OPRE Insights Blog

Top Ten Products Released in 2024

As we enter 2025, we invite you to peruse our most popular products released in 2024. We hope you’ll take a moment to look back through these highly accessed resources from the past year and share them with colleagues. 

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Insights from measuring the prevalence of labor trafficking in Houston’s construction industry

One type of human trafficking, labor trafficking, is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. OPRE’s HTPRAP project provided the opportunity to explore this issue.

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How and why funders support engaged research: A perspective from a public funder

Funders of science and evidence-related activities are critical players in the overall evidence building and use system. This blog will highlight how funders play an important role in supporting evidence use.

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OPRE’s 2024 in Review

From groundbreaking studies to innovative partnerships, OPRE is leading research, evaluation and data initiatives to inform policies, support programs, and, ultimately, make communities stronger and healthier. 

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Will AI Replace Knowledge Brokers?

New generative AI tools, may offer an easily accessible, quick way for policymakers or practitioners to tap research without waiting for researchers to do a systematic synthesis of the research or even the time it takes to reach out to a researcher to set up a conversation. 

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Announcing the New Office of the Chief Data Officer and Office of Research and Evaluation within OPRE

We are excited to announce that this week we have taken a significant next step by formally creating two new offices under OPRE: the Office of Research and Evaluation  and the Office of the Chief Data Officer. 

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OPRE at APPAM 2024

OPRE is proud to be well-represented at APPAM’s 2024 multi-disciplinary fall research conference, being held in National Harbor, MD, November 21-23, 2024.

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HHS Scientific Integrity Policy and ACF Evaluation Policy

At OPRE and ACF, we work every day to help build evidence that is used to support policy and decision making. We are proud to guide our work by the five principles of the ACF Evaluation Policy: rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics. 

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Building Evidence to Address How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Nature of Work

AI has increasingly been at the forefront of policy and research conversations about the changing nature of work. Learn how OPRE will continue to sponsor rigorous research to address knowledge gaps and build evidence in the changing market.

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Hispanic Heritage Month: A Spotlight on Hispanic and Latino Youth in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs

OPRE, in partnership with FYSB, helps programs collect performance measures data from SRAE programs through the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Performance Analysis Study (SRAE PAS). Explore a snapshot of Hispanic/Latino youth served by SRAE programming.

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