Staff

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Joie Acosta
(Ph.D., University of Hawai'i)

Research and evaluation of multi-level comprehensive community initiatives; violence and substance abuse prevention; public health/emergency preparedness and response; adolescent health.

John Adams
(Ph.D., Statistics,
University of Minnesota)

Meta-analysis; statistical methods; sampling and design issues.

David M. Adamson
(Ph.D., English and Rhetoric, University of California, Los Angeles)

Deputy Communications Director, RAND Health. Research communication, document design, audience analysis.

Emma Aguila
(Ph.D., Economics, University College London)

Economics of Aging; Health Economics; Labor Economics; Development Economics.

Julia E. Aledort
(Ph.D., Health Policy,
Harvard University)

Medical decision-making; cost-effectiveness analysis in health technology assessment, public health and prevention; international health policy.

C. Ross Anthony
(Ph.D., Economics,
University of Pennsylvania)

Director of Global Health and Co-Director of the Center for Domestic and International Health Security; health economics; health care finance; military health care; international health care and economic development.

Jeremy Arkes
(Ph.D., Economics,
University of Wisconsin)

Adolescent drug use; prescription drug abuse; teenage pregnancy; effects of divorce on children.

Steven Asch
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Associate Professor of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and UCLA. Quality and access measurement and improvement, HIV care.

Chantal Avila
(M.A., Cognitive Psychology,
Claremont Graduate University)

Research Programmer Analyst; data cleaning; variable construction; documentation and data analysis.

Megan Beckett
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan; MHSA, School of Public Health, University of Michigan)

Aging; social and racial inequalities in health; survey methodology; demography; physician workforce projections.

Ellen Burke Beckjord
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Vermont; M.P.H., Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Cancer prevention and control; health communication; mental health care services; eHealth.

Douglas Bell
(M.D., Harvard; Ph.D., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles; medical informatics; online education; patient safety; practice-based research; evidence-based medicine.

Tanya G. K. Bentley
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University)

Medical decision-making; cost-effectiveness analysis; simulation modeling; health care and health policy evaluation; public health and prevention; social and environmental determinants of health; social, health, and economic effects of illicit drug use.

Claude Berrebi
(Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University;
MBA, Finance, Hebrew University)

Terrorism and conflicts; Defense; Education; Poverty; Military manpower; Health networks; Labor market reforms; Aging and retirement; Workforce; Israel and Middle-East studies.

Sandra Berry
(M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Co-Director, Center for Research on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Sexual Behavior; design and methodology for data collection; management of data collection design and operations; health decisionmaking; behavior/risk assessment/HIV/special-population data collection.

James Bigelow
(Ph.D., Operations Research, Stanford University)

Roles of information technology in health care; cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and systems analysis.

Chloe E. Bird
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Social determinants of health and health care; gender, race and socioeconomic disparities in access to, utilization of, and quality of care; contexual effects on health.

Janice Blanchard
(MD, MPH, Harvard Ph.D., RAND Graduate School)

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University. Interests: racial disparities, vulnerable populations, the uninsured, access to health care.

Ricky Bluthenthal
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Berkeley)

Professor of Sociology and Director, Urban Community Research Center, California State University Dominguez Hills; alcohol and drug use epidemiology, HIV and Hepatitis B and C risk and prevention, community influences on health behaviors and outcomes, and community-based, participatory research.

Rob Boer
(Ph.D., Public Health Epidemiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Medical technology assessment; simulation modeling; cost-effectiveness analysis.

Laura Bogart
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Pittsburgh)

HIV prevention and care; ethnic disparities in health-related attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes.

Samuel Bozzette
(M.D., University of Rochester; M.Phil., Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of International Relations, University of California San Diego. Member, American Association for Clinical Research, Association of American Physicians. Treatment evaluation; cost of care; health status; clinical epidemiology of AIDS and other infectious diseases; bioterrorism.

Robert Brook
(M.D., Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, RWJ/UCLA Clinical Scholars Program; Vice President of RAND and Director, RAND Health; quality of care; appropriateness; rationing; guidelines; health status.

James R. Broyles
(Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University)

Health emergency preparedness; access to healthcare; logistics.

Ryan A. Brown
(Ph.D. Anthropology, Emory University)

Rural and American Indian health; risk-taking; substance use; violence; mental health; global health .

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
(Ph.D., Health Policy & Economics, Harvard University)

Co-Director, Bing Center for Health Economics and Director, Public Sector Initiatives. Health economics; health care financing; health insurance markets; Medicare; "consumer-directed" care; risk selection and risk adjustment; organization and financing of care for the chronically and/or terminally ill.

A. K. Burkhart
(M.S. in Statistics, North Carolina State University)

Access to care; quality assessment and improvement; mental health; prison health care.

Audrey Burnam
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Texas)

Mental health and substances abuse services and policy evaluation; behavioral health quality improvement.

Rachel Burns
(MPH, University of Michigan; BS, Ohio State University)

Mental and behavioral health, psychiatric epidemiology, military health care, substance abuse.

Gary Cecchine
(Ph.D., Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Toxicology; military medicine; environmental health; risk assessment and communication; biotechnology; medical consequences of terrorism.

Edward Chan
(Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University)

Public health preparedness; emergency services; logistics; performance measurement and process improvement; mathematical and computer modeling.

Anita Chandra
(Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Child and adolescent health; mental health services; community–based participatory research and evaluation ; public health systems; school health; military child health; health disparities.

Sandy Chien
(M.S., Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison)

Statistical design, implementation, and analysis.

Matthew J. Chinman
(Ph.D., Clinical/Community Psychology, University of South Carolina)

Substance abuse prevention; dissemination of evidence-based prevention; program evaluation; quality assurance in mental health systems; mutual support; mental health consumers.

Bowen Chung
(M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine/CUNY; M.S.H.S. UCLA School of Public Health)

Community based participatory research; quality of care; quality improvement; children's mental health; health disparities.

