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Westat Awarded Contract to Continue Supporting the PATH StudyFebruary 2024
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)…
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Deborah Jonas Joins Westat as Vice President, Education StudiesFebruary 2024
On Monday, January 29, 2024, Westat welcomed Deborah Jonas, PhD, as the new Education Studies (Ed Studies) Practice Director. Her wealth of experience and exceptional…
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Westat Introduces Data Solutions Sector and Leadership UpdatesJanuary 2024
Effective January 2024, Westat brings together statistical, data science, survey, and data collection activities under the banner of the Data Solutions Sector. The new sector will…
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Modernizing Face-to-Face Surveys: New Sampling Methods
March 19, 2024
Can traditional face-to-face household survey designs be adapted to leverage modern data collection methods and tools? How can researchers improve the cost-effectiveness and statistical efficiency…
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Westat Provides Evidence-Based Data to Help Guide WIC
March 18, 2024
Westat’s Food and Nutrition researchers will be attending the National WIC Association’s 2024 Education and Training Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 7-10. Our team of…
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Westat’s Tobacco & Policy Research Expertise @ SRNT 2024
March 14, 2024
Members of Westat’s Tobacco Studies Group will present their research at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco’s (SRNT’s) 2024 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland,…
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Bigger Cars, Bigger Risks: Pedestrian Safety in Focus
March 14, 2024
Concerned about pedestrian safety in your community? The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has released its annual Spotlight on Highway Safetyreport. Based on preliminary data…
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Reversing the Opioid Epidemic: Medicaid and Medications
March 12, 2024
A new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) report presents information on the availability and access to medications for treating ongoing alcohol use…
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Nourishing Parents, Babies, Kids: WIC by the Numbers
March 4, 2024
How many people receive federal food benefits each year? What is the demographic data behind these numbers? To find out, the Food and Nutrition Service…
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Latest Data on Flu and COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness
March 1, 2024
Interim effectiveness estimates of the 2023-24 influenza and COVID-19 vaccines are now available in 2 VISION 2.0 Network papers, which have been published in the…
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Edwards and Berg Selected Editors-in-Chief of JSSAM
February 23, 2024
Brad Edwards, a Westat Vice President and Lead Scientific/Methodology Advisor, and Emily Berg, PhD, an Associate Professor at Iowa State University, have been selected as…
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How Systems Science Can Inform Dietary Guidelines
February 22, 2024
A new report provides strategies that could add value to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans process and impact, with particular emphasis on the role systems…
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Westat Awarded Contract to Continue Supporting the PATH Study
February 21, 2024
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)…