RAND Health Organization
Office of the Director
Vice President and Director, Robert H. Brook (Clayton Mathis)Associate Director, Paul Koegel (Mariana Horta)
Associate Director, Beth McGlynn (Mary Kuderka)
Director of Administration & Research Coordination, Kris Giordano (Clayton Mathis)
Communications Director, Mary Vaiana (Dana Torres)
Deputy Communications Director, David Adamson
Deputy Communications Director, Kristin Leuschner
Development Officer, Mary Irvine (Michelle McKenzie)
Quality Assurance Coordinator, Suzanne Wenzel (Mariana Horta)
Programs:
RAND Health research studies are coordinated through three programs and four strategic initiatives. The programs focus on long-standing core areas of RAND Health's policy research expertise: quality assessment and improvement; health care economics, organization, and finance; and health promotion and disease prevention. The strategic initiatives focus on policy research in areas that involve high-profile and crosscutting issues (Project COMPARE); important emerging issues (global health and public health preparedness); or special client relationships (military health).
Economics, Finance, and Organization
Program Director, Dana Goldman (Ingrid Maples)
This program addresses issues related to the financing and delivery of health care services, health insurance, organization and regulation of health care markets and providers, health-related behaviors from an economic perspective, and distributional issues in health and health care.
Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement
Program Director, Paul Shekelle (Jason Carter)
This program addresses issues related to developing measures of health system performance across multiple dimensions; evaluating the performance of the health system for different population subgroups, facilities, systems, and health professionals; developing and evaluating the effect of interventions to improve the delivery of health care services; and systematically summarizing findings in the scientific literature.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Program Director, Rebecca Collins (Kathleen Cutsforth)
This program addresses issues related to measuring healthy and unhealthy behaviors, identifying what causes or influences such behaviors, examining the distribution of health behaviors across population subgroups, and designing and evaluating interventions to improve health behaviors.
Strategic Initiatives:
COMPARE
Co-leader, Beth McGlynn (Mary Kuderka)
Co-leader, Jeffrey Wasserman (Leigh Rohr)
COMPARE, a strategic initiative that arose from planning exercises undertaken by the RAND Health Board of Advisors, the RAND Board of Trustees, and RAND senior management. The purpose of the initiative is to provide objective facts and analyses to inform discussions by policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public about options for improving the functioning of the U.S. health care system.
Global Health
Leader, Ross Anthony (Patricia Pinheiro)
Global Health is a strategic initiative that addresses issues related to health as foreign policy, supporting health system development, global health, and building RAND Health's portfolio of work throughout the world.
Public Health Preparedness
Leader, Nicole Lurie (Robin Cole)Public Health Preparedness is a strategic initiative that seeks to minimize the population's risks from public health emergencies by improving the capability of public health systems to anticipate and respond to such emergencies.
Military Health
Co-leader, Terri Tanielian (Samantha Abernethy)
Co-leader, Susan Hosek (Catherine Cruz)
Military Health is a strategic initiative that addresses health policy issues faced by our key national security clients and identifies opportunities to collaborate on policy issues affecting persons currently or previously serving in the military.
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