Center Staff
Staff of the Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace are based out of each of RAND's U.S. offices and conduct research on such topics as workers' compensation, workers' health care, dispute resolution, and first responder issues.
Steven M. Asch (M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., UCLA): Associate Professor of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and UCLA. Quality and access measurement and improvement, HIV care.
Scott Ashwood (M.A., Political Science, University of Rochester): Senior Programmer; GIS, database, and statistical programming; claims data management and analysis.
James T. Bartis (Ph.D., Chemical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Emergency responder safety; energy; environment
Nicholas Castle (Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Penn State) Long-term care; nursing home quality; innovation; top management teams.
Karen Chan (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Washington) Problem drinking; substance abuse prevention and intervention; occupational safety and health; co-occurring disorders; gender and ethnic issues; employee assistance programs.
Gary Cecchine (Ph.D., Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology) Toxicology; military medicine; environmental health; risk assessment and communication; biotechnology; medical consequences of terrorism.
David Dausey (Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Yale University) Mental health services; mental health policymaking; maternal and child health; military health; bioterrorism.
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.
John Engberg (Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Non-experimental causal inference; health information systems; behavioral health services.
Donna Farley (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.P.H., Environmental Health Management, University of Illinois) Associate Director of Research, RAND/University of Pittsburgh Health Institute (RUPHI). Research interests in health care markets; financing policy and payment design, Medicare policy, evaluation of program and quality improvement initiatives, military health.
Rena Hasenfeld Garland (B.A., English Literature, UCLA) Quality and safety in health care; quality of care; clinical practice guidelines; health indicators for the elderly; guideline appraisal instruments; future advancements in medicine.
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.
Marla Haims (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Human factors and sociotechnical systems engineering; organizational design and management; quality of working life; health care quality; global health; occupational safety and health.
Amelia Haviland (Ph.D., Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University) Research design; analyzing complex sample data; causality; inequality.
Brian A. Jackson (M.S., Science, Technology, and Public Policy, George Washington University; Ph.D., Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology) Personal protective technology for emergency responders; R&D priorities for information infrastructure protection; biometric technologies; technology acquisition by law enforcement organizations.
Terrence K. Kelly (Ph.D., Mathematics, RPI). National and Homeland Security policy and programs.
Donna Keyser (Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University; M.B.A., Columbia Business School) Associate Director, Operations and Business Development, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute; strategic planning; communications strategy; community-based health services research; regional quality improvement initiatives.
Eric Landree (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University). Nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, national security, information assurance, and critical infrastructure protection.
Tom LaTourrette (Ph.D., Geology, California Institute of Technology) Emergency response; terrorism preparedness; energy resources; worker safety and health.
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.
David Loughran (Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland) Applied topics in labor economics and demography, including wage inequality, intrahousehold resource allocation, and family formation.
Louis Luangkesorn (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University). Supply chain and logistics; emergency and disaster response.
Catherine 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.
Steve 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.
Soeren Mattke (D.Sc. Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, M.D. University of Munich) Quality indicators; quality improvement; cardiac care; physician behavior.
John Mendeloff (Ph.D., Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley) Government regulation of risk; occupational health and safety policy; cost benefit analysis; evaluation.
Connie Moreno (MBA, International Business, Loyola Marymount University). Administration, management sciences, databases, Federal R&D.
Christopher Nelson (Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Public health preparedness; occupational safety and health; program evaluation; public management.
Teryl Nuckols Scott (M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.S., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles) Quality of care; medical errors and patient safety; cost-effectiveness; and the care of hospitalized patients.
Stuart Olmsted (Ph.D., Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University) Military health, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, microbiology, bioterrorism.
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.
Harold Pincus (M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, RAND-Pittsburgh Health Program; mental health; primary care; substance use disorders; quality and appropriateness of care.
Robert T. Reville (Ph.D., Economics, Brown University) Workers' compensation policy; the impact of disability on employment.
K. Jack Riley (Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School). Homeland security; counterterrorism; policing and drug sentencing; racial profiling; violence control and prevention.
Matt Schonlau (Ph.D., Statistics, University of Waterloo) Statistical applications in health services research; causal inference from observational studies; web surveys; large data sets and text data; asthma.
Dana Schultz (MPP, Harvard University) Child welfare; child health; child safety; violence prevention
Seth Seabury (Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University) Labor economics and industrial organization; workers' compensation; medical malpractice; civil litigation.
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.
Sally Sleeper (Ph.D., Organization Science and Economics, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Policy Analysis and Public Management, SUNY Stony Brook) Technology, information, and innovation; logistics; public and private organization management.
Elizabeth M. Sloss (Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles) Managed care; quality of care; public health preparedness; environmental epidemiology.
Melony 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.
Susan Straus (Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois) Social impacts of information and communication technology; telemedicine; doctor-patient communication; distance learning; team dynamics and performance.
Henry Willis (Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University). Terrorism risk assessment, infrastructure planning; disaster preparedness and response; resource management; risk analysis and management.
Barbara O. Wynn (M.A., U.S. History, American University) Health care financing and delivery systems; government health insurance programs; safety net providers; graduate medical education.
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