Dana Schultz

Biography

Dana Schultz is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, with experience in research design, data collection and analysis, and program evaluation. She has led or co-led several projects involving process and outcome evaluation design, implementation, and analysis. Her research focuses on child welfare and children's exposure to violence. She is the co-principal investigator for the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches, which examines the effectiveness of school- and community-based mental health interventions aimed at reducing the harmful effects of children's exposure to violence; the principal investigator for a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of the community-based programs funded with Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Funds on smoking and other health-related outcomes; and leader of the evaluation component for a county-wide quality improvement initiative on the efficacy of family-centered interventions for low-income families facing dual risks of parental depression and early childhood developmental delays. As principal investigator, she helped develop and implement a toolkit for an evidence-based school intervention for traumatized youth in foster care and conducted secondary data analysis on the relationship between protective factors and outcomes for children investigated for maltreatment using the National Survey of Adolescent and Child Well-Being data. Schultz received her M.P.P. from Harvard University.