Rajeev Ramchand

Biography

Rajeev Ramchand is a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on four areas: (1) psychosocial risk factors for adolescent delinquency (e.g., substance use, criminal offending); (2) consequences of substance use from both criminal justice and treatment perspectives; (3) the epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring conditions; and (4) the mental health of servicemembers, particularly those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent research includes an investigation of the link between adolescent part-time work and its association with substance using behaviors; a study on case-mix adjustment for evaluating substance abuse treatment programs; an evaluation of current efforts to prevent suicide among U.S. servicemembers; and a review of epidemiologic methods used to estimate the prevalence of PTSD among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Ramchand is proficient in and often employs advanced epidemiologic and biostatistical methods, including causal modeling and psychometric analysis (e.g., latent variable and structural equation models). He is a member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the American Association of Suicidology, and the American Public Health Association. In other work, Ramchand has investigated access to and the provision of optimal health care among vulnerable populations, particularly immigrants and sexual minorities. Ramchand received his B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.