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RAND Health Organization
Office of the Director
Vice President and Director, Robert H. Brook (Clayton Mathis)
Associate Director, Paul Koegel (Dolly Dahdal)
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
Acting Director of Development, Susan Rice (Michelle McKenzie)
Quality Assurance Coordinator, Lisa Meredith (Dolly Dahdal)
Research Areas:
RAND Health research focuses on six major areas: Economics, Finance, and Organization; Global Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Military Health; Public Health Systems and Preparedness; and Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement. RAND COMPARE is a strategic initiative addressing the special challenges of assessing options for improving the U.S. health care system.
Economics, Finance, and Organization
Acting Director, Rosalie Pacula (Krasimir Karamfilov)
Acting Associate Director, Nicole Maestas (Krasimir Karamfilov)
Work in this area 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.
Global Health
Director, Ross Anthony (Tina Walker)
Associate Director, Marla Haims (Courtney Myers)
Work in this area 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.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Director, Rebecca Collins (Suzanne Benedict)
Work in this area 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.
Military Health
Co-director, Terri Tanielian (Emily Bever)
Co-director, Susan Hosek (Catherine Cruz)
Work in this area 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.
Public Health Systems and Preparedness
Acting Director, Jeffrey Wasserman (Toni Christopher)
Work in this area 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.
Quality Assessment and Improvement
Director, Paul Shekelle (Aneesa Motala)
Work in this area 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.
Strategic Initiative:
COMPARE
Co-leader, Beth McGlynn (Mary Kuderka)Co-leader, Jeffrey Wasserman
COMPARE is 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.
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