Child Policy Staff

Listed below are RAND staff and consultants who have experience in research related to children.

A-B-C-D | E-F-G-H | I-J-K-L | M-N-O-P | Q-R-S-T | U-V-W-X-Y-Z

A-B-C-D

Jeremy Arkes (Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin)
Class size reduction, vouchers, charter schools, student accountability, school accountability, and school finance reform. RAND Publications

Catherine Augustine (Ph.D., Education, University of Michigan)
Postsecondary education, K-12 education reform, student assessment, and the organizational behavior of educational institutions and systems. RAND Publications

Dionne Barnes (M.S.W., B.A., Psychology, Black Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont)
Welfare reform, social and racial inequalities, family structure, juvenile justice, child socialization, adoption and foster care. RAND Publications

Megan Beckett (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan; M.H.S.A., School of Public Health, University of Michigan)
Aging, social and racial inequalities in health, survey methodology, demography. RAND Publications

James Bigelow (Ph.D., Operations Research, Stanford University)
Cost-benefit, cost effectiveness, and system analysis, policy evaluation. RAND Publications

Tora Kay Bikson (Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Missouri)
Organizational psychology, implications of technology for organizations. RAND Publications

Marianne Bitler (Ph.D., Economics, MIT)
Economics of the family, family structure, welfare reform, child support, food assistance programs, maternal and child health, and fertility. RAND Publications

Ricky Bluthenthal (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Berkeley)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Drew University of Medicine and Science; race, poverty, and infectious disease spread; HIV prevention; illicit drug use; drug enforcement policy. RAND Publications

Susan Bodilly (Ph.D., Public Policy, George Mason University)
K-12 education reform, systemic reform, organizational development. RAND Publications

Audrey Burnam (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Texas)
Mental health, homelessness, substance abuse. RAND Publications

Stephen Carroll (Ph.D., Economics, Johns Hopkins University)
Higher education finance and governance, K-12 spending. RAND Publications

Anita Chandra (Dr.P.H., Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; M.P.H., Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health)
Adolescent health, specifically in the areas of youth development, mental health, and reproductive health.

James Chiesa (M.A., Zoology, Indiana University; M.S., Environmental Science, Indiana University)
Investments in children, diverting children from a life of crime, communication of research results to policy-oriented audiences. RAND Publications

Matthew Chinman (Ph.D., Clinical/community psychology, University of South Carolina)
Mental health prevention/intervention programs, substance abuse prevention. RAND Publications

Deborah Cohen (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; MPH, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles)
Preventive interventions and public health policy, child health policy, maternal, child and adolescent health, alcohol and drug use and HIV/AIDS and STD. RAND Publications

Rebecca Collins (Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)
HIV and substance-use prevention, psychological adjustment to illness, social behavior. RAND Publications

Louay Constant (Ph.D., Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky)
Education policy, education reform, human capital and skills formation. RAND Publications

Ian Coulter (Ph.D., Sociology, London School of Economics)
Professor, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, alternative health care, chiropractic, dental care, appropriateness, HIV. RAND Publications

Amy Cox (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland)
Social inequality by gender, race, and class; poverty and welfare; labor markets and employment; gender, work, and family; family sociology and demography. RAND Publications

Shelly Culbertson (M.P.A., Public Policy/Admin/Analysis, Princeton University)
NASA and the U.S. aeronautics community coordination with the European Union, supply chain issues for childhood vaccines in developing countries, trade and infrastructure reforms.

Elizabeth D'Amico (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Texas at Austin)
Mechanisms of adolescent and preadolescent risk taking behavior, peer behavior and peer relations; utilization and effectiveness of intervention services for youth. RAND Publications

Ashlesha Datar (Ph.D. Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies; M.A., Economics, Indiana University)
Child care, early childhood education, child health. RAND Publications

David Dausey (Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Yale University)
Mental health services, mental health policymaking, maternal and child health, military health. RAND Publications

Julie DaVanzo (Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles)
Labor and population, health, education. RAND Publications

James Dertouzos (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford)
Economics of mass media regulation, labor economics, manpower, welfare reform. RAND Publications

Phil Devin (Ph.D., Information Science, New York University)
Integration of information technology into teaching and learning. RAND Publications

Tamara Dubowitz (Sc.D., Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health)
Health promotion and disease prevention, families and children, energy and environment, social epidemiology; neighborhood effects on health and nutrition, maternal and child health, the effect of social determinants on health disparities, especially diet and diet-related disease, monitoring and evaluation of programs and interventions.

