critical outreach support for EPA databases and GIS systems.
Web-Based Professional Development and Continuing Education for Forensic Scientists
RTI experts in forensic science are working with the National Institute of Justice to develop and deliver Web-based continuing education for forensic scientists.
Women, Children, and Families Research on Health and Well-Being
Overview of RTI’s work to evaluate health insurance programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP, income support programs, food stamps, WIC, foster care, and adoption. We study program financing, program take-up rates, patterns of enrollment, provider payments and participation, beneficiary access to and satisfaction with services, and impacts of programs on quality and outcomes of care.
Capability Flyer
3D Integration Technologies for Advanced Microsystems
RTI is a leader in 3D integration technology, having demonstrated, in collaboration with commercial partner DRS, the first mixed-signal 3D bulk CMOS IC stack for infrared imaging applications. The RTI 3D integration technology platform includes through-silicon vias, high-density metal-metal and polymer bonding, and large-area multilevel metal routing. RTI is offering access to the technology platform through joint development projects, prototyping services and small volume production.
Advanced Gasification R&D
With more than 15 years of experience, RTI has an established track record in advanced gasification research. We have carried out various pilot-scale demonstrations of novel, sorbent-based syngas desulfurization technologies, as well as multi-contaminant control processes. We are also developing membrane materials/processes and catalytic processes for the conversion of coal to substitute natural gas, hydrogen, chemicals/fuels,
and electricity. Our experience in coal gasification is also being leveraged into research programs devoted to biomass conversion and biofuels production.
Advanced Interconnect Technologies
RTI is home to one of the premier wafer bumping and flip chip packaging
facilities in the U.S. Our experts in material and electronic technologies have more than 15 years of research, development, and implementation experience in all areas of bump interconnect technologies. From material characterization, to prototype and proof-ofconcept, to pilot-line and small-scale production, we tailor our capabilities to meet each client’s unique requirements.
Advancing Children's Health & Well Being (NSCAW)
To protect the nation’s most vulnerable and at-risk children, RTI International conducts a groundbreaking national study to help policy makers understand the characteristics and needs of children and families in the child welfare system. Sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children and families involved in the U.S. child welfare system. RTI has worked with ACF since 1997 to conduct the study. Intended to answer fundamental questions about the outcomes for abused and neglected children, NSCAW collects data directly from children and caregivers. The data have increased understanding of policies and practices impacting child safety, permanence, and well-being, as well as child and caregiver services.
Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care
RTI studies a wide range of policy issues related to the health and long-term care of the elderly population and persons with disabilities. We focus on the availability, access, and payments for a full range of health, long-term care, and related social services for these populations.
Air Filter and Air Cleaner Testing Services
A list of air filter and air cleaner testing services available through the Center for Aerosol Technology.
Analytical Hair Reference Materials for Forensic Testing Laboratories
RTI offers four distinct hair reference materials, manufactured under strict quality control procedures, for forensic testing laboratories. These matrix-matched calibrators enhance the supportability of forensic data by allowing laboratories to include external reference materials with drugs of abuse at near cut-off/threshold concentrations in their analytical procedures.
Applying ICT to International Education
RTI integrates ICT into international education projects to inform decision making, improve education policies and practices for education, and promote lifelong learning.
Applying ICT to International Health
RTI works collaboratively with local and national stakeholders using information and communication technology (ICT) to improve health systems, strengthen information-based planning and ensure the efficient and effective delivery of health services.
Applying ICT to International Health (Spanish translation)
ICT provides powerful tools to improve health care management and policy analysis. This brochure describes RTI's experience on various projects that apply ICT technologies to improve health.
ASA Fellows
Bios of RTI International statisticians who have been recognized by their peers as having made outstanding contributions to the field of statistics: Sally Morton, Paul Levy, Ty Hartwell, Ralph Folsom, Paul Biemer, and James Chromy
Bioanalytical Services
Bioinformatics and High-Performance Biocomputing
Through its Molecular Epidemiology, Genomics, Environment, and Health (MEGEH) partnership, RTI collaborates with academia and industry to conduct genomics studies and to fulfill its mission to improve the human condition. Our work may entail data collection from tens of thousands of people, the measurement of gene and protein expression, statistics, supercomputing, bioinformatics, biological assays, environmental assessments, or policy analysis.
Biomass and Biofuels Technologies
Drawing on decades of experience in advanced gasification research and catalyst development, RTI is conducting R&D to help make biomass-to-liquid fuel processes technically and economically viable. Our scientists are developing process technologies to remove tar, ammonia, and sulfur from
biomass gasification-derived syngas and are developing catalysts for converting syngas into transportation fuels. Other research focuses on co-gasification and also pyrolysis research.
Biostatistics
Blind QC Samples for Forensic Urine Testing Programs
RTI is qualified by the Division of Workplace Programs within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,as a supplier of
blind quality control (QC) urine samples for Federal workplace drug testing. we can custom-make reliable blind QC samples to meet your company’s needs.
blind quality control (QC) urine samples for Federal workplace drug testing. we can custom-make reliable blind QC samples to meet your company’s needs.
Carbon Capture R&D
RTI is actively developing technologies for capturing CO2 from fossil fuel–based combustion and gasification power plants. These include two
novel processes for post-combustion capture: a sorbent-based
technology and membrane-based technology. We are also developing a pre-combustion CO2 removal technology for the next generation of gasification-based power plants.
Clinical Chemistry Services
RTI has a fully functional on-site clinical pathology laboratory, where our
highly trained clinical research scientists perform routine and specialized
assays in support of government, commodity, and pharmaceutical clients.
Cluster-Randomized and Quasi-Experimental Studies: Design and Analysis
RTI is a leader in the design and analysis of cluster-randomized and quasi-experimental studies and applies this extensive experience to plan effective program strategies, improve the quality of existing programs, and evaluate program effectiveness.
Consumer Response to Emergencies and Foodborne Bioterrorism
Tennessee State University, RTI International, and Jackson State Community College, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are conducting research to evaluate consumer knowledge of recommended food safety practices and investigate effective training and information dissemination models to improve consumers' preparedness to respond to emergencies and foodborne bioterrorism.
