Biography

Dr. Golinelli, after completing her dissertation in August 2000, took a visiting assistant professor position at the Department of Mathematics and Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics, University of Southern California. In August 2002, she joined RAND as an associate statistician. Dr Golinelli methodological research interests focus on the development of inferential methods for stochastic population models, in particular hidden Markov models or partially observed stochastic population processes, and Bayesian statistics. She has applied these methods in hematology to inform the development of new cancer treatments. Since joining RAND, she has been involved in several health policy research projects. In particular, she is collaborating with Drs Wenzel and Tucker on a project that determines the correlates of HIV risk behaviors and the impact of HIV risk behaviors on health outcomes among low-income housed and homeless women.She is also the project statistician for a study, led by Dr Bird, that examines the relationships between gender, gender of sexual partners, use of HAART and other utilization, and sexual risk behavior in a sample of HIV positive individuals.