Child Policy Staff
Listed below are RAND staff and consultants who have experience in research related to children.
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Jeremy Arkes |
Class size reduction, vouchers, charter schools, student accountability, school accountability, and school finance reform |
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Catherine Augustine |
Postsecondary education, K-12 education reform, student assessment, and the organizational behavior of educational institutions and systems |
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Dionne Barnes-Proby |
Welfare reform, social and racial inequalities, family structure, juvenile justice, child socialization, adoption and foster care |
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Megan Beckett |
Aging, social and racial inequalities in health, survey methodology, demography |
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Tora Kay Bikson |
Organizational psychology, implications of technology for organizations |
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Marianne Bitler |
Economics of the family, family structure, welfare reform, child support, food assistance programs, maternal and child health, and fertility |
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Ricky Bluthenthal |
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Drew University of Medicine and Science; race, poverty, and infectious disease spread; HIV prevention; illicit drug use; drug enforcement policy |
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Audrey Burnam |
Mental health, homelessness, substance abuse |
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Stephen Carroll |
Higher education finance and governance, K-12 spending |
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Anita Chandra |
Adolescent health, specifically in the areas of youth development, mental health, and reproductive health |
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James Chiesa |
Investments in children, diverting children from a life of crime, communication of research results to policy-oriented audiences |
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Matthew Chinman |
Mental health prevention/intervention programs, substance abuse prevention |
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Deborah Cohen |
Preventive interventions and public health policy, child health policy, maternal, child and adolescent health, alcohol and drug use and HIV/AIDS and STD |
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Rebecca Collins |
HIV and substance-use prevention, psychological adjustment to illness, social behavior |
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Louay Constant |
Education policy, education reform, human capital and skills formation |
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Ian Coulter |
Professor, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, alternative health care, chiropractic, dental care, appropriateness, HIV |
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Amy Cox |
Social inequality by gender, race, and class; poverty and welfare; labor markets and employment; gender, work, and family; family sociology and demography |
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Shelly Culbertson |
NASA and the U.S. aeronautics community coordination with the European Union, supply chain issues for childhood vaccines in developing countries, trade and infrastructure reforms |
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Elizabeth D'Amico |
Mechanisms of adolescent and preadolescent risk taking behavior, peer behavior and peer relations; utilization and effectiveness of intervention services for youth |
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Ashlesha Datar |
Child care, early childhood education, child health |
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David Dausey |
Mental health services, mental health policymaking, maternal and child health, military health |
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Julie DaVanzo |
Labor and population, health, education |
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James Dertouzos |
Economics of mass media regulation, labor economics, manpower, welfare reform |
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Phil Devin |
Integration of information technology into teaching and learning |
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Tamara Dubowitz |
Health promotion and disease prevention, families and children, energy and environment, social epidemiology; neighborhood effects on health and nutrition, maternal and child health, the effect of social determinants on health disparities, especially diet and diet-related disease, monitoring and evaluation of programs and interventions |
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E-F-G-H |
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Patricia Ebener |
Substance abuse epidemiology, treatment services delivery, community health/substance abuse/social services policy, survey research methods |
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Maria Edelen |
Item response theory, scale development, evaluation, multivariate analysis, substance abuse, preventive health care |
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Phyllis Ellickson |
Adolescent health, substance abuse prevention, adolescent/young adult violence, HIV risk, use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, effects of advertising on alcohol use |
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Elizabeth Frankenberg |
Community and family effects on child health |
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Susan Gates |
Child care costs for the Department of Defense, academic quality and productivity, human resource efficiencies, improving the government-university research partnership |
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Gabriella Gonzalez |
Family background and structural constraints, whether school or community, promote or dissuade scholastic achievement and educational attainment of under-represented minority secondary school students; educational attainment and scholastic achievement of children of immigrant parents |
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Carole Roan Gresenz |
Federal regulation of employee health benefits, health care quality under managed care, managed behavioral health care, effects of welfare reform on health care |
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Beth Ann Griffin |
Health promotion and disease prevention, K-12 education, quality of care; statistical: survival analysis; design of clinical and non-clinical studies; sampling; biostatistics; substantive: public health interventions, HIV/AIDS |
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Laura Hamilton |
Psychometrics, measures of student achievement, program evaluation. |
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Jennifer Hawes-Dawson |
Survey Study Director and Director of Community Outreach for breast cancer screening interventions in low-income communities, survey methodology, data collection management, program evaluation, community-based research, special-population surveys |
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Ronald Hays |
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction, patient adherence and health behaviors |
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Liisa Hiatt |
Quality of health care, educational issues relating to bilingual and other underserved children, welfare reform |
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Laura Hickman |
Crime and delinquency, domestic violence, juvenile offenders |
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Sarah Hunter |
The impact of stress on decisionmaking and cardiovascular health; race and ethnicity; health attitude-behavior relationships, behavioral medicine. |
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I-J-K-L |
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Martin Iguchi |
Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, HIV, outreach, behavioral medicine, behavior modification, treatment outcome |
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Lisa Jaycox |
Mental health, traumatization, quality of life among the mentally ill, dissemination of effective psychotherapy |
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Katherine Kahn |
Quality of care, outcomes, performance measurement |
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David Kanouse |
Health decisionmaking, sexual risk behavior, HIV-related services research, quality of care, guidelines |
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Rita Karam |
School policy analysis, quantitative research methods |
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Lynn Karoly |
Child well-being, wage and income distribution, youth labor markets, retirement behavior, health insurance |
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M. Rebecca Kilburn |
Child and family policy, human capital investments, military manpower, child care, wages and occupational choice |
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Marielena Lara |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA; Director of UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma; asthma; access and quality of care for underserved populations; Latino health; pediatrics |
