Jeanne S. Ringel

Biography

Jeanne S. Ringel is a senior economist at RAND, a faculty member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an adjunct lecturer in the School of Policy Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. She has conducted research on a variety of topics including public health preparedness, health care financing and organization, and substance abuse. In the area of public health preparedness, Ringel's work focuses on pandemic influenza preparedness. She has participated in a series of projects under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services involving a review of the national pandemic influenza preparedness plan, the development of benchmarks and milestones for gauging progress toward pandemic preparedness, the development of a pandemic influenza decisionmaking guide, and an evaluation of the federal response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Prior to coming to RAND, Ringel was an assistant professor in the economics department at Louisiana State University. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Biography

Jeanne S. Ringel is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and leader of the Public Health Systems and Preparedness initiative within RAND Health. She is a faculty member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an adjunct lecturer in the School of Policy Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. Prior to RAND, Ringel was an assistant professor in the economics department at Louisiana State University.

In the area of public health preparedness, Ringel's work focuses on pandemic influenza preparedness. She has participated in a series of projects under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services involving a review of the national pandemic influenza preparedness plan, the development of benchmarks and milestones for gauging progress toward pandemic preparedness, the development of a pandemic influenza decisionmaking guide, and an evaluation of the federal response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

In the area of health care financing and organization, Ringel has conducted analyses of the recent health reform legislation estimating the effects on insurance coverage and costs. She also co-led a series of projects funded by the Veterans Administration (VA) that modeled differences in treatment costs between the VA's regional networks in an effort to improve the VA's budget allocation methods.

She has also conducted numerous studies of the effects of public policy on alcohol and tobacco use.

Ringel received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.