Custom Microfabrication and Post-CMOS Wafer Processing
RTI is a leader in the research, development, and prototyping of innovative materials, microstructures, and devices. Our labs are equipped with a wide variety of fabrication tools and processing capabilities. We support R&D for companies of all sizes, ranging from venture-funded start-ups to Fortune 100 companies.
Data Coordinating Centers
As the data coordinating center for a multisite research study, RTI collaborates with the sponsor and with clinical investigators to design and implement clinical and behavioral epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Over the past three decades, RTI has served as the DCC for more than 25 multisite studies that include a strong portfolio in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other emerging public health challenges.
Data Management for Health Research and Evaluation
RTI is a world leader in data management for health research and evaluation, with significant experience designing and managing complex national, international, and multisite research studies and projects.
Database Research
Database Research
Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Services
RTI has specialized in reproductive and developmental toxicity studies for
more than 25 years. Led by Shelley Tyl, Ph.D., DABT, RTI has achieved a reputation for designing, executing, and reporting the findings of complex and comprehensive reproductive and developmental toxicology studies of the highest scientific caliber.
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK)
eLearning: Redefining Education and Training (Spanish translation)
RTI’s eLearning initiatives are designed to
• Increase access to education and training, especially in rural and
remote areas
• Enhance delivery of face-to-face training by incorporating ICT
• Overcome geographical, social, health, or security barriers to regular
communication and information exchange
• Ensure delivery of flexible, locally tailored training to key stakeholders
Elections and Voting Research
RTI conducts election research in the United States and internationally through telephone, face-to-face, Web, and mail surveys. We have experience developing and evaluating training programs, and we offer expertise in electoral reform and civic education. Additionally, we apply GIS and spatial analysis techniques to improve the ballot casting process and study voting behavior across many geographic scales.
Electronic Governance
Overview of RTI's application of information and communication technology (ICT) to address democratic governance, transparency and accountability, citizen involvement, management, and information and service delivery.
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Research
For over 30 years, RTI has been conducting economic analyses to support the development and evaluation of environmental and natural resource management policies. We combine an indepth understanding of these policies with a broad range of analytical capabilities. These capabilities
include the development and application of a large variety of economic modeling techniques designed to assess the benefits and costs of policy options. They also include the design of cost-effective policy instruments.
Environmental Studies and Analytical Support for the Agrichemical Industry
RTI has decades of experience supporting the steps involved in the FIFRA pesticide registration process. These capabilities include independent laboratory validation (ILV) of sampling and analysis methods, water monitoring, crop and soil analysis, and biologic sample analysis. Studies are performed in compliance with OECD guidelines, and work is conducted in compliance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs).
Epidemiology
Epidemiology Literature Reviews
Epidemiology: REMS/Risk Minimization Surveys
Establishment Survey Expertise
RTI has in-depth expertise in designing and carrying out successful surveys of commercial businesses, government agencies, health care organizations, and educational institutions and the employees, patients, faculty, staff, and students associated with them. Our experience includes the full range of activities—study design, sample design, instrument development and evaluation, pretests and pilot studies, mail surveys, telephone surveys, face-to-face field surveys, record abstraction, focus groups, health registries, and mixed-mode designs. Several of our recent establishment survey projects are highlighted here.
Experience in Europe and Eurasia
RTI has been working in Europe and Eurasia since 1992, having become a leading contract organization for clients such as USAID, the World Bank, and several United Nations agencies, as well as other regional and international organizations and foundations. Our expertise covers the fields of conflict management, mitigation, and reconstruction; democratic governance; education; environmental management; health; information and communication technology; and public finance.
Food and Agricultural Policy Research
Since 1985, RTI has been analyzing and evaluating the effects of policies and regulations affecting the food, agricultural, and dietary supplement industries using a variety of methods and tools. We combine in-depth understanding of the food, agricultural, dietary supplement, and related
industries with a broad range of capabilities.
Forensic Science Research
Forensic science is a critical and rapidly growing field in the United States and abroad. RTI has capabilities in numerous areas if forensic science research, including workplace drug testing, performance testing, post mortem forensic toxicology, forensic operations and reporting systems, data collection and analysis, and drug testing in various biological matrices (i.e., urine, hair, and oral fluids).
Formative and Summative Evaluation for Pandemic Influenza Information
RTI International is working with CDC to identify vulnerable populations and investigate the social, psychological, and environmental issues that may affect their resposnes to an influenza pandemic. RTI will then use these findings to assess CDC's materials for communicating information related to pandemic influenza.
Geographical Information Systems for Health Research
RTI provides a full range of geographic information system (GIS) services to support public health, healthcare economics, and epidemiological research. Our experts model medical service markets, risk factors for disease, and other health outcomes to support informed decision making. We use a wide range of tools to create desktop and web-based GIS applications to meet specific client requirements.
Geospatial Science and Technology for Public Safety
RTI provides a full range of GIS services to support public safety and crime analysis. Working closely with criminologists and other social scientists, our GIS experts are able to fully understand the research requirements and, with that understanding, develop and implement the best geospatial solution.
Good Governance for Better Health Outcomes (Spanish translation)
Strengthening the pillars of a country’s health system—governance, finance, and operations—is essential to sustaining the impact of interventions and leading to better health outcomes for citizens.
This brochure describes RTI's work in the area of health governance.
Guide to Collaborating with RTI: Technical and Management Support for Heath Promotion Activities 2008 (TAMS)
Under the TAMS contract, RTI will provide the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with “as-needed” services such as assistance conducting assessments, studies, research and demonstration projects, consultation and technical assistance, health education activities, and related support services.
Guide to RTI Collaboration with CDC NCHSTP
RTI is an international leader in statistics, health, social policy, and survey research. With a local office in Atlanta, GA, RTI offers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a full range of public health, epidemiologic, and laboratory research support.
Guide to RTI Collaboration with National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
RTI is an international leader in statistics, health, social policy, and survey research. We are pleased to offer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a full range of public health, epidemiologic, and laboratory research support.
Health and Well-Being of Women, Children, and Families: Project Examples
RTI designs and conducts multidisciplinary research that improves the physical, social, and emotional well-being of women, children, and families. We have research contracts and grants funded by the CDC, Administration for Children and Families, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Education, Office of Population Affairs, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Health Care Access, Delivery, and Organization
RTI’s health services researchers evaluate health care organizations, focusing on internal interactions and the nature of internal/external relationships. We also examine workforce and resource allocations for the delivery of health services (medical and dental), as well as the characteristics of the persons served.