E-F-G-H

Patricia Ebener (B.A., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)
Substance abuse epidemiology, treatment services delivery, community health/substance abuse/social services policy, survey research methods. RAND Publications

Maria Edelen (Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Item response theory, scale development, evaluation, multivariate analysis, substance abuse, preventive health care. RAND Publications

Phyllis Ellickson (Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adolescent health, substance abuse prevention, adolescent/young adult violence, HIV risk, use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, effects of advertising on alcohol use. RAND Publications

David Evans (Ph.D., Development and Labor Economics, Harvard University)
Consultant for ICS-Africa Orphan Tracking Project and Child Sponsorship Program Evaluation, referee for the Journal of Development Economics and Comparative Education Review.

Elizabeth Frankenberg (Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
Community and family effects on child health. RAND Publications

Susan Gates (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Child care costs for the Department of Defense, academic quality and productivity, human resource efficiencies, improving the government-university research partnership. RAND Publications

Gabriella Gonzalez (Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University)
Family background and structural constraints, whether school or community, promote or dissuade scholastic achievement and educational attainment of under-represented minority secondary school students; educational attainment and scholastic achievement of children of immigrant parents. RAND Publications

Carole Roan Gresenz (Ph.D., Economics, Brown University)
Federal regulation of employee health benefits, health care quality under managed care, managed behavioral health care, effects of welfare reform on health care. RAND Publications

Beth Ann Griffin (Ph.D., Biostatistics, Harvard University)
Health promotion and disease prevention, K-12 education, quality of care; statistical: survival analysis; design of clinical and non-clinical studies; sampling; biostatistics; substantive: public health interventions, HIV/AIDS.

Laura Hamilton (Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Stanford University)
Psychometrics, measures of student achievement, program evaluation. RAND Publications

Janet Hansen (Ph.D., Public and International Affairs, Princeton University)
K-12 school finance, K-12 school reform, higher education access, affordability, and effectiveness. RAND Publications

Larry Hanser (Ph.D., Industrial/ Organizational Psychology, Iowa State)
Design and evaluation of personnel selection systems, design and evaluation of organization polices, evaluation of public education policies. RAND Publications

Jennifer Hawes-Dawson (B.A., Sociology, Goucher College)
Survey Study Director and Director of Community Outreach for breast cancer screening interventions in low-income communities, survey methodology, data collection management, program evaluation, community-based research, special-population surveys. RAND Publications

Ronald Hays (Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Riverside)
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction, patient adherence and health behaviors. RAND Publications

Liisa Hiatt (M.S., Public Policy Analysis, University of Rochester)
Quality of health care, educational issues relating to bilingual and other underserved children, welfare reform. RAND Publications

Laura Hickman (Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland)
Crime and delinquency, domestic violence, juvenile offenders. RAND Publications

Sarah Hunter (Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
the impact of stress on decisionmaking and cardiovascular health; race and ethnicity; health attitude-behavior relationships, behavioral medicine. RAND Publications

I-J-K-L

Martin Iguchi (Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Boston University)
Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, HIV, outreach, behavioral medicine, behavior modification, treatment outcome. RAND Publications

Lisa Jaycox (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
Mental health, traumatization, quality of life among the mentally ill, dissemination of effective psychotherapy. RAND Publications

Katherine Kahn (M.D., Tufts University)
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, quality of care, outcomes, performance measurement. RAND Publications

David Kanouse (Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University)
Health decisionmaking, sexual risk behavior, HIV-related services research, quality of care, guidelines. RAND Publications

Kanika Kapur (Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University)
Labor and health economics. RAND Publications

Rita Karam (Ph.D., Education, University of California, Riverside)
School policy analysis, quantitative research methods. RAND Publications

Lynn Karoly (Ph.D., Economics, Yale University)
Child well-being, wage and income distribution, youth labor markets, retirement behavior, health insurance. RAND Publications

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. RAND Publications

M. Rebecca Kilburn (Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)
Child and family policy, human capital investments, military manpower, child care, wages and occupational choice. RAND Publications

Sheila Kirby (Ph.D., Economics, George Washington University)
Military manpower, economics of intellectual property, economics of education. RAND Publications

David Klein (M.S., Biometry, University of Southern California)
Health statistics. RAND Publications

Jacob Klerman (M.A., Economics, University of Chicago)
Employee health benefits and health care reform, fertility, welfare policy, labor markets. RAND Publications