Paul Chung
(M.D., Harvard Medical School; M.S., University of Chicago)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA; child health policy, work-family policy, youth advertising..

Deborah Cohen
(M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.P.H., Epidemiology, UCLA )

Public health; social and environmental (structural) risk factors; prevention policy; built environment; physical activity; diet and obesity; STD/HIV and alcohol.

Tumaini Coker
(M.D., Drew/UCLA Medical School, M.B.A., UCLA)

Pediatric preventive care; delivery of well–child care and system redesign; racial/ethnic health disparities.

Rebecca Collins
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

HIV and substance-use prevention; media effects on health behavior; adjustment to illness.

Kristina Cordasco
(M.D.,M.P.H., Johns Hopkins, MSHS, UCLA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Veterans's Health Administration and University of California, Los Angeles; system factors and interventions in health care access and quality; care transitions and coordination; health literacy; caring for patients with limited English proficiency.

Ian Coulter
(Ph.D., Sociology, London School of Economics)

Samueli/RAND Chair for Integrative Medicine; Professor, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles; alternative health care; integrative medicine; chiropractic; oral health.

Alison Cuellar
(Ph.D., Health Services and Policy Analysis, University of California, Berkeley)

Mental health and criminal justice; competition, antitrust; vulnerable populations.

Cheryl Damberg
(Ph.D., Public Policy and Health Services Research, RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies)

Quality of care measurement and evaluation; consumer information/report cards on quality; structure and organization of medical groups; managed care and health economics; evaluating payment incentives for quality; consumer directed health care; patient safety.

Elizabeth D'Amico
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Texas at Austin)

Antecedents and consequences of adolescent and young adult risk-taking behaviors; development and implementation of interventions for youth targeting alcohol and drug use, HIV risk behaviors, and violence and victimization.

Ashlesha Datar
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Child care; child health; early childhood education; social policy.

David J. Dausey
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Yale University)

Program evaluation; performance measurement; public health systems; health services; health policy; public health preparedness; mental health; military health.

Lois Davis
(Ph.D., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Public health and emergency preparedness; prisoner reentry; and public safety..

Kristin Dean
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University)

Project Director, University of Tennessee-Cherokee Health Systems Center of Excellence; child and adolescent mental health; trauma; community mental health; public health preparedness.

Alison H. DeCristofaro
(MPH, University of Texas; PhD, Health Services, UCLA - in progress)

Quality of care evaluation and measurement; maternal and child health; health service organization and delivery.

Adeline Delavande
(Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University)

Applied econometrics; development; labor.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose
(Ph.D., Health Services, and MPH, University of California, Los Angeles)

Underserved populations; community partnerships; faith communities; Latinos; health literacy; social environment, access to health care, and Latin America.

Allison Diamant
(MD Hahnemann University; MSHS University of California, Los Angeles)

Disparities, access to care, quality of care, women's health; health care and sexual orientation.

Andrew Dick
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)

Health care reform; access to and quality of care; financing of care for children; technology assessment and medical decision making.

Tamara Dubowitz
(ScD, Harvard University; SM, Harvard University; MSc, University of Pennsylvania)

Social epidemiology; neighborhood effects on health and nutrition, maternal and child health and nutrition, the effect of social determinants (e.g. racial and socioeconomic residential segregation) on health disparities, especially diet and diet-related disease (i.e. obesity), monitoring and evaluation of programs and interventions.

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Patricia Ebener
(B.A., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)

Substance abuse epidemiology; substance abuse treatment services; substance abuse/social services policy; research-practice partnerships; survey research methods.

Nicole Eberhart
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Mental health; depression; stress.

Maria Edelen
(PhD, University of North Carolina)

Psychometrics, instrument development and validation, quantitative methods (IRT, FA, SEM, LGMM), substance use, mental health.

Rachel M. Effros
(MD, Emory University School of Medicine; MPH, University of California, Los Angeles)

Health system organization and delivery; health care public policy; quality assessment and improvement; access to care

Christine Eibner
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park)

Health insurance access; military health policy; substance abuse; socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Elisa Eiseman
(Ph.D., Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Genetics; cancer research; biotechnology; biomedicine; bioethics; research involving human biospecimens.

David Eisenman
(M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; M.S.H.S., UCLA School of Public Health)

Violence and terrorism; integrated services delivery; international and immigrant health.

Phyllis Ellickson
(Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Adolescent health; substance abuse prevention; patterns, antecedents, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; adolescent/young adult violence; effects of advertising on alcohol use.

Marc Elliott
(Ph.D., Statistics, Rice University)

Substantive: Medicare, racial/ethnic disparities; consumer evaluation of health care; adolescent health; vulnerable populations. Methodological: Sampling, including weights and non-response adjustment; categorical data analysis; case-mix adjustment; multivariate exploratory data analysis; propensity score techniques; experimental design; survey mode effects.

John Engberg
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Non-experimental causal inference; long term care; behavioral health services.

José Escarce
(Ph.D., Health Care Systems, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School; M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

Health economics; physician behavior; managed care; technology diffusion; disparities in health and health care; immigrant health.

David Evans
(Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University)

International health and development; implications of the HIV/AIDS crisis (domestic and international); education in developing nations; children's well-being (domestic and international).

Carol Fan
(Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Michigan)

Public health preparedness; emergency services; logistics; performance measurement and process improvement; mathematical and computer modeling.

Donna O. Farley
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.P.H., Environmental Health Management, University of Illinois)

Co-Director, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute. Research interests in health care markets; financing policy and payment design, Medicare policy, evaluation of program and quality improvement initiatives, military health.

Kevin Feeney
(BA, Economics, University of Chicago)

Healthcare access/markets, health disparity, infectious diseases, mental health.

Brian Karl Finch
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin)

Social epidemiology; social determinants of health; immigrant health; neighborhood effects on health and multilevel analysis.