Health Care Financing and Payment
Health services researchers at RTI study policy issues in health care financing
and reimbursement, including the design and evaluation of health care insurance, payment, and financing systems. Paying particular attention to the role of financial incentives in health care, we analyze costs, financial
outcomes, quality, and efficiency.
Health Care Organizations Research
Health care access, delivery, and organization critically influence public health and health care quality, outcomes, and cost. RTI International’s health services researchers evaluate health care organizations, focusing on internal interactions and the nature of internal/external relationships. RTI examines workforce and resource allocations for the delivery of health services, the characteristics of the persons served, and the interplay of these factors. We explore access of special populations to health services and the reduction in health disparities by race/ethnicity, disability or health status, and socioeconomic factors.
Health Care Quality and Outcomes
RTI measures and evaluates health care quality from numerous perspectives, including those of providers, payers, delivery systems, and patients/consumers. We develop models and indices to understand clinical interventions and organizational processes and their impact on patient
outcomes, and we examine the effect of policy initiatives on the quality of health care services for populations and individuals.
Health Communication and Marketing
Overview of how RTI’s research in health and risk communication helps clients convey crucial health information to diverse populations. RTI uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. These include formative message development, focus groups, and case studies, materials design, cognitive and usability testing, process and outcome evaluations, expeimentally designed studies, and large-scale data collection and statistical analysis.
Health Communication Research to Support HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
RTI International, through its research programs in the areas of health promotion and health communication, offers a range of research expertise to develop, support, and evaluate strategic health communications for HIV prevention and treatment.
Health Communication: Research Highlights
RTI conducts research related to promoting effective communication, informed decision making, and healthy behaviors. To develop, test, disseminate, and evaluate informational messages directed at a target audience, we use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Health Economics
Health Preference Assessment
HIV Care and Treatment
Government and private-sector clients around the world rely on RTI for independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous research in support of the care and treatment of people living with HIV. We recognize the importance of an integrated model of care and treatment, and we have the expertise to help clients develop and implement broad-based, multi-sectoral approaches to caring for HIV-infected adults and children.
HIV Drug Development and Therapeutics
Government and private-sector clients around the world rely on RTI for independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous research in support of the development of HIV drugs and therapeutics. We offer expertise in microbicides, immunization and vaccinology, and drug development.
HIV Prevention
Government and private-sector clients around the world rely on RTI for independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous research and technical services in support of HIV prevention programs.
HIV Program Support and Infrastructure
RTI helps governments, NGOs, and communities implement and scale up programs, making the best use of recent increases in funding for the global fight against AIDS. Our technical support helps close gaps in capacity and overcome obstacles that impede the expansion of prevention, treatment, and care programs.
Homeland Security
RTI's expertise in homeland security issues spans multiagency coordination and response, bioterrorism preparedness, health security, epidemiology, criminology and law enforcement, cyber security, economic analysis and modeling, immigration and population studies, data mining and predictive analytics, and survey research and geospatial modeling.
Immunization and Vaccinology Research at RTI
RTI International has the multifaceted knowledge and experience to help public health officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders in the field of immunization and vaccinology unravel the complicated network of factors that affect the development of vaccines and their introduction and use in real-world settings. Our capabilities span the basic sciences, policy and program evaluation, epidemiology, statistics, and surveys.
In Vitro ADME-Tox Services
With more than 30 years of experience conducting DMPK studies, RTI is a leader in the metabolism and pharmacokinetics of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and other xenobiotics in mammalian systems. We offer a variety of standard in vitro ADME-tox studies that can be tailored to client
needs.
In Vitro ADME-Toxicology Services
In Vitro Permeability Models
RTI is a leader in metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies of pharmaceuticals and other xenobiotics in mammalian systems. With more than 30 years of experience conducting drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK) studies, our highly trained scientific staff offers innovative approaches to unique development issues.
Influenza-Related Research at RTI International
Since the emergence of avian influenza (H5N1) in China during the 1990s, health officials worldwide have expressed concern about the potential threat
of pandemic illness. Tapping our broad expertise in the health, social, and statistical sciences, RTI International has conducted numerous studies
involving influenza and other vaccine-related subjects for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies. The projects described here represent RTI’s capabilities in the areas of community preparedness, public health surveillance, health communications, mathematical modeling, economic analysis, and international health.
Innovation and Excellence in Survey Research
Before policy makers decide what steps to take to improve the nation’s drug use problem, they must know the reality. RTI International’s expertise in survey research provides that knowledge for informed decisions. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the federal government’s primary source of national data on the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances. While providing annual national and state-level prevalence estimates, the survey also focuses on related topics, such
as mental health, substance dependence and abuse, and the need for treatment. Sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), NSDUH has been conducted successfully by RTI since 1988.
Intersection of Health Information Technology with Health Services Research
RTI is a leader in innovative health services research, and our health services research program is at the forefront of the President’s Health Information Technology initiative.
Managing Drug Development
RTI International has demonstrated the ability to move promising lead
compounds quickly and effectively through the formulation-optimization,
preclinical and clinical studies required for regulatory approval of new
therapeutics. To accomplish these high quality and timely outcomes,
RTI brings the necessary combination of effective planning, management,
technical and regulatory expertise to the drug development process.
Market Access: Helping You Achieve Commercial Success
Mathematical Modeling
RTI has a unique capacity for building cost-effective mathematical models and conducting virtual experiments for health outcomes. Our researchers use mathematical modeling and simulation techniques to evaluate disease dynamics, biological processes, environmental exposures, social interaction in disease behavior, and associated health outcomes. Application areas include HIV dynamics, substance use, cancer screening, sexually transmitted diseases, and planning for epidemic responses under different scenarios.
Medical Consulting and Writing
Medical Monitoring
Metabolomics
RTI generates and analyzes metabolomic data on behalf of government and commercial clients. By combining expertise in proteomics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, metabolite identification, data housing/repository, and field studies, we can design, conduct, and interpret results of complex metabolomic studies tailored to each client’s specific research needs.