Cathy Krop (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)
Education policy. RAND Publications

Marielena Lara (M.D., Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA; Director of UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma; asthma; access and quality of care for underserved populations; Latino health; pediatrics. RAND Publications

Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Columbia University's Teacher College)
Effects of context on human behavior using qualitative and qualitative methods. RAND Publications

Vi-Nhuan Le (Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Stanford University)
Assessment and evaluation. RAND Publications

Yee-Wei Lim (Ph.D., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, M.D., National University of Singapore)
Health care, quality of care, vulnerable populations, health education. RAND Publications

Thomas Lippiatt (M.S., Computer Methods, University of California, Los Angeles)
Computer Science, logistics. RAND Publications

David Loughran (Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland)
Intrahousehold resource allocation and child welfare, family structure, earnings inequality, education, retirement. RAND Publications

M-N-O-P

Susan Marquis (Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan)
Physician payment, health care reform, health plan choice. RAND Publications

Julie Marsh (Ph.D., Administration and Policy Analysis, Education, Stanford University)
K-12 education policy, school-community collaboration, deliberative democracy. RAND Publications

Grant Marshall (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)
Health outcomes, quality of life, patient satisfaction, traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder. RAND Publications

Felipe Martinez (Ph.D., Advanced Quantitative Methods, M.A., Education, University of California, Los Angeles)
Statistical modeling and measurement techniques, effects of opportunity to learn (OTL) on student achievement.

Steve Martino (Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota)
Health promotion and disease prevention, health decision making, psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use, adolescent sexual behavior, media effects on health risk behavior.

Daniel McCaffrey (Ph.D., Statistics, North Carolina State University)
Time series methods, nonparametric regression methods, data analysis. RAND Publications

Kevin McCarthy (Ph.D., Sociology/Demography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Immigration and education, municipal finance, arts education. RAND Publications

Jennifer McCombs (Ph.D., George Washington University)
Teacher preparation reform, field research, teacher education, adolescent literacy, Title I, high-poverty schools, instructional practices, accountability. RAND Publications

Elizabeth McGlynn (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)
Quality and appropriateness of medical and mental health care, managed care. RAND Publications

Brian Mittman (Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Stanford University)
Associate Director, VA/UCLA/RAND Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, Sepulveda VA Medical Center, quality improvement, health provider behavior. RAND Publications

Joy Moini (M.A., Public Policy, Georgetown University; B.A., Urban Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA)
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Andrew Morral (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York)
Substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, substance abuse epidemiology, adolescent substance abuse, behavioral medicine, treatment outcomes, drug courts. RAND Publications

Christopher Nelson (Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Education policy, program evaluation, program implementation, occupational safety, organizational performance. RAND Publications

Sydne Newberry (Ph.D., M.S., A.B., Nutritional Biochemistry, Metabolism, MIT)
Nutrition, nutrition during pregnancy and post-partum period, military health and readiness issues. RAND Publications

Allison Ober (M.S.W., Catholic University of America, B.A., Psychology, University of Vermont)
Drug and alcohol addiction, HIV prevention, long-term foster care, and guardianship.

Carole Oken (M.A., Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles)
Project coordination and management, quality of care, guidelines, community health. RAND Publications

Rosalie Pacula (Ph.D., Economics, Duke University)
Economics of substance use and abuse, drug policy, impact of legislation on health care markets and insurance, labor market effects of health care reform, managed care. RAND Publications

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. RAND Publications

Stan Panis (Ph.D., Economics, University of Southern California)
Labor, health and development economics, law and economics. RAND Publications

Anne Pebley (Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University)
Fertility and marriage patterns, children's health and welfare, family organization in the United States and in developing countries. RAND Publications

Michal Perlman (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Children's development within the context of families, impact of disruption in family life on children, intersection between children and families and the legal system.

Christine Peterson (M.A., Economics, University of Southern California)
Labor and population, economic development, data management, maternal and child health, defense manpower. RAND Publications

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; practice-based research. RAND Publications

Michael Pollard (Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University)
Families and children, ealth promotion and disease prevention, labor and household behavior, family structure and health, nonmarital cohabitation, parent/child interaction, parental gender preference. RAND Publications

Nancy Pollock (M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health)
Alcohol and substance use disorders (prevention, diagnosis, treatment, outcome, mental health services) particularly among adolescents. RAND Publications

Q-R-S-T

Rajeev Ramchand (Ph.D., Psychiatric Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Drug dependence epidemiology, adolescent drug-using behaviors and criminal justice responses to drug use.