Gail Fisher
(M.A., Journalism, University of Texas, Austin; M.P.H., Eastern Virginia Medical School)

Military health, social determinants of health and health disparities.

Alexandria Felton
(MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; BA, English, University of California at Santa Barbara)

Health promotion and disease prevention; healthcare access and satisfaction; GIS technology; health information technology; community and culture.

Allen Fremont
(M.D., Dartmouth Medical School; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana)

Disparities in care; quality improvement; geospatial mapping and community effects on healthcare; patient-centered care; organizational change in managed care; community research networks; psychosocial factors and disease.

Mark Friedberg
(M.D., Harvard Medical School, M.P.P. Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government)

Quality of care; health system organization; primary care; integration of health service delivery.

Steven Garber
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin)

Health care markets; effects of law on health; pharmaceutical economics; health care technology adoption; medical malpractice.

Jeffrey Garnett
(M.P.P., Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs)

Health care markets; health promotion and disease prevention; international social and economic issues; HIV prevention; pharmaceutical regulation and innovation.

Walid Gellad
(M.D. University of Maryland, M.P.H Harvard)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System;  pharmaceutical cost and spending; Medicare; primary care medicine

Sandy Geschwind
(Dr.P.H., Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University)

Environmental epidemiology; international environmental health.

Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar
(Ph.D., Statistics, Pennsylvania State University)

Statistical: analysis, sampling, non-response, multiple imputation, multi-level modeling. Substantive: drug prevention, mental health, public health.

Mary Lou Gilbert
(J.D., UCLA School of Law; M.A., UCLA, Latin American Studies and Public Health)

Health law; maternal and child health in developing countries; domestic violence and child abuse and neglect; general Latino health issues.

Emily Gillen
(M.A., Economics, Johns Hopkins University)

Public health preparedness; health policy reform; international health issues; access to care; quality assessment and improvement.

Federico Girosi
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University; Ph.D., Physics, University of Genova, Italy)

Microsimulation modeling of health care reform; health insurance expansions; health information technology; aging; international health.

Peter Glassman
(Medical degree [MBBS], University of London; M.Sc. in Economics, University of London)

Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA; Staff Physician, VA Greater Los Angeles. Pharmacy benefits management; medication safety; electronic prescribing and quality of pharmaceutical-related care.

Peter Glick
(Ph.D., Economics, American University; B.A., Anthropology, Binghamton University)

HIV/AIDS knowledge, behaviors and prevention; health care quality and the demand for care; determinants of child nutrition and growth.

Dana Goldman
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)

Health economics, labor market effects of health reform; managed care; technology assessment; pharmaceutical regulation and innovation.

Daniela Golinelli
(Ph.D., Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle)

Bayesian statistics; MCMC methods; inference in stochastic population processes; hierarchical models; Bayes networks; mental health policy.

Jonathan Grant
(Ph.D., Population Studies, London School of Economics, King's College, London)

Health and research policy, with a focus on research translation and research evaluation methodologies.

Harold (Hank) Green
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida)

Health promotion and disease prevention; mental health; subtance abuse; gender and minorities; social network analysis; qualitative and quantitative methods of social research.

Michael Greenberg
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Duke University; J.D., Harvard Law School)

Healthcare law and regulation; mental health; managed care; privacy and bioinformatics; public health and health security.

Carole Roan Gresenz
(Ph.D., Economics, Brown University)

Vulnerable populations, the uninsured, access to health care, mental health, managed care, health care law and regulation, community partnerships.

Beth Ann Griffin
(Ph.D., Biostatistics, Harvard University)

Survival analysis; design of clinical and non-clinical studies; sampling; biostatistics; public health interventions; HIV/AIDS.

Marla Haims
(Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deputy Director Global Health; international health policy and systems design; organizational design and management; quality improvement; quality of care; patient safety.

Bing Han
(Ph.D., Penn State University)

Statistical modeling and data analysis; statistical application in health studies.

Katherine M. Harris
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)

Mental health care; substance abuse treatment; utilization and access; consumer satisfaction and demand for care.

Evi Hatziandreou
(Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health)

Director of RAND Health Europe

Amelia M. Haviland
(Ph.D., Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University)

Research design; analyzing complex sample data; causality; inequality.

Jennifer Hawes-Dawson
(B.A., Sociology, Goucher College)

Survey research design and management; community-based participatory research; qualitative and quantitative research methods; adolescent health care and promotion; school-based interventions; church-based health promotion and educational programs; and health care for the elderly, military families, and low-income/underserved populations.

Ron D. Hays
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Riverside)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; health-related quality of life; patient evaluations of care; health-related behaviors.

Lauren Hedinger
(B.S.E., Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University)

Quality of care; women's health; health promotion and disease prevention; healthcare access and satisfaction.

Kimberly A. Hepner
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology,
University of Arizona)

Mental health; dissemination of effective treatments for anxiety and depression; quality of care measurement; patient satisfaction.

Liisa Hiatt
(M.S., Public Policy, University of Rochester)

Project Director, Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE); quality of health care; health care reform issues.

Lee H. Hilborne
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Appropriateness; guidelines; pathology; patient safety, quality of care.

Laural Hill
(B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Survey Analyst; computerized data collection.

Richard Hillestad
(Ph.D., Operations Research, UCLA)

Health Information Technology; health system reform.

Lara Jungvig Hilton
(B.A., Sociology, UC Berkeley)

Research Programmer Analyst; data cleaning, management, analysis and documentation; surveys and data collection instruments; qualitative text analysis; training and implementation of qualitative analysis tools.

Susan Hosek
(M.A., Economics, Northwestern University)

Co-Director, Center for Research on Military Health, military health care; preferred provider organizations.

Peter Huckfeldt
(Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Davis)

Health economics; public economics; pharmaceutical policy and innovation; access to care.