Microscopy and Microanalysis
RTI International provides technical support in the areas of microanalysis and microscopy to pharmaceutical and other commercial clients, as well as state and federal agencies. With a staff of experienced scientists and state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment, RTI conducts rigorous testing and analysis---enabling our clients to have complete confidence in the quality of our results.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a crucial part of strong program planning, implementation, and learning. Building strong and effective M&E requires technical skills, ingenuity, and judgment informed by project and contextual knowledge. RTI provides technical support in these areas, and incorporates our own Web-based tool to facilitate the management and use of M&E information.
Outcomes Research and Regulatory Strategy
Patient-Reported Outcomes
Pharmacovigilance
Product Value Dossiers
Proficiency Testing Program for Alcohol and Drugs in Oral Fluid
As of fall 2007, RTI International is offering laboratories in the United States and Canada a proficiency testing (PT) program for alcohol and drugs in oral fluid. Forensic and research labs have long relied on RTI's Center for Forensic Sciences as a reliable source of PT samples, and many analytical facilities regard RTI as an important part of their quality assurance programs and certification efforts.
Proficiency Testing Programme for Alcohol and Drugs in Oral Fluid
As of fall 2007, RTI International’s Center for Forensic Sciences offering European laboratories a proficiency testing (PT) program for alcohol and drugs in oral fluid. Forensic and research labs have long relied on RTI's Center for Forensic Sciences as a reliable source of PT samples, and many analytical facilities regard RTI as an important part of their quality assurance programmes and certification efforts.
Prospective Observational Studies
Psychometrics
Public Health Economics
RTI applies health economics and operations research to design, implement, analyze, and evaluate health care policy, with special emphasis on public health programs and interventions aimed at eliminating risk factors and improving health and quality of life. We perform cost-of-illness, cost effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, resource-allocation, and prevention-effectiveness analyses. Some of our public health economic studies are described here.
Rawabi: An Economic Growth Strategy for the West Bank
Rawabi, or “the hills” in English, is the first Palestinian planned community and it will take root 9 kilometers outside Ramallah.
Between July and September 2008, RTI engaged with prominent Palestinian leaders of industry, education, and government; collected data; interviewed business stakeholders; mapped the assets of the region; and analyzed several industry sectors in which Palestine has a comparative advantage. At the end of this process, RTI produced a comprehensive economic growth strategy for Rawabi based on emerging realities in Palestine and the
global economy.
Research and Intervention with Children at Risk
RTI conducts research to ensure healthy development of children, from infancy through the transition to adulthood. We work within the child welfare, criminal justice, school, mental health, and community systems that touch at-risk children and their families. Our expertise encompasses the full cycle of research from etiologic studies to program evaluations and policy
assessments. We bring state-of-the-art methods to our research, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Research Services in Biomarkers
For decades, scientists at RTI have been studying the influence of drugs, chemicals, and stressors on specific genes, proteins, and metabolic processes. We develop biomarkers for preclinical and clinical applications, as well as for utilization in epidemiological studies to understand gene-environment interactions.
Risk Assessment to Registration
RTI Analyst
RTI has created an online analysis tool, RTI Analyst, that enables researchers, scientists, and policy makers to process data and view the results in a context-appropriate format. By presenting the analyses in a manner that is tailored to the research question, RTI Analyst provides maximum value to the user.
RTI Indonesia
RTI has been active in Indonesia for the past 25 years, and in 1996, we opened a permanent office in Jakarta. Today, the RTI Indonesia office employs more than 300 local and international professionals with expertise in participatory planning and local governance, public finance, environmental management, health and education policy and programming, and private sector development.
RTI Research and Services Available to HHS through PSC
RTI International partners with HHS to protect the health of all Americans.
Our experience and expertise, available through the PSC IDIQ, span the broad fields of health, education and child care, employment, and environmental research.
RTI South Africa
RTI's South Africa office was established in September 2000 to expand our work in the region and to increase linkages with local partners and organizations. From its base in Pretoria, it is ideally placed to explore opportunities both in South Africa and more broadly in southern and eastern Africa.
Security and Elections Research
RTI takes a cross-disciplinary approach to research and technical services, making it possible to study homeland and national security, health security, elections and government behavior, and human rights and civil society. We use epidemiological, social science, and survey research methods to provide risk assessments, program evaluations, pilot designs, full-scale studies, and theoretical research.
Small Area Estimation (SAE)
Small area estimation (SAE) is the process of using statistical models to link national or state survey outcome variables, such as disease indicators, to local area predictors, such as county demographic and socioeconomic (SES) variables, so that local area disease prevalence rates can be predicted. Social indicator variables such as age, race/ethnicity, gender, education, income, family structure, and employment status are commonly used to define high-risk subpopulations for targeting health promotion and disease prevention. Under the direction of internationally renowned statistician, Dr. Ralph E. Folsom, an ASA fellow, RTI has been implementing SAE methodology on numerous projects for several years.
Specialty Toxicology and Pharmacology and Preclinical Toxicology Testing
RTI is dedicated to assisting clients develop the appropriate animal models for efficacy and safety testing of their compounds. We design specialty studies and develop unique animal models to ensure the most rapid route to
IND submission.
Substance Abuse Services Cost Analysis Program
RTI has a strong history in the economic analysis of the benefits and costs of treatment programs and health interventions targeted at substance
abuse problems. Our Substance Abuse Services Cost Analysis Program (SASCAP) reliably estimates costs of substance abuse treatment services without excessive burden on treatment programs.
Surveillance and Epidemiological Trends
RTI International supports a wide range of HIV/AIDS epidemiological and clinical activities both in the United States and globally. Our diverse capabilities allow us to conduct research and provide technical assistance in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment.
Survey Research and Data Collection
Targeted Biomarker Platform
Therapeutic Risk Management
Trace Element Speciation and Metallomics
Government agencies and industry rely on RTI to solve real-world, trace
element speciation problems. Using state-of-the-art instrumentation, our experts develop and apply unique qualitative and quantitative methods to determine trace elements in environmental, biological, geological, and clinical samples.
Trace Metals Analysis in Support of Environmental Research
RTI performs trace metals analyses and methods development research in
support of many types of environmental research. We work for federal, state, and local agencies, as well as commercial companies to monitor the health of the food chain and support compliance with environmental regulations.
