Center for Military Health Policy Researchers
Center Leadership
Terri Tanielian 
Terri Tanielian is a senior social research analyst and serves as the co-director of RAND's Center for Military Health Policy Research. In this capacity, she oversees RAND's diverse military health research portfolio and maintains relationships with senior military health leaders. She has working knowledge of the military health system data systems, force health protection, and TRICARE. Skilled in using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, she is currently leading an assessment of the Department of Defense's medical management of the war-wounded population. She also recently completed a congressionally mandated evaluation of a TRICARE demonstration to expand access to mental health counselors.
Sue Hosek
Susan Hosek is a senior economist at RAND and co-director of RAND's Center for Military Health Policy Research. She is a professor in the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School and a member of the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans. She has more than 25 years experience conducting and managing research in a number of areas, including health care systems. She directed two large evaluations of managed-care programs and subsequently studied the management structure of those programs.
Center Researchers
Marygail Brauner
Marygail Brauner is a senior operations research analyst at RAND. Her research has focused on military medical readiness with particular emphasis on developing quantifiable requirements, standards, and metrics, and costing alternative approaches to achieving medical readiness.
Gary Cecchine
Gary Cecchine is a natural scientist at RAND with a background in biology and public policy. His research includes operational military medicine and environment, safety and occupational health issues.
Robert Cox
Robert Cox is a project associate at RAND. His interests include military health, health services management, clinical quality, patient outcomes, and public health preparedness.
Christine Eibner
Christine Eibner is an associate economist at RAND, specializing in applied econometrics and cost analyses. Her work in the Military Health Policy Center has focused on demand for TRICARE, maintaining the operational readiness of DoD medical providers, and the economic costs of mental illness resulting from exposure to combat.
Katherine Harris
Katherine Harris is an economist at RAND. Her interests include access and utilization of medical and mental health care and the economics of consumer demand for health care. Recent studies of military health issues include analysis of the effects of changes in pharmacy benefits, an evaluation of the VA's Enrollee Health Care Projection Model, and assessment of the performance of the military health system's electronic medical record system.
Peter Hussey
Peter Hussey is a health policy research associate at RAND. His research interests include health care quality measurement, financing and payment systems for health services, and international comparisons of health system organization and financing. His work in the Military Health Policy Center has focused on the financing of care for TRICARE for Life beneficiaries.
Lisa Jaycox
Lisa Jaycox is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. She is a clinical psychologist and expert in PTSD, depression and their treatment.
Sheila Nataraj Kirby
Sheila Nataraj Kirby is a senior economist at RAND. Her current research focuses on military health policy, including insurance options for military retirees, medical enlisted education and training, and military medical leader development. She has also published extensively on military personnel and education policy issues.
Melinda Moore
Melinda Moore is a senior health researcher at RAND and a retired Commissioned Officer (CAPT, O6) of the U.S. Public Health Service. Her research focus on different aspects of the military health system, e.g., individual medical readiness, community mass casualty preparedness, military health surveillance; and global health, e.g., public health surveillance, emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness.
John Romley
John Romley is an associate economist at RAND. His research interests include performance assessment for military treatment facilities, pharmacy costs in the military health system, efficiency in health care, hospital quality and costs, and disparities in alcohol retailing.
Elizabeth Sloss
Elizabeth Sloss is an epidemiologist/health services researcher at RAND. Her current research focuses on the organization of occupational health and safety within DoD, Medicare payment differentials between ambulatory settings, and quality measures for monitoring medication management under Medicare's Part D prescription drug benefit.
Harry Thie
Harry Thie is a senior management scientist at RAND. His current research interests include medical education and training, career development, and use of simulation in training. He has published extensively on defense manpower, personnel, and training policy issue.
Barbara Wynn
Barbara Wynn is a senior health policy analyst at RAND. Her research focuses on financing issues related to federal health programs and workers' compensation programs.
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