Angela Hung
(Ph.D., Social Science, California Institute of Technology)

Economic models of addictive substance use; experimental studies of decision-making.

Sarah Hunter
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Substance abuse prevention and treatment; mental health; community participatory research; program evaluation.

Peter Hussey
(Ph.D., Health Services Research, Johns Hopkins University)

Health care financing; health care costs; quality of care; international health.

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Martin Y. Iguchi
(Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Boston University)

Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; substance abuse; substance abuse treatment; HIV risk behaviors; sexual transmission of HIV; street outreach; behavioral medicine; contingency management; health disparities; drug courts; California's Proposition 36; drug using social networks; drug policy; impact of drug policies on minority communities.

Mireille Jacobson
(Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University)

Access to care; reimbursement policies; health care markets; criminal justice.

Lisa Jaycox
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

Mental health with a focus on children and adolescents; traumatic experiences; dissemination of effective psychotherapy into community settings; school mental health programs.

Breanne Johnsen
(B.S., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Washington)

Quality of life; quality of care; aural rehabilitation; quality assessment and improvement.

Spencer Jones
(Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah)

Health information technology; modeling and simulation; forecasting; quality assessment and improvement.

Geoffrey Joyce
(Ph.D., Economics, City University of New York; M.P.P., University of Michigan)

Medical care utilization and costs; pharmaceuticals; Medicare; HIV; Managed care.

James P. Kahan
(Ph.D., Mathematical Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Individual and small group decisionmaking processes, especially with respect to guidelines for care; appropriateness of care; detection of consensus in health care policy debates.

Katherine Kahn
(M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine)

Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine; quality of care measurement; quality improvement; clinical epidemiology; clinical research design; influence of health policy on quality of care; structure and quality of medical organizations.

Caren Kamberg
(M.S., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Research Administrator.

David Kanouse
(Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University)

Co-Director, Center for Research on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Sexual Behavior; health decisionmaking; sexual risk behavior; HIV-related services research; quality of care; guidelines.

Kanika Kapur
(Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University)

Health insurance and labor outcomes; managed care; health care utilization and expenditures; health care reform.

Pinar Karaca-Mandic
(Ph.D., Economics, U.C. Berkeley)

Health care reform; pharmacy benefit design; pharmaceutical innovation; health plan choice models.

Benjamin Karney
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Interpersonal relationships, interpersonal communication, marriage, families, longitudinal methods.

Lynn Karoly
(Ph.D., Economics, Yale University)

Retiree health care benefits; health insurance and labor markets; economics of early intervention programs.

Emmett Keeler
(Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University)

Evaluating quality improvement interventions; insurance design; cost-effectiveness; effects of market structure on hospital prices.

Joan Keesey
(B.A., Mathematics, Pomona College)

Senior Programmer Analyst; data management.

David Kennedy
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida)

Health promotion and disease prevention; mental health; health care access and satisfaction; HIV; gender; quality of care; families and children; mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology; romantic relationships; depression; fertility; culture change; adherence to antiretroviral therapy.

Donna Keyser
(Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University; M.B.A., Columbia Business School)

Associate Director, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute; community-based quality improvement initiatives; development and qualitative assessment of interdisciplinary research initiatives; maternal and child health care; mental health care; institutional roles in supporting research mentoring.

Dmitry Khodyakov
(Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University)

End-of-life health care planning; quality of care; decision-making; collaboration, cooperation, and trust; doctor-patient relationships; interdisciplinary teams.

Beau Kilmer
(Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University)

Substance use; crime control; illicit markets; mental health.

David J. Klein
(M.S., Biometry, University of Southern California)

Health statistics.

Paul Koegel
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Associate Director, RAND Health; homelessness; poverty; mental health; community-based participatory research approaches.

Darius Lakdawalla
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)

Health economics; labor economics; economics of education.

Marielena Lara
(M.D., Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine; Director of UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma, RAND Health; asthma; access and quality of care for underserved populations; Latino health; pediatrics; disparities research; health care policy.

Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
(Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Columbia University)

Child and adolescent well-being; parent mental health; effects of context on intellectual and emotional development; parenting; qualitative and quantitative research.

Kristin Leuschner
(PhD, English, UCLA)

Communications Coordinator for Domestic and Global Health Security, RAND Health. Health Care Access and Satisfaction, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Janet Lever
(Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University)

AIDS.

Tom Ling
(Ph.D., Government, University of Essex, UK)

Evaluation of complex health interventions and health quality assessment.

Yee-Wei Lim
(Ph.D., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, M.D., National University of Singapore)

Access to care for vulnerable populations; quality of care assessment; international health.

Mark S. Litwin
(M.D., Emory University; M.P.H., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Professor of Urology and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles; prostate cancer; quality of life; quality of health care; urological outcomes; burden of illness and practice patterns.

Hangsheng Liu
(Ph.D., Health Services Research and Policy, University of Rochester)

Quality of care; risk adjustment for managed care payment; evaluation of policy impacts; insurance/provider competition; pharmaceutical economics; consumer choice of providers/health plans; global health.

J.R. Lockwood
(Ph.D., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Bayesian hierarchical and spatial modeling, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, environmental statistics.

Karl Lorenz
(M.D.,Medical College of Georgia; MSHS, UCLA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine UCLA; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; chronic illness and palliative care; veterans care; organization and financing of hospice and palliative services; symptom care; quality of care.

(MD, Stanford University), Medicine. Areas of interest: Quality Improvement in Public Health.

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John M. MacDonald
(Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland)

Violence prevention; substance abuse; prevention of risk taking behavior.

Katie Mack
(M.P.P., University of Southern California; B.A., Economics, Union College)

Healthcare financing and economics; long-term care; access to and quality of health care; disease prevention.

Catherine H. MacLean
(M.D., Washington University, St. Louis; Ph.D., Health Services, UCLA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; quality of health care; administrative data; rheumatic diseases.