Trace Metals Analysis in Support of the Health Sciences
RTI performs trace metals analyses and methods development research in
support of many types of health research. We work for federal, state, and local agencies, as well as universities and commercial companies. Our clients rely on RTI’s national reputation for excellence to meet their need for timely and accurate results.
Using RTI Trinity Site to Identify Potential Pre-Terror Attack Activities
RTI has developed Trinity Sight, a methodology for preparing and analyzing data on violent crime. Trinity Sight provides integrated analysis of the time, space, and nature of suspicious incidents. We have used this methodology to evaluate over a million 911 call records, identifying several hundred incidents indicative of pre-attack surveillance activity.
Water and Sanitation
RTI International has conducted projects in water and sanitation planning, utility management, local government service delivery and financing, environmental health, and water resource management. We have built a reputation for excellence in program design, implementation, and evaluation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), The World Bank, United Nations agencies, and
private sector clients.
Project Case Study
2005 Census of Medical Examiners and Coroners (CMEC)
Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, RTI supported the 2005 Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices (CMEC). This project sought to develop improved information on the capabilities of U.S. medical examiners and coroners and the types of data systems and record retention procedures they use, as well as to identify the resource needs of these offices.
Alcohol and Tobacco Use among Junior Sailors and Airmen
RTI is collaborating with researchers from the University of Kentucky
to conduct a comprehensive, longitudinal study of alcohol and tobacco use among approximately 5,000 sailors and airmen at five military installations.
Benin, Comé, Fostering public private partnerships in Benin. Prepared for the Toolkit for Citizen Participation
As part of RTI International’s Decentralization Support Program funded by USAID, RTI International (Research Triangle Institute) is awarding a series of micro-projects to help commune authorities meet some of the critical needs in social and economic sectors. Criteria for selection for funding includes having the activity inscribed in the communal development plan developed by the commune in conjunction with active citizen participation, significant matching contribution and a strategy for sustainability. Benin is one of many West African countries that are transitioning from a centralized top-down structure to decentralized government that aims to have local citizens take more responsibility in all aspects of their community. Like most West African countries, Benin is economically poor with a per capita gross domestic product of $1,070 and a ranking of 161 out of 177 nations in the 2004 United Nations Human Development Index. In 1999 Benin legislation was passed to implement decentralization and, though progress has not been easy, change is under way. Under the old system the Sous-Préfet – someone named by the central authorities and not beholding to the local constituents but rather to the central political powers – had the leadership role for local development. Now it is the Mayor and the rest of the elected local councilors. The history of top-down development in projects designed at people or worse initiated for other aims. Now with a bottom-up approach, citizens help assess their own needs and priorities and help elected officials in determining which activities become realities. This approach not only helps make better use of limited resources but, with the ownership of the activities clearly in the hands of the local citizenry, increases likelihood of activity success and maintenance to sustain investments. Responding to the needs of the citizens also should help the locally elected Mayor and Councilors maintain their jobs – not always a critical factor for the old Sous-Préfet.
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Best- Evidence Woman-Focused HIV Prevention
RTI International has developed, implemented, and evaluated innovative interventions that target hard-to-reach populations, such as crack-using urban African-American women in North Carolina and black/African and coloured women in South Africa.
Building Foundations for Local Governance in Iraq
Under two USAID contracts, RTI has been working in Iraq to build capacity in local government and to increase citizen participation during the transition to a democratic system. Through these projects, RTI’s reach has extended into all 18 provinces.
Building Local Governments to Stabilize Kosovo
Building on its work across Eastern Europe over the past 15 years, RTI International has assisted Kosovo in strengthening legislation for decentralized government, building local leaders’ management capacity, and meeting citizens’ service needs.
Camptothecin Timeline: From Nature to Bench to Bedside
Graphical representation of the key events in the discovery and development of camptothecin.
Campus Sexual Assault Study
Funded by the National Institute of Justice, RTI conducted the Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study to examine the prevalence, nature, and reporting of sexual assault on college campuses in an effort to inform the development of targeted intervention strategies.
Civil Society Development: Learning from Ninawa
This brief examines efforts of the Iraq Local Governance Program to strengthen the local governance in Iraq and presents lessons that may be applicable to other interventions in failed states and postconflict societies.
Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (C-POL)
RTI International is serving as the data coordinating center for a trial examining the effi cacy of a community-level intervention to reduce HIV/STD incidence and high-risk behaviors in China, India, Peru, Russia, and Zimbabwe.
Communities Powering Moroccan Government
Under the Local Governance Program in Morocco, RTI is working to strengthen government officials’ capabilities at every level in participatory planning, service delivery, transparency, and accountability to the public. LGP has worked with the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, and the governments of seven provinces and 26 communes to
make effective local governments a force, not a stumbling block, for sustainable development in Morocco.
Creating Representative Councils in Baghdad
This brief examines efforts of the Iraq Local Governance Program to strengthen the local governance in Iraq and presents lessons that may be applicable to other interventions in failed states and postconflict societies.
Developing an IPV Module for the National Violent Death Reporting System
On behalf of the CDC, RTI is developing a module for a multi-state reporting system that collects data on violent deaths. This module will produce
attainable, useful, and practical data elements on deaths committed by an intimate partner.
Developing Effective HIV Interventions for High-Risk Women in South Africa
Since 1994, RTI has led several studies in community-based international research. This document describes four RTI-led projects to design, implement, and evaluate prevention interventions to reduce substance use, HIV risk behaviors, and sex-related violence among women.
DoD Surveys of Health-Related Behaviors Among Active Duty Military Personnel
For more than 20 years, RTI has conducted surveys related to the DoD Lifestyle Assessment Program (DLAP) under the guidance of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and the TRICARE Management Activity. These surveys assess the prevalence of alcohol, illicit drug, and tobacco use, as well as negative consequences associated with substance use and critical assessments of emotional stress and other issues.
DoD Surveys of Health-Related Behaviors Among Guard/Reserve Military Personnel
For more than 20 years, RTI has conducted surveys related to the DoD Lifestyle Assessment Program under the guidance of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and the TRICARE Management Activity. In 2006 a new survey expanded the population base beyond the active duty force to incorporate the Guard/Reserve components of the military.
EdData II: Education Data for Decision-Making (Spanish translation)
EdData II, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), provides survey expertise to help national and local governments as well as the donor community to assess education status and to design methods for improvement.
