Paul Koegel

Biography

Paul Koegel is an Associate Director of RAND Health and manages the internal affairs of its more than 60-million research portfolio.

Koegel's 25-year research career as a medical and urban anthropologist has focused on the effect of health care systems on the adaptation of vulnerable populations—for example, homeless individuals, adults with mental illness, and substance abusers—to urban settings. He is currently developing methods for researchers to work together with community partners to solve community problems. He worked closely with Healthy African American Families (HAAF) on the Witness for Wellness initiative, a South Los Angeles community-based participatory research effort that mobilized community members to devise and implement quality improvement strategies that target depression and depression care. He is currently contributing to Community Partners in Care, a randomized clinical trial of the impact of community engagement strategies on the uptake of evidence-based depression care in underserved communities.

Koegel received a BA from Queens College, City University of New York, and MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from UCLA.