The Calverton, Maryland-based Public Services Research Institute (PSRI) applies skills in program development, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, policy analysis, and economic analysis to a range of public health and safety issues. PSRI had its origins as the National Public Services Research Institute, a not-for-profit company founded in 1971 that became a leader in evaluation and human factors research in traffic safety. Today's PSRI has extended that scope. It provides internationally acclaimed research expertise on wide-ranging safety, health, and education topics, notably the epidemiology, costs, and prevention of substance abuse, injury, and violence.

Areas of Expertise

• Impaired driving intervention design and evaluation
• College drinking intervention
• Cross-border drinking and drug use research
• Underage drinking incidence and consequences
• Long-term consequences of prenatal cocaine exposure
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Tobacco policy simulation modeling
• Costs of injury, violence and substance abuse, and the savings from intervention
• Costs of illness
• Injury epidemiology
• Biomechanics of injury
• Occupational injury and substance abuse intervention research
• Safe motorcycling
• Motor vehicle occupant restraint
• School safety and emergency response
• Web-based health education
• Special education
• Flood prevention and recovery
• Randomized controlled trials
• Case-control and case-crossover analyses
• Focus group research
• Survey research
• Portal survey methods
• Sophisticated statistical modeling
• Roadside surveys
• Driver performance testing and observation
• Technical assistance
• Quick-turnaround policy analysis
• Health data coding
• Health care claims data analysis