Daniel Relles (Ph.D., Statistics, Yale University)
Statisical computing, data analysis, sampling, linear models, data management, military logistics and health applications. RAND Publications

Jeanne Ringel (Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland)
Substance abuse policy, welfare reform, maternal and child health. RAND Publications

Abby Robyn (M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles)
School evaluation, instructional improvement, education policy. RAND Publications

Jeannette Rogowski (Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Retiree health benefits, neonatal intensive care. RAND Publications

Jeff Rothenberg (M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin)
Modeling and simulation theory and practice, representing, evaluating and improving data quality, policy implications of digital record-keeping. RAND Publications

Narayan Sastry (Ph.D., Demography and Public Affairs, Princeton University)
Child health and mortality, population and development, aging. RAND Publications

Terry Schell (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
How demographic and psychological factors interact with public policy issues. Health care, education, and information technology. RAND Publications

Diane Schoeff (B.A., English, Indiana University)
Drug policy research, project administration. RAND Publications

Michael Schoenbaum (Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan)
Health status, health risk behavior, managed care and vulnerable populations, aging. RAND Publications

Dana Schultz (M.P.P., Harvard University)
Child welfare; child health; child safety; violence prevention.

Mark Schuster (M.D., M.P.P., Harvard University; Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Services, UCLA; Director, UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; child and adolescent health; quality of health care; adolescent risk prevention; parent-child communication; immunization delivery; children of HIV-infected adults; physician-patient interactions. RAND Publications

William G. Shadel (Ph.D., Clinical Health Psychology and Social-Personality Psychology, University of Illinois)
Smoking initiation and cessation among adolescents and adults, hard to reach and underserved populations of adult smokers (i.e., alcoholic and drug abusing smokers; HIV-positive smokers).

Rebecca Shaw (M.A., Social Welfare, University of Chicago)
Policy management, program development. RAND Publications listed for Rebecca Shaw and Rebecca Nolind

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. RAND Publications

James Smith (Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)
Employment and wage trends in labor market; poverty, racial, sex, and ethnic labor market outcomes; demography of the United States; compensation in litigation; demography and economic position of older Americans. RAND Publications

Cathleen Stasz (Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles)
Education policy, work-based learning for high school students. RAND Publications

Brian Stecher(Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles)
Educational accountability and assessment. RAND Publications

Bradley Stein (M.D., M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Public Policy, RAND Graduate School)
Health care, substance abuse services research, violence exposure on children. RAND Publications

Roland Sturm (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)
Health care policy, health services research. RAND Publications

Stephanie Taylor (Ph.D., Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University)
Regional and neighborhood effects on health and health service utilization among marginal populations and children. RAND Publications

Shannah Tharp-Taylor (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh)
Children's social and emotional development, program evaluation, public and private education systems, education policy and practice, health disparities, health policy and practice, international and domestic educational and health services.

Joan Tucker (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Riverside)
Psychosocial influences on health and health behavior, substance-abuse prevention. RAND Publications

U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Robert Valdez (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)
Child and adolescent health and development, health care financing and health outcomes assessment, immigration policy, public health systems, social capital and health. RAND Publications

Georges Vernez (Ph.D., Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley)
Immigration reform, urban policy and economic development, strategies for improving minority education. RAND Publications

Mirka Vuollo (M.A., Political Science, University of Cologne, Germany)
International development, children's rights, schooling of refugee children, K-12 education reform.

Jeffrey Wasserman (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)
Tobacco control policy, health promotion and disease prevention, quality of care. RAND Publications

Katherine Watkins (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.S.H.S., University of California, Los Angeles)
Substance abuse, mental illness, gender, welfare reform. RAND Publications

Kenneth Wells (M.D., University of California, San Francisco)
Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, mental health, quality of care, depression. RAND Publications

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. RAND Publications

Jeremy Wilson (Ph.D, Public Administration, The Ohio State University; M.A., Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington)
police organizations, crime control and prevention, gun violence. RAND Publications

Gail Zellman (Ph.D., Social and Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)
Child abuse, prenatal substance exposure, parent education, parent-school involvement, family well-being. RAND Publications

Ron Zimmer (Ph.D., Public Policy, University of Kentucky)
Educational peer effects, educational finance, schooling tracking. RAND Publications

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