Rodger Madison
(M.A., Sociology/Demography, University of Southern California)

Senior Programmer; health data management; data security and privacy.

Nicole Maestas
(Ph.D. Economics, UC Berkeley)

Health and retirement; effects of health insurance on health outcomes; medical expenditure risk.

Elizabeth J. Maggio
(B.A., Geology, New York University; B.A., Italian, University of Arizona)

Editorial services: editing/writing evidence-based reports, grant proposals, technical documents, general health publications.

Margaret Maglione
(M.PP., University of Southern California; B.A., Economics, Columbia University)

Policy analysis; health promotion /disease prevention; drug policy; HIV.

Carol Mangione
(M.D., University of California, San Francisco; M.S.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health)

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; measurement of health-related quality of life; quality of care; eye care; community-based interventions in diabetes.

Joyce Mann
(Ph.D., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Health system reform; financing of health care; access for the poor; Medicaid; health systems in developing countries.

Susan Marquis
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan)

Physician payment; health care reform; health plan choice.

Grant Marshall
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Mental health; affects of trauma exposure; refugee and minority health; and quality of life.

Laurie Martin
Sc.D., Havard School of Public Health; M.P.H., Boston University)

Trajectories of physical and mental health over the lifecourse; health disparities; maternal and child health; education and health; cognitive and literacy skills.

Linda Martin
(Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University)

Health trends; health disparities; aging; international health.

Homero Martinez
(M.D. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; PhD, International Nutrition, Cornell University)

Micronutrient deficiencies; childhood obesity, health services research; public nutrition; international health.

Steven Martino
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota)

Health decision making; psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use; physician-patient interaction; media effects on health risk behavior.

Francisco Martorell
(Ph.D., Economics, UC Berkeley)

Labor economics; public economics; health economics.

Jürgen Maurer
(Ph.D. Economics, European University Institute)

Applied microeconomics; health economics; health services research; human development in later life.

Dan McCaffrey
(Ph.D., Statistics, North Carolina State)

Analysis of clustered data; hierarchical models; drug prevention.

Elizabeth McGlynn
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Associate Director, RAND Health; RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Care Quality; quality and appropriateness of medical care; measurement of efficiency; analysis of health reform options.

Sarah Meadows
(Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University)

Mental health; child and adolescent well-being; family structure; social indicators.

Ateev Mehrotra
(M.D., University of California, San Francisco)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Quality assessment and improvement; measuring cost-efficiency; pay-for-performance incentives.

Robin Meili
(M.B.A., Finance, New York University)

Impact of health information technology in health care delivery and decision support; the roles of information and incentives in motivating and modifying behavior; the organization and financing of health and behavioral health systems; organ transplantation.

Glenn Melnick
(Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan)

Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Hospital competition.

Peter Mendel
(Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University)

Organization of health services; dynamics of health care systems; diffusion of health interventions and organizational innovations; health care reform and quality improvement.

John Mendeloff
(Ph.D., Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley)

Director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. Occupational health and safety policy. Government regulation of risks to health, safety and the environment. Pharmaceutical policy. Worthwhile investments to promote public health.

Lisa Meredith
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University)

Measurement and assessment of health care provider behavior; quality improvement for depression; primary care for mental health problems; quality of patient-provider relationships; social and psychological aspects of decision making; mental health needs associated with terrorism.

Jeremy Miles
(Ph.D., Quant Psychology, University of Derby, UK)

Structural equation modeling; multilevel modelling; psychometrics; RCT design and analysis.

Melinda Moore
(M.D., Harvard; M.P.H., Harvard)

Global health; public health; health and foreign policy; pandemic influenza preparedness; public health surveillance; public health emergency preparedness; military health; health security; public health systems; infectious diseases.

Leo Morales
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.D., University of Washington; M.P.H., University of Washington)

Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Health policy for low-income, minority, and immigrant populations; cross-cultrual health outcomes measurement.

Kristy Gonzalez Morganti
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Global health, program evaluation, health economics, access to care, quality of care and health disparities.

Andrew Morral
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York)

Emergency preparedness, Substance abuse; violence; risk management.

Kathleen Mullen
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)

Organization of healthcare markets; quality assessment and improvement.

Brett Munjas
(M.S., Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles)

Biostatistics; sampling; longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis; survey data; statistical programming.

Erin K. Murphy
(M.P.P., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. Sociology/Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)

Health and Aging policy; chronic disease prevention; health disparities; Medicare reform; public health preparedness.

Christopher Nelson
(Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Public health preparedness; performance measurement; program evaluation; occupational safety and health; public management

Sydne Newberry
(Ph.D., Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism, MIT)

Communications Analyst. Health communication, nutrition, military health and manpower readiness.

Nancy Nicosia
(Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley)

Health; substance abuse; crime.

Victoria K. Ngo
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University)

Evidence based treatments for anxiety and depression, collaborative care, global mental health, minority mental health.

Sarah Nowak
(PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Forecasting effects of health care reform; HIV; disease dynamics.

Teryl Nuckols
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.S., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Quality of care and patient safety, particularly the cost implications of improving quality.

Allison Ober
(M.S.W., Catholic University of America; B.A., Psychology, University of Vermont)

Project management, coordination, and implementation; substance abuse; HIV; child welfare.

Stuart Olmsted
(Ph.D., Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University)

Military health; sexually transmitted diseases and HIV; microbiology; bioterrorism; public health preparedness; public health laboratories; genetics.

Karen Chan Osilla
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Washington)

Substance abuse, health promotion, and dual disorders in workforce, minority, and military populations; prevention; intervention; motivational interviewing.

