RTI International

For more than 25 years, RTI International experts have helped clients build resilient health systems and improve public health. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working quickly to lessen its impact. Although COVID-19 is a novel virus presenting unprecedented challenges, RTI offers broad and deep experience to address a variety of public health threats—including Ebola, Zika, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV—and improving the underlying systems where they occur and the effects they leave in their wake.

We have collected our work around COVID-19 as a centralized resource and will update as new work is completed and additional insights are developed.

Expert Perspectives on Coronavirus & COVID-19:

In the Face of COVID-19, We Must Keep Malaria Programming as a Priority

COVID-19 Model Updates 

Buying Time: Time for the U.S. Southeast to Shelter in Place

How COVID-19 Affects Educators and Operational Staff

COVID-19 Proves We Need More Than Strong Health Systems

Telehealth for Addiction: Online Support Groups in the Age of COVID-19

How Wearable Sensors Can Change the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Supporting Interoperability During A Pandemic

COVID-19 Proves We Need More Than Strong Health Systems

Updated Guidance on Using Telehealth During This Public Health Emergency

Using Telehealth to Fight the Novel Coronavirus

The Outbreak of COVID-19: An Expert Interview with Pia MacDonald

Behind Sheltered Doors, Women’s Silence Can Be Deadly

Dr. Doris Rouse Joins COVID-19 Public-Private Partnership Initiative Led by National Institutes of Health

Social Media Analysis Describes Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Strategies Being Used to Counter It

North Carolina Modeling Infectious Diseases (NC MInD) Program: Our Innovative Modeling Plan to Combat Healthcare-associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in North Carolina 

RTI to Leverage Its Current Health Care Facility Network Model to Simulate the Spread of COVID-19 

Use of Twitter social media activity as a proxy for human mobility to predict the spatiotemporal spread of 2019 novel coronavirus at global level 

Geolocation Study: Public Health Officials Should Prepare for Coronavirus in New Locations 

RTI Surveyed 1,000 Americans about Awareness, Perceptions of COVID-19

Our IMPACT is defined by the results of the projects we tackle on behalf of clients around the world. We share our findings through peer-reviewed publications, presentations at scientific conferences, and public release to the media.

Each year, our researchers are published in more than 600 journal articles, reports, conference proceedings, books, chapters and other publications. As scientists, researchers and thought leaders, contributing to the advancement of our fields comes second only to the pursuit of our mission. Through these efforts, we strive to communicate the results of our independent, objective research as a way of advancing our understanding of the world and informing decisions that will carry us into a better future.

We view each project—regardless of size—as an opportunity to drive positive change through new information, best practices, novel methods, and an integrated, multidisciplinary approach. No matter what our projects demand or where they take us, we bring a deep commitment to exceeding our clients’ expectations and a strong sense of mission shared

We maintain offices around the world to support our ongoing projects and the evolving needs of our clients and the communities and individuals they serve. We have designed and implemented projects in more than 140 countries and have more than 50 years of international experience.

Embracing the differing worldviews created by diverse backgrounds

At RTI we recognize that diverse backgrounds inform different views that help create a hub of ideas that drive our pursuit of world-changing innovations. Our cultural, ethnic, gender and intellectual diversity helps generate opportunities to foster creative solutions and teamwork.

Fulfilling our potential through respect, equity and value

From our research, to community involvement, to outreach, we apply our principles of diversity and inclusion globally at every level and function of our organization. Our commitment to honoring these principles has helped us create a diverse team that uses an inclusive environment as a springboard to improving the human condition. We have also turned a lens on ourselves, reaching out to employees to ask for their views on diversity and inclusion at RTI and how they would like to see their organization grow.

The result of our efforts? Skyrocketing employee engagement and a leadership culture shift unlike ever before. When our staff sees something they think doesn’t live up to the diversity and inclusion (D&I) ideals we’ve set forth, we encourage them to not only say something but to do something. Some of these workplace champions see their work commemorated with a D&I in Action award, while others benefit from the overarching improvements to the RTI community.

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide employees with opportunities to network and engage in advocacy

Each of our ERGs serves as a community in which members voluntarily contribute their shared knowledge and collective experiences to enhance professional growth, promote multicultural understanding, and positively affect the RTI mission. The ERGs offer a forum for members to discuss relevant challenges and opportunities, and they enable joint efforts around common areas of interest. ERG activities include hosting speaker series, performing community service, organizing and attending professional development conferences, and leading diversity celebrations.

Accessibility ERG (ACCESS)

Asian American ERG (AAG)

Black Employee Resource Group (BERG)

Hispanic ERG (UNA Comunidad)

LGBTQ and Allies ERG (RTI PRIDE)

RTI Veterans and Allies ERG (VALoR)

Special Needs Caregivers ERG (SNC)

Telecommuter Network ERG (TeleWork)

Women’s Advancement, Leadership and Success ERG (WALS)

Working Parents ERG (WPG)

Young Professionals ERG (YP)

By combining the intellectual talents of leading scientists and experts across key practice areas, we are able to address some of the world’s most complex scientific and social challenges. We lead projects on behalf of a range of clients that includes government agencies, academia, foundations, global NGOs, and commercial companies.

Across these areas of practice, we deliver comprehensive services and capabilities in support of the missions and goals of our clients.

Driven by our own mission to improve the human condition, we seek to create and apply programmatic and technological solutions that will make a positive difference around the world.

If you’re looking for a place where you can make an impact and join a diverse team looking to make a difference around the world, RTI is the place for you.

We share your drive to make the world better. To solve challenges facing science and society. To learn and grow in a diverse and inclusive global environment. We make that happen by investing in you—dynamic professional development, employee wellness, world-class benefits. Everything it takes to empower you to accomplish our shared mission.

Explore and learn about our MISSION to improve the human condition, the PEOPLE that make it happen, a CULTURE that drives collaboration and innovation, and the GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT opportunities that help us develop leaders.

Put your knowledge and skills to work to improve the human condition. See what kind of difference you can make at RTI.