Education Quality Improvements in Indonesia: Learning to Better Manage Education Services
In April 2005, RTI International began implementing a 5-year USAID program to support decentralized education management in Indonesia. As prime contractor, RTI is helping local governments in seven Indonesian provinces improve management systems, develop and implement more efficient and equitable systems of education finance, enhance community participation in education governance, and strengthen private-sector support for education.
Effective, Accountable Local Governance in Bulgaria
Like many other countries in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria began its transition to democracy in 1990. In the early years, the country established the basic institutions of democracy, including local governments with elected mayors and councils. This flyer describes RTI's accomplishments under the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Local Government Initiative (LGI). Since 1997, RTI has worked on issues such as encouraging citizen participation, strengthening fledgling municipal associations, and improving municipal finance.
Egypt: Girls at the Center of Education Reform
In collaboration with the government of Egypt, with funding from the USAID, RTI International began implementing the 3-year Girls’ Improved Learning
Outcomes (GILO) project in February 2008 to provide access to quality education in several communities with low school enrollment for girls. GILO will support the implementation of Egypt’s strategy of school-based reform
in local communities by helping to improve learning outcomes in an estimated 2,700–3,000 primary and preparatory classrooms by 2011.
Environmental Health IQC
As part of the Environmental Health IQC team, RTI supports USAID’s
Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project and Environmental Health
Project (EHP). The goal of these efforts is to reduce exposure to infectious and toxic agents that cause disease and to physical forces that cause injury.
Evaluating the Usability of the U.S. Navy’s Web-Based Performance Management System
On behalf of the Navy Personnel Command and the Navy Human Performance
Center, RTI studied the usability of two electronic performance appraisal systems. We tested the systems’ usability, recommended system modifications, and retested to ensure that the changes actually reduced the number and duration of usability errors.
Evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
RTI evaluated the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, conducting conducted a comprehensive cross-site evaluation and supporting consortia of local evaluators who conducted independent evaluations. The goal of these complementary evaluation strategies was to assess the effectiveness of collaborative community efforts to promote safe schools and facilitate healthy child and adolescent development.
Girls Study Group
In 2004, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded the Girls Study Group project to RTI. GSG activities include a comprehensive literature review, a review of programs targeting girls’ delinquency, a review of screening and assessment instruments, and development of best practices program models for girls.
Good Governance for Better Health Outcomes
Health interventions in under-served and under-resourced communities world-wide often work around the deficiencies in a country’s health system to improve service delivery. RTI is strengthening the pillars of countries’ health systems—governance, finance, and operations—around the world to sustain the impact of such interventions to ensure better health outcomes for citizens.
Health Surveillance Research in Foreign Military Populations
The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) conducts research to improve the health and readiness of a worldwide deployed force of over 725,000 active-duty and reserve Sailors and Marines. Through the study Health Surveillance Research in Foreign Military Populations, RTI International is assisting NHRC staff of the U.S. Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
(DHAPP) in developing and implementing an HIV Behavioral Health Surveillance Program for the armed forces in Mozambique and Uganda.
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care for Most At-Risk Populations: Averting an Epidemic in Pakistan
With funding from USAID, RTI International is working to help contain the spread of HIV/AIDS in Pakistan. This 3-year project is operating in major urban areas and high-risk cities and will support a larger effort in Pakistan to contain the spread of the virus before it becomes rooted in the general population.
ICT Improves Patient Care in Africa
The Zambian Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS), a Web-based electronic medical records and referral system, is one of the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa. ZEPRS was developed by RTI, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Today, ZEPRS is helping medical personnel to improve care, combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, and manage records for perinatal patients and infants.
Improving Health Care Delivery in Bangladesh
RTI is working with partner organizations throughout Bangladesh to identify clients who most need family planning, maternal and child health care, medicines, and other curative services. Through two innovative approaches -- health benefit cards and health equity funds -- RTI is helping 32 NGOs and 320 clinics deliver care to Bangladesh’s most needy citizens while building the NGOs’ capabilities for financial sustainability.
Improving Local Governance for Better Health Care in the Philippines
RTI is promoting the devolution process of the health sector in the Philippines by strengthening health systems management, financing, and service delivery in over 550 Local Government Units, located in 23 provinces across the country's three major island groups.
Increasing Access to HIV Counseling, Testing, and Care Services in Rural Clinical Settings in Uganda
RTI in partnership with AIDS Health Care Foundation is implementing a 5-year program in HIV counseling and Testing and basic carein 8 Ugandan hospitals and clinics.
Increasing Equity in Education in South Africa
Since 1998 RTI has worked to help improve the quality of primary education in South Africa. Under the Integrated Education Program, we continue to provide a broad range of education assistance in furtherance of this same goal. The program's primary objective is to achieve improved student performance in numeracy, literacy, mathematics, and science in participating schools.
Insecticide-Spraying to Control Malaria in Africa
RTI International has been working for over 12 years to prevent and control vector-borne diseases such as malaria, and is currently implementing three IRS projects— a 5-year (2006–2011) IRS Task Order covering 13 countries;
a 1-year (2008–2009) IRS Task Order specifically focused on Kenya; and a 5-year (2006–2011) National Malaria Control Programme in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
a 1-year (2008–2009) IRS Task Order specifically focused on Kenya; and a 5-year (2006–2011) National Malaria Control Programme in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Integrated Vector Management for Malaria Control
RTI provides technical and management support to malaria vector control programs in a growing list of countries in Africa and Asia. RTI also supports continued technical development of IVM through collaboration with international institutions, operations research, and dissemination of research and program results.
Interagency Coordination and Response: Case Study of July 2005 London Terrorist Attacks
building on previous work to identify a general model of coordinated response in crisis events, RTI studied events surrounding
the July 2005 attacks in London. Results demonstrated that London’s approach to coordination—characterized by a high level of preplanning,
joint exercises, and regular improvement through constant use—helped to minimize the effects of common coordination barriers during the response.
Local Economic Development: The At Ta'mim Experience
The USAID/Iraq LGP, implemented by RTI International, provided training, technical assistance, and other resources to establish, develop, and strengthen a participatory, democratic, subnational government that delivers effective and efficient services to Iraqis. This brief describes the program's experience in helping launch a Local Economic and Workforce Development initiative in the governorate of At Ta'mim, as well as lessons learned from that experience.