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
(Ph.D., Economics, Duke University)

Acting Director, RAND Health Economics, Financing, and Organization; Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center; economics of substance use and abuse; drug policy and drug markets; social cost of substance abuse; impact of legislation on funding for mental health/substance abuse treatment and outcomes; economics consequences of mental health problems

Susan Paddock
(Ph.D., Statistics, Duke University)

Substantive: substance abuse treatment, drug policy, mental health, Medicare, patient safety, performance evaluation. Methodological: Bayesian statistics, multilevel (hierarchical) modeling, longitudinal data analysis, missing data methods

John Pane
(Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)

Education technology; data driven decision-making in education; math and science education; human-computer interaction; computer interface design; impact of technology on individuals and organizations; randomized controlled experiments on the effectiveness of educational interventions.

Philip Pantoja
(M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago)

Programmer/Analyst: Data management and analysis.

Andrew Parker
(Ph.D., Behavioral Decision Theory, M.S., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Decision–making competencies; risk perception and subjective expectations; risk–taking behavior; public health preparedness; group decision making; adolescence.

Marjorie Pearson
(M.S., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles)

Quality improvement evaluation; implementation analysis; quality of care (focus on nursing and care manager quality); chronic care management; self-management support.

Judith Perlman
(M.A., Educational Psychology, California State University, Northridge)

Survey Director, RAND Survey Research Group; survey research budgeting, design, management and operations for data collection including surveys of difficult and hard to reach populations.

Harold Alan Pincus
(M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine )

Vice Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Director of Quality and Outcomes Research, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; RAND-Pittsburgh Health Program; mental health; primary care; substance use disorders; quality and appropriateness of care; practice-based research.

Ellen Pint
(Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

Military health care.

David Powell
(Ph.D., Economics, MIT)

Determinants of medical care consumption; health insurance tax subsidy.

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Denise Quigley
(Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.A., International Policy, M.A., German Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies)

Health care markets; mental health; delivery of care; evaluation of program and quality improvement initiatives.

Rajeev Ramchand
(Ph.D., Public Health, Johns Hopkins University)

Substance use and abuse; mental health; access to health care for vulnerable populations; youth labor.

Nadine R. Rayburn
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California)

Trauma; hate crimes; mental health; cognitive behavioral mental health interventions.

Daniel Relles
(Ph.D., Statistics, Yale University)

Medicare payment status; effects of insurance status on health expenditures.

Richard Rettig
(Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

End-stage renal disease; technology assessment, clinical research and clinical trials; high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplant for breast cancer; Food and Drug Administration-related issues.

Peter Reuter
(Ph.D., Economics, Yale University)

Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center; organization of illegal markets; alternative approaches to controlling drug problems in the United States and Western Europe; the global heroin industry; money-laundering policy.

Kerry A. Reynolds
(Ph.D., Health/Social Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University)

Adolescent health; diabetes; adjustment to chronic illness; health decision making; peer and family relationships and health

Karen A. Ricci
(R.N., M.P.H, Health Policy and Management, University of Massachusetts)

Quality of care; public health preparedness; women's health; pediatric/child development; global health.

Amy Richardson
(Ph.D., Public and International Relations, Princeton University)

Qualitative and survey design and analysis among all populations on health conditions, health behaviors, and health outcomes; market research in healthcare; health policy; environmental health; lead poisoning.

M. Susan Ridgely
(J.D., University of Maryland School of Law)

Health law; health information technology; patient safety; health care reform; managed care; health services research; qualitative methods.

Greg Ridgeway
(Ph.D., Statistics, University of Washington)

Computational statistics; massive datasets; Bayesian inference.

Jeanne Ringel
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland)

Substance abuse policy; maternal and child health; tobacco control.

Jeannette Rogowski
(Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Director, RAND Center for Employer-Sponsored Health and Pension Benefits; retiree health benefits; neonatal intensive care; cost, quality and access to care; population health and health disparities.

John Romley
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 2004)

Industrial organization of health-care markets, particularly regarding alcohol retailing; pharmacy-benefit design; payer-provider competition; physician labor supply.

Mayde Rosen
(B.S.N., Boston University; R.N., Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Project administration; health care cost reduction; quality of care; medicine; nursing.

Carol Roth
(R.N., M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Appropriateness and quality of care, clinical algorithm design, medical record data collection, training, clinical project management.

Melissa Rowe
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Quality of life; quality of care; mental health care services; women's health; behavioral health services.

Lisa Rubenstein
(M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; M.S.P.H., UCLA School of Public Health)

Director, VA/UCLA/RAND Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, VA Greater Los Angeles Medical Center; quality improvement; methods for changing healthcare provider behavior; improving care for depression in primary care; quality of nursing care.

Gery Ryan
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida)

Medical decision making; international health; maternal and child health; qualitative and quantitative methods.

Christopher Saigal
(M.P.H., M.D., University of California, Los Angeles)

Assistant Professor of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; quality of care, health economics, decision analysis, patient preference assessment, quality of life assessment, urologic health services research.

Debra Saliba
(M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine; M..P.H., Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health)

Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation; Anna and Harry Borun Chair in Geriatrics, UCLA; Research Physician, VA GRECC and HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior; Director UCLA/JH Borun Center for Gerontological Research; quality of long-term care services; care for geriatric populations; identification of vulnerable elders; functional status.

Narayan Sastry
(Ph.D., Demography and Public Affairs, Princeton University)

Child health and mortality; population and development; aging.

Jessica Saunders
(Ph.D. Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

Developmental criminology; immigration; intervention evaluation; quantitative methods.

Agnes Gereben Schaefer
(Ph.D., Political Science, Syracuse University)

Public health emergency preparedness; pandemic influenza preparedness; transnational health issues; national security; terrorism; weapons of mass destruction; environmental health; non-governmental organizations.

Deborah Scharf
(Ph.D., Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Pittsburgh)

Smoking and eating behaviors; relapse proces; Ecological Momentary Assessment; behavioral strategies to improve pharmacological interventions.

Terry Schell
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Health behavior and attitudes; substance abuse; consumer and medical decision making; race, ethnicity and gender.

