Lisa Miyashiro

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Research Programmer & Analyst
Santa Monica Office

Education

M.S. in public policy/admin/analysis, Carnegie Mellon University; B.A. in interdisciplinary field studie, UC Berkeley

Overview

Biography

Lisa Miyashiro is a research programmer and analyst at RAND. She has extensive experience with analyzing data on a range of project topics including international and domestic health, military and criminal justice fields. Through her experience, she has developed expertise in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Atlast.ti, SAS and GeoClip to perform a combination of quantitative, qualitative and spatial analysis. Miyashiro received her MS in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Recent Projects

  • Urban Congregations' Capacity for HIV Prevention & Care
  • Mapping the Gaps- Enhancing Local Health Departments Capacity to Match Services to Health Needs
  • Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Improvement
  • Combining Patient and Geospatial Data to Target Low Health Literacy in Missouri
  • Project Air Force Readiness

Selected Publications

Laurie T. Martin, Allen Fremont, Alexandria Felton, Teague Ruder, Chloe E. Bird, Lisa Miyashiro, Mark Hanson, Nicole Lurie, Prototype Interactive Mapping Tool to Target Low Health Literacy in Missouri, RAND Corporation (TR-811-MFH), 2010

Lois M. Davis, Nancy Nicosia, Adrian Overton, Lisa Miyashiro, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Terry Fain, Susan Turner, Paul Steinberg, Eugene Williams, III, Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California, RAND Corporation (TR-687-TCE), 2009