Local Governments Play Key Role in Building Democracy in Indonesia
For more than 20 years and extending over 5 consecutive programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), RTI International has worked to create a foundation for effective and accountable democratic governance in Indonesia. The most recent contract -- Local Governance Support Program (LGSP) -- is aimed at fostering an environment in which local governments are responsive to citizens' needs by delivering services and governing in an effective and transparent manner.
Mali, 122 communes in Bamako, Koulikoro, Sikasso, Segou and Mopti regions, Promoting Citizen-Local Government Partnership. Prepared for the Toolkit for Citizen Participation.
Newly elected officials and civil society leaders have limited experience and knowledge regarding their roles in financial resource management, effective service provision and delivery and transparency in local governance Objective: To further Mali’s reform process by building trust between local authorities and citizens. The training targeted both elected officials and community leaders, providing them the information and methodologies needed to become partners in local development.
Mental Health Issues Among Deployed Personnel: Longitudinal Assessment of the Resilience of Transitioning Military Personnel
This study is designed to characterize the direct impact of combat exposure on mental health outcomes among Marines and Sailors in transition from active duty to civilian life and to examine the interrelationships between
combat exposure, a variety of moderators, and subsequent psychological resilience, mental health symptoms, and substance abuse. RTI International, together with the Naval Health Research Center, will examine a number of specific hypotheses regarding the effects of individual risk and protective factors on mental health outcomes.
Military-Civilian Cooperation in Postwar Iraq: Experience with Local Governance Reconstruction
This brief examines efforts of the Iraq Local Governance Program to strengthen the local governance in Iraq and presents lessons that may be applicable to other interventions in failed states and postconflict societies.
Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation
Working with the Urban Institute and the Center for Court Innovation, RTI is conducting a rigorous 5-year national evaluation of the impact of drug courts on behalf of the National Institute of Justice. The objective is to analyze the effects of different drug court models on participant outcomes.
Multi-Site Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative is a collaborative federal effort to improve prisoner reentry outcomes. On behalf of the National Institute of Justice, RTI is evaluating the overall effectiveness of the initiative across 69 states/local sites.
National Inmate Survey
RTI International has conducted research on crime, violence, justice systems, and behavioral health for over 30 years. Using rigorous multidisciplinary approaches, RTI research advances knowledge and informs policy, practice, and programs nationally and internationally.
Neglected Tropical Disease Program
In September 2006, the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) launched the Neglected Tropical Disease
(NTD) Control Program, the first global effort to support
country programs to integrate and scale up delivery of preventive
chemotherapy for five targeted NTDs: lymphatic filariasis,
schistosomiasis, trachoma, onchocerciasis and soil-transmitted
helminthiasis.
Postconflict Restoration of Essential Public Services: The Al Basrah Experience
During Saddam Hussein’s regime, local government had little autonomy in service delivery and financial management. Following the U.S.-led overthrow of the regime, a key objective was to quickly get services in place and functional in order to avert a humanitarian crisis. The Iraq Local Governance Program (LGP) worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the military, municipal service-delivery departments, and other U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects to restore basic services in Al Basrah.
Project Safe Neighborhoods
Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Project Safe Neighborhoods seeks to reduce gun violence by improving strategic coordination across federal, state, and local agencies in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. RTI serves as a PSN research partner, collecting and analyzing firearm-related data to gain an improved understanding of gun violence in North Carolina communities.
Psychometric and Sampling Support for Navy Personnel Surveys
RTI conducted a psychometric evaluation of the Navy-Wide
Personnel Survey and assisted with sampling for several surveys of Navy personnel, including the Navy QOL Survey, Navy Quick Polls, and a follow-up survey to evaluate the Sexual Assault Victim Intervention program. These studies were conducted on behalf of Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology---the Navy’s manpower and personnel research laboratory.
Reducing Alcohol Use in a Military Population
In 2004 DoD awarded RTI a roughly $1.5 million, 4-year contract to compare two motivational interviewing (MI) interventions with the Substance Abuse Seminar, or treatment as usual (TAU) intervention. This document describes RTI's research under this contract.
RTI and Eastman Chemical Demonstrate High-Temperature Syngas Cleanup Technology
RTI and Eastman Chemical Company have developed a novel, high-temperature technology package for removing various contaminants contained in syngas derived from coal and petroleum coke. Developed with support from the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, this technology has been extensively field tested at Eastman’s Kingsport, Tennessee, gasification facility.
Spouse Abuse, Child Abuse, and Substance Abuse among Army Families
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, RTI is conducting a study of Army families to determine if there is a connection between spouse abuse, child abuse, and substance abuse. The study is also assessing the level of coordination among service providers who address these complementary problems in military settings.
Strengthening Community Networks to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in Karnataka, India
RTI International researchers at the Women’s Global Health Imperative (WGHI) are helping develop and test an intervention designed to prevent to prevent intimate partner violence in urban slum communities in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka, India.
Strengthening Indonesia's Decentralization
The USAID-supported PERFORM Project, which began in early 2001, was ideally placed to take a lead role among donors in providing assistance to Indonesia. With a network of employees stretching across seven provinces, PERFORM is using participatory planning to assist 80 local governments in the creation of multiyear investment programs. At the central level, PERFORM has advisors placed in strategic positions within two key ministries: the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is responsible for "administrative decentralization"; and in the Ministry of Finance, responsible for "fiscal decentralization." PERFORM continues to mediate the relationship between the central, provincial and local governments, and local stakeholders via this approach.
Studies of the Biodiversity of Jordan
RTI has been collaborating with a team of Jordanian scientists on a research project that has the potential to make a positive impact on Jordan through the discovery of new medicines. Important aspects of this pursuit focus on assessing the country’s under-studied biodiversity and transferring cutting-edge technology to a cadre of Jordanian scientists, which will enhance Jordan’s research capacity and infrastructure.
Supporting Early Detection of Gender-Based Violence in Karnataka, India
RTI International researchers at the Women’s Global Health Imperative (WGHI) are helping to create safe, enabling, institutional environments for women to discuss safety concerns and gender-based violence in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka, India.