Maren T. Scheuner
(M.D., M.P.H., UCLA)

Health policy in genomic medicine, assessment of genomic technologies, public health genetics, population-based genomics research, development and evaluation of family history tools for public health and preventive medicine practice, genetic epidemiology of chronic diseases of adulthood, surveillance and outcomes research in medical genetics/genomics, professional education in genetics, genetic testing for adult-onset disorders.

Christopher Schnyer
(MPP, UC Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy; SB Linguistics & Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Health care financing policy; clinical guidelines and performance measurement; child health policy.

Diane Schoeff
(B.A., English, Indiana University)

Project management; substance use and abuse; mental health; health care for low income and minority populations.

Michael Schoenbaum
(Ph.D., Economics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Health care quality improvement; mental health; international health care and economic development; disability; health insurance choice.

Matthias Schonlau
(Ph.D., Statistics, University of Waterloo)

Substantive: Statistical applications in health services research; alternative medicine; asthma. Methodological: propensity scoring; web surveys; survey research; large data sets and text data.

Dana Schultz
(M.P.P., Harvard University)

Child and adolescent well-being; child maltreatment; child welfare services; violence prevention; program evaluation; qualitative and quantitative research.

Mark Schuster
(M.D., M.P.P., Harvard University; Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Senior Natural Scientist, RAND; Chief of General Pediatrics & Vice Chair for Health Policy Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. Child and adolescent health promotion and risk prevention; worksite health promotion; obesity prevention; sexual health; parent-child communication; quality of health care.

Claude Setodji
(Ph.D., Statistics, University of Minnesota)

Health care policy; minority health care; use of statistics in health policy; HIV/AIDS; data reduction and visualization; large data sets; drug policy.

William G. Shadel
(Ph.D., Clinical Health Psychology and Social/Personality Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Substance use and abuse; tobacco use and smoking among adolescents and adults; tobacco control; advertising and media; assessment and intervention in clinical and public health settings.

Martin Shapiro
(M.D.;C.M, McGill University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles )

Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; access; quality; HIV/AIDS; health disparities; research ethics.

Rebecca Nolind Shaw
(M.A., Social Work, Health Administration and Policy, University of Chicago)

Health information technology; decision support tools; healthcare quality; access to healthcare; patient safety; child and adolescent health.

Paul Shekelle
(M.D., Duke University; Ph.D., Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Director, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; chiropractic care; guidelines; appropriateness.

Shoshana Shelton
(M.P.H., The Ohio State University)

Public health preparedness; performance measurement; program evaluation; health promotion / disease prevention; public health systems.

Kanaka Shetty
(M.D., New York University)

Regulation of graduate medical education and patient safety; pharmaceutical regulations; public health impact of trade.

Cathy Sherbourne
(Ph.D., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Health status; assessment; social support; patient adherence; coping styles; child health; mental health; anxiety disorder.

Margaret Shih
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, Harvard University)

Organizational psychology; culture, race and ethnicity; adolescence; mental health; identity; discrimination; education and test performance.

Regina Shih
(Ph.D., Psychiatric Epidemiology, John Hopkins School of Public Health)

Mental health; social determinants of health disparities; child neurodevelopment; neuropsychology; cognitive aging; environmental health; environmental justice.

Lisa Shugarman
(Ph.D., Health Services Organization and Policy, University of Michigan)

Organization and financing of nursing home and community-based long term care; end-of-life care; quality of care; outcomes of care; public health preparedness; program evaluation.

Elizabeth Sloss
(Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Quality measurement and improvement; occupational safety and health; environmental epidemiology

David Solomon
(M.D., Harvard Medical School)

Consultant, RAND Health; Professor Emeritus of Medicine/Geriatrics, UCLA; Director Emeritus, UCLA Center on Aging; Chair, Department of Medicine, 1971-81; pioneer in geriatrics education; researcher in quality of care in geriatrics.

Matt Solomon
(M.A., Sociology, Stanford University)

RAND Graduate School Fellow; UCLA Medical School student. Health economics, managed care; health care information technology; quality improvement.

Neeraj Sood
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Health economics; HIV/AIDS policy; consumer decisions in insurance markets; secondary life insurance markets; price regulation; pharmaceutical innovation.

Melony E. S. Sorbero
(Ph.D., Health Services Research and Health Policy, University of Rochester; M.S., Public Policy Analysis, University of Rochester)

Quality of care; patient safety; racial disparities; breast cancer; evaluation of programs; cost-effectiveness; quality of life measurement; medical decisionmaking.

Bradley Stein
(M.D., M.P.H. University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. RAND Graduate School)

Senior Director of Research, Evaluation, and Outcomes, Community Care Behavioral Health; Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; mental health and substance abuse; traumatization; managed care; quality of care; school mental health.

Stefanie Stern
(M.A. Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA; B.A. Economics and Sociology - Organizational Studies, UC Davis)

Mental and behavioral health; youth alcohol/drug intervention; adolescent obesity; public health emergency preparedness; education (K-12 and postsecondary); quality improvement; and organizational behavior.

Michael Stoto
(Ph.D., Statistics, Harvard)

Associate Director, Public Health, Center for Domestic and International Health Security; research synthesis; epidemiology; surveillance; performance measurement; regional health data; public health and health policy.

Susan Straus
(Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois)

Social impacts of information and communication technology; health information technology; doctor-patient communication; distance learning; team dynamics and performance.

Roland Sturm
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)

Economics of healthy living; behavioral health; health care policy.

J. Greer Sullivan
(M.D., University of Mississippi; M.S., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas; mental health services; public mental health care; persons with serious and persistent mental illness.

Marika Suttorp
(M.S., Biostatistics, University of California at Los Angeles)

Biostatisics, meta-analysis, survey data, statistical programming.