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Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo |
Effects of context on human behavior using qualitative and qualitative methods |
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Vi-Nhuan Le |
Assessment and evaluation |
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Yee-Wei Lim |
Health care, quality of care, vulnerable populations, health education |
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David Loughran |
Intrahousehold resource allocation and child welfare, family structure, earnings inequality, education, retirement. |
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M-N-O-P |
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Julie Marsh |
K-12 education policy, school-community collaboration, deliberative democracy. |
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Grant Marshall |
Health outcomes, quality of life, patient satisfaction, traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder |
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Steve Martino |
Health promotion and disease prevention, health decision making, psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use, adolescent sexual behavior, media effects on health risk behavior |
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Teryn Mattox |
Child and family research and policy, labor econometrics, international development |
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Daniel McCaffrey |
Time series methods, nonparametric regression methods, data analysis |
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Kevin McCarthy |
Immigration and education, municipal finance, arts education |
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Jennifer McCombs |
Teacher preparation reform, field research, teacher education, adolescent literacy, Title I, high-poverty schools, instructional practices, accountability |
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Andrew Morral |
Substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, substance abuse epidemiology, adolescent substance abuse, behavioral medicine, treatment outcomes, drug courts |
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Christopher Nelson |
Education policy, program evaluation, program implementation, occupational safety, organizational performance |
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Sydne Newberry |
Nutrition, nutrition during pregnancy and post-partum period, military health and readiness issues |
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Allison Ober |
Drug and alcohol addiction, HIV prevention, long-term foster care, and guardianship |
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Carole Oken |
Project coordination and management, quality of care, guidelines, community health |
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Rosalie Pacula |
Economics of substance use and abuse, drug policy, impact of legislation on health care markets and insurance, labor market effects of health care reform, managed care |
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John Pane |
Education technology, data driven decision-making in education, math and science education, human-computer interaction, computer interface design, impact of technology on individuals and organizations, randomized controlled experiments on the effectiveness of educational interventions |
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Anne Pebley |
Fertility and marriage patterns, children's health and welfare, family organization in the United States and in developing countries |
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Christine Peterson |
Labor and population, economic development, data management, maternal and child health, defense manpower |
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Michael Pollard |
Families and children, ealth promotion and disease prevention, labor and household behavior, family structure and health, nonmarital cohabitation, parent/child interaction, parental gender preference |
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Nancy Pollock |
Alcohol and substance use disorders (prevention, diagnosis, treatment, outcome, mental health services) particularly among adolescents. |
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Q-R-S-T |
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Rajeev Ramchand |
Drug dependence epidemiology, adolescent drug-using behaviors and criminal justice responses to drug use. |
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Jeanne Ringel |
Substance abuse policy, welfare reform, maternal and child health |
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Abby Robyn |
School evaluation, instructional improvement, education policy |
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Narayan Sastry |
Child health and mortality, population and development, aging |
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Terry Schell |
How demographic and psychological factors interact with public policy issues. Health care, education, and information technology |
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Diane Schoeff |
Drug policy research, project administration |
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Michael Schoenbaum |
Health status, health risk behavior, managed care and vulnerable populations, aging |
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Dana Schultz |
Child welfare; child health; child safety; violence prevention |
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Mark Schuster |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Services, UCLA; Director, UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; child and adolescent health; quality of health care; adolescent risk prevention; parent-child communication; immunization delivery; children of HIV-infected adults; physician-patient interactions |
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William G. Shadel |
Smoking initiation and cessation among adolescents and adults, hard to reach and underserved populations of adult smokers (i.e., alcoholic and drug abusing smokers; HIV-positive smokers) |
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Rebecca Shaw |
Policy management, program development |
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Cathy Sherbourne |
Health status, assessment, social support, patient adherence, coping styles, child health, mental health, anxiety disorder |
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James Smith |
Employment and wage trends in labor market; poverty, racial, sex, and ethnic labor market outcomes; demography of the United States; compensation in litigation; demography and economic position of older Americans |
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Cathleen Stasz |
Education policy, work-based learning for high school students |
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Brian Stecher |
Educational accountability and assessment |
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Bradley Stein |
Health care, substance abuse services research, violence exposure on children |
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Roland Sturm |
Health care policy, health services research |
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Stephanie Taylor |
Regional and neighborhood effects on health and health service utilization among marginal populations and children |
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Shannah Tharp-Taylor |
Children's social and emotional development, program evaluation, public and private education systems, education policy and practice, health disparities, health policy and practice, international and domestic educational and health services |
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Joan Tucker |
Psychosocial influences on health and health behavior, substance-abuse prevention. |
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U-V-W-X-Y-Z |
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Georges Vernez |
Immigration reform, urban policy and economic development, strategies for improving minority education |
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Mirka Vuollo |
International development, children's rights, schooling of refugee children, K-12 education reform |
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Jeffrey Wasserman |
Tobacco control policy, health promotion and disease prevention, quality of care |
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Katherine Watkins |
Substance abuse, mental illness, gender, welfare reform |
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Kenneth Wells |
Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, mental health, quality of care, depression |
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Suzanne Wenzel |
Substance abuse, violence, mental health, needs and service use among homeless and other impoverished groups |
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Gail Zellman |
Child abuse, prenatal substance exposure, parent education, parent-school involvement, family well-being |
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Ron Zimmer |
Educational peer effects, educational finance, schooling tracking |
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