Biography

Susan D. Hosek is a senior economist, group manager for Economics and Statistics, and co-director of the Center for Military Health Policy Research at the RAND Corporation. Much of her research has focused on military health issues, including benefit design and the demand for health care, medical staff mix, and the organization and management of the military health care system. Other projects have addressed the personal use of pesticides in the Persian Gulf (a potential cause of subsequent health problems), gender differences in federal research grant awards, and the demand for military housing. From 1993 to 2000, she directed a research center within RAND's National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) that focuses on compensation, recruiting and retention, opportunities for minorities and women, health care, family programs, outsourcing and privatization, and the management of defense activities. She served as Research Director of the 2007 President's Commission on Caring for America's Returning Wounded Warriors and was a member of the 2001-2003 President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans. She has taught at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and an M.A. in economics from Northwestern University.