Terri Tanielian
(M.A., Psychology, American University)

Co-Director, Center for Military Health Policy Research; Research interests include: public health preparedness; mental health services research and policy analysis; psychological consequences of terrorism, disasters, and public health emergencies; risk communication; military health research.

Stephanie Taylor
(Ph.D., Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University)

Public health; contextual influences (neighborhood, hospital, policy) on health/health care; racial/ethnic disparities in health/care; HIV; homeless; physical activity; multi-level analysis.

Stephanie Teleki
(Ph.D., Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health)

Consumer and physician information/behavior; quality/appropriateness of medical care; patient safety; pay-for-performance; health insurance/access to care.

Shannah Tharp-Taylor
(Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh)

Children's social and emotional development; quality of public child care systems; crafting age-appropriate messages to children about current issues (e.g., HIV, terrorism, war, etc.); disparities in health care and outcomes; risk behaviors and social ramifications of HIV infection in vulnerable populations (i.e., women and children); international HIV, health, education policy and practice.

Justin Timbie
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University)

Quality of care; pay-for-performance; cost-effectiveness analysis; evidence-based medicine.

Martha Timmer
(M.S., Biostatistics, University of North Carolina)

Programmer/Analyst; data management & analysis (questionnaire data, Medicare data, claims data, lab data).

Mark Totten
(M.S., Biostatistics, University of Michigan)

Senior Programmer, health data management & analysis.

Joan Tucker
(Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of California, Riverside)

Psychosocial influences on health and health behaviors; substance use and abuse; HIV risk and prevention.

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Lori Uscher-Pines
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University)

Emergency preparedness; vaccine policy; maternal and child health; vulnerable populations.

Mary Vaiana
(Ph.D., English Linguistics, Indiana University)

Communications Director, RAND Health; cognitive psychology; document design.

Raffaele Vardavas
(Ph.D. Imperial College)

Epidemic transmission dynamics, mathematical and computational models, population-dynamics, public-policy strategies.

Roberto Vargas
(M.D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; M.P.H., Harvard University, Boston)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA Access to Care, Chronic Disease Management and Care Coordination, Community-Partnered Participatory Research, Health Disparities, Health Policy.

Christine Vaughan
(Ph.D., University of South Florida)

Mental health; weight-related issues; gender and racial disparities.

Barbara Vickrey
(M.D., Duke University; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Professor of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles; quality-of-life outcomes; health status assessment and quality of care for neurologic diseases; neurologists' clinical decisionmaking.

Danielle Vogenbeck Varda
(Ph.D., Public Affairs, University of Colorado - Denver)

Public Health Infrastructure; Public Health Preparedness; Evolution of Interorganizational Networks; Public-Private Partnerships; Network Governance; Public Safety; Social Network Analysis, and Qualitative Methods.

William B Vogt
(PhD, Economics, Stanford University)

Industrial organization of healthcare, health insurance & labor market, pharmaceutical demand.

Glenn Wagner
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, St. John's University)

Mental health and quality-of-life interventions for those with serious medical illness, with particular emphasis on people living with HIV/AIDS; international health services research related to HIV care in developing countries.

Jeffrey Wasserman
(Ph.D., RAND Graduate School for Policy Studies)

Tobacco control policy; health promotion and disease prevention; health care financing; public health; quality of care.

Katherine Watkins
(M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.S.H.S., University of California, Los Angeles)

Substance use and mental health treatment services; co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders; quality of care; community participatory research.

Margaret Weden
(Ph.D. Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University; M.H.S. Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health)

Population health; social inequalities in health; aging; health behaviors; adolescent risk behavior.

Robin Weinick
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Access to and quality of care; racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities; safety net institutions; program evaluation; measurement.

Neil Wenger
(M.D., M.P.H., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Co-Director, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center; clinical ethics; end-of-life medical care; quality of care.

Suzanne Wenzel
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of Texas at Austin)

Substance abuse; violence; mental health; needs and service use among homeless and other impoverished groups and women.

Malcolm Williams
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University, M.P.P., Georgetown University)

Social determinants of health and health care including neighborhood effects; race and socioeconomic disparities in care; HIV; public health preparedness.

Valerie Williams
(Ph.D., Chemistry, New York University)

Biomedical research and therapeutic innovation; community-based partnerships; race and pharmacogenetics.

Henry H. Willis
(Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University)

Risk communication and analysis; cost-benefit; systems analysis; technology assessment.

Jeremy Wilson
(Ph.D, Public Administration, Ohio State University; M.A., Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington)

Police organizations; crime control and prevention; gun violence; substance use.

Eunice C. Wong
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Mental health and substance abuse; trauma; culturally diverse populations.

Shinyi Wu
(Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, specializing in Health Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Economic evaluation and decision analysis; simulation and modeling; quality of care assessment and improvement; health information technology; chronic illness and aging; physician-patient relationships.

Barbara Wynn
(M.A., U.S. History, American University)

Health care financing and delivery systems; government health insurance programs; safety net providers; graduate medical education.

Alexander S. Young
(M.D., Harvard)

Professor, University of California Los Angeles; health services research; quality of care; mental health; public sector.

Hao Yu
(Ph.D., Health Services Research and Policy, University of Rochester, U.S.; M.S., Health Economics, Shanghai Medical University, China)

Health insurance market; cost-effectiveness analysis; pharmaceutical economics; access to and quality of care for children and other vulnerable populations; international health.

Karen Yuhas
(R.N., N.P., M.S., M.P.H., Syracuse University, University of California, Los Angeles)

Public health and prevention; quality of care; aging; data collection and field work preparation (field interviewer training, anthropometry, physical assessment).

Gail Zellman
(Ph.D., Social and Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Child abuse; prenatal substance exposure; nursing home care; assisted reproductive technologies.

Jie (Annie) Zhou
(M.S., University of California, Los Angeles)

Item response theory, meta-analysis, survey data, AIDs applications, pediatrics, statistical analysis/programming.

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