Judith F. Perlman

Biography

Judith Perlman is the Deputy Director of RAND's Survey Research Group. She has 20 years of experience in planning and directing large-scale data collection projects in the health sciences. She has expertise in data collection design and methodology and has directed data collection for large and complex projects involving difficult populations, such as the homeless, prostitutes, physicians, and residents of disadvantaged communities. Perlman has worked closely with administrators of health service centers and health maintenance organizations to establish cooperation between the providers of information and the data collection staff. She has extensive experience in training and has been consultant for several research institutions, universities and treatment centers for her expertise in data collection methodologies, training, and implementation strategies. She has worked with physicians to develop procedures, training and implementation for interviewer administered health exams of a homeless population in Los Angeles. She is trainer for the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, and has been trained in the CIDI by trainers from the University of Michigan and the World Health Organization. Her experience includes study design and study direction for the Epidemiological Catchment Area Project (Los Angeles), The Medical Outcomes Study, Course of Homelessness Study, Cost of AIDS Care Study, Indonesian Family Life Study and several Child Immunization studies involving household interviews and follow up interviews of African American mothers of newborn babies.