David M. Adamson

Biography

David Adamson is a communications analyst (CA). In his current assignment, he is Deputy Director of Communications for RAND Health. He works with health researchers to improve the clarity and audience appropriateness of all health research communications. He also drafts research briefs, newsletters, unit overview materials, and web content and helps craft grant proposals. Since starting at RAND in 1990, he has worked across all of RAND's research units. Prior to joining RAND Health, he was the lead CA for RAND's Science and Technology Policy Institute, 1992-2003. He left RAND in 2004 to join Thomson Medstat, a healthcare data and analysis firm, and returned to RAND in 2006.

Before coming to RAND, Adamson taught writing and literature at UCLA and at Cal-Poly Pomona. Prior to that, he worked as a legislative editor for the Democratic Study Group in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a proofreader for U.S. News and World Report magazine.