Supporting Local Governance in South Africa
Since the early 1990s, RTI has helped South Africa’s municipalities become more effective and democratic. Through the USAID's Local Governance Support Program (LGSP), RTI is continuing this work by helping 23 municipalities improve municipal performance and enhance revenue streams.
Tanzania and Zanzibar: A Model for Fighting Malaria
Through the introduction and scale-up of key malaria prevention and control measures by RTI International and local partners, significant progress is being made in the fight against malaria in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
RTI has been implementing IRS in Zanzibar since 2006. IRS controls malaria by spraying the interior of household structures with a residual insecticide. With funding from the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, RTI has conducted
three spray rounds in Zanzibar—with each application covering over 200,000 houses—achieving more than 90% coverage and protecting an overall population of more than 1 million.
Taxol Timeline: From Nature to Bench to Bedside
Graphical representation of events in the development of taxol, beginning with its discovery by Drs. Monroe Wall and Mansukh Wani of RTI International.
The Greater Mekong Region and China: HIV Policy and Advocacy
The USAID | Health Policy Initiative for the Greater Mekong Region and China (HPI/GMR-C), implemented by RTI International, with support from the Burnet
Institute, is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The project aims to improve the enabling environment for HIV prevention, care, and treatment in the Greater Mekong region and China.
Tobacco Initiation and Cessation among New Soldiers
RTI is collaborating with researchers from the University of Kentucky
to conduct a comprehensive, longitudinal study of tobacco use among approximately 6,000 soldiers. The goal is to provide an in-depth understanding of the causes and predictors of tobacco use in order to improve and shape effective prevention, intervention, and cessation efforts.
Uganda: Transforming Participatory Governance
RTI International, as a subcontractor to the State University of New York Center for International Development, works to connect good-governance champions at every level of Ugandan society to promote public participation in the political process, strengthen institutional transparency and accountability, and improve public service delivery.
Unit Level Influences on Alcohol and Tobacco Misuse
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, RTI is conducting a study of risk and protective factors affecting the misuse of alcohol and tobacco among active duty personnel. The study examines factors at the individual, unit, and installation levels.
Web-Based Alcohol Prevention Education Pilot Project
DoD Survey of Health Related Behaviors has indicated an increase in heavy alcohol use, especially among junior enlisted personnel, since 1998 (Bray et al., 2006). The same survey indicated that heavy drinking among military personnel is related to decreased workplace productivity and increased symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) requested the development and evaluation of a Web-based alcohol education program designed to reduce problem alcohol use in the military. This pilot program, called PATROL (Program for Alcohol Training, Research, and Online Learning), determined the utility of Web-based alcohol education programs for the military and evaluated the effectiveness of two specific Web-based programs originally developed for the civilian population. The TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) sponsored this pilot program.
Weight Management Demonstration Project: HEALTH (Healthy Eating and Active Living in TRICARE Households)
RTI is working with Cooper Institute to conduct HEALTH (Healthy Eating and Active Living in TRICARE Households), a scientifically based behavioral intervention weight loss program for eligible TRICARE Prime non-active duty beneficiaries. More than 2,400 TRICARE Prime beneficiaries are participating in two studies, including a randomized controlled trial, to evaluate the efficacy of behavioral lifestyle interventions to help people manage their body weight.
Women and Local Governance in Iraq: Fostering Participation and Empowerment
Successful postconflict resolution and development must take into account the role of previously disenfranchised or otherwise neglected groups in society. In many societies, focusing on the role of women and seeking to promote women’s participation and empowerment are among the most important issues to address. Coalition policy makers in postwar Iraq actively sought to promote women’s issues and expand women’s involvement in social, political, economic, and bureaucratic arenas. The Local Governance Program (LGP) sought to increase women’s involvement in local governance and worked to expand women’s representation in local councils and their ability to organize and advocate for their needs through civil society organizations (CSOs).
Annual Report
2001 Annual Report: Turning Knowledge Into Practice
RTI's mission is to ensure that our discoveries, innovations, and research findings ripple throughout society to improve the human condition. Our 2001 Annual Report provides highlights of our work to turn knowledge into practice and, in the process, improve the lives of people around the world.
2002 Annual Report: Objectivity, Responsiveness, Collaboration, Knowledge, Innovation
RTI's mission is to ensure that our discoveries, innovations, and research findings ripple throughout society to improve the human condition. Our 2002 Annual Report provides highlights of our work to turn knowledge into practice and, in the process, improve the lives of people around the world.
2003 Annual Report: Expanding Our Reach
In 2003, RTI broadened its services as well as its international reach. We worked in new locations, engaged new clients, and added 235 new staff members. The 2003 Annual Report describes the exciting and challenging projects and accomplishments of 2003 that helped us fulfill our mission to improve the human condition.
2004 Annual Report: Solutions for a Changing World
In 2004, RTI researchers provided solutions to complex environmental problems, continued to search for promising new medicines, helped countries create better education and local governance systems, and made plans to spin off a portion of our thermoelectrics group to commercialize a promising new technology.
2005 Annual Report: Improving the Human Condition
The impact of RTI International’s research -- from our efforts to discover new medicines and develop new energy sources to our assistance in promoting democratic governance -- is felt around the globe. Our annual report highlights some of our most significant achievements during 2005, describing how we are improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.
2006 Annual Report: Commitment to Excellence
For more than 48 years, RTI International has been committed to making a positive impact in the world by conducting social and scientific research that improves the human condition. In 2006, we continued that tradition though our implementation of projects in more than 40 countries and in the United States.
2007 Annual Report: Grounded in Science. Global in Reach
Knowledge and science are one and the same. Through nearly 50 years of experience and objective research, RTI has honed its social, economic, statistical, chemical, biological, environmental, electronic, and engineering knowledge and applied that knowledge to solve problems and generate information that drives decisions, policies, and practices around the globe.
2008 Annual Report: Celebrating 50 Years of Turning Knowledge into Practice
Since our founding in 1958, thousands of dedicated RTI staff members have pledged themselves to our mission of conducting research and providing technical services that improve the human condition.
This year, we are proudly celebrating 50 years of turning knowledge into practice.
We owe every achievement in FY2008 to the teamwork and technical innovation of our staff, and we honor their dedication to the pursuit of independent inquiry, objectivity, and excellence across an extraordinary range of projects.