Marla C. Haims

Biography

Marla C. Haims is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute (RQPI) in Doha, Qatar. She most recently served at RAND as associate director of the Global Health initiative. Her fields of study and work are sociotechnical systems engineering, organizational design and management, quality of care, international health policy and systems design, and the intersection of development and security. As a charter member of the core research staff at RQPI through 2005, she gained broad experience working directly with public institutions in the Arabian Gulf to develop sound policy options and strategic plans. Haims has played a key role in assisting the Qatari government and other international clients to develop and implement innovative and sound policies in the areas of health care, foreign assistance, and public services. She has done extensive work in strategic planning, program design, and program evaluations. Haims has recently developed a guidebook for monitoring and evaluating U.S. Department of Defense humanitarian assistance activities around the world and has been involved in a variety of other initiatives looking at the intersections of health, development, and security.

Prior to her position at RAND, she was a scientist at the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement and served as a consultant at the Office of Quality Improvement, both at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Haims received her Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from UW–Madison.