Staff
Staff Leadership
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Dana GoldmanDana Goldman is Director of the Bing Center. He holds the RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Economics. In addition to being on the faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Dana is an adjunct professor at both the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA School of Public Health. He is also the director of the RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation, which is designed to provide better estimates of the effects of health policy changes. His research interests combine applied microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes.
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Darius LakdawallaDarius Lakdawalla is Director of Research for the Bing Center. His research has been concerned with the economics of risks to health, and the organization of health care markets. In particular, he has published studies exploring the reasons behind the declining use of nursing homes by the elderly, rising rates of obesity in America, acceleration in the rate of new HIV infections, and the surprising growth in disability among younger Americans. Dr. Lakdawalla received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Amherst College. His work has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy. He is currently a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, MA, and is a Professor of Economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy.
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Staff Researchers
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Melinda Beeuwkes BuntinMelinda Beeuwkes Buntin is a health economist at RAND specializing in the economics of the Medicare program. Her interests also include the individual health insurance market, benefit design and "consumer-directed" health care, and the financing of care for the chronically and seriously ill.
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Christine EibnerChristine Eibner is an associate economist at RAND. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic disparities in health, employer sponsored insurance, military medical policy, and modeling the effect of health care policy changes on costs, insurance coverage, and other outcomes.
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Emmett KeelerEmmett Keeler is a senior mathematician at RAND and a professor at UCLA and the RAND Graduate School, teaching health economics and cost-effective analysis. His research interests include the theory and practice of decision analyses and cost effectiveness analysis of clinical procedures and cancer screening.
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M. Susan MarquisM. Susan Marquis, PhD, is a senior health economist at RAND. Much of her research over the past decade has focused on the private health insurance market. |
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Geoffrey JoyceGeoffrey Joyce is a senior economist at RAND, Co-Director of the UCLA-RAND Health Services Research Training Program, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health. He has particular interest and experience in the costs of delivering health care, with an emphasis on the impact of benefit design on drug costs, utilization, and adherence. |
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Nicole MaestasNicole Maestas is an Associate Economist at RAND. Her research interests include applied microeconomics and the economics of aging, with a current focus on Medicare beneficiaries and the effect of Medicare on disparities in health, mortality, and health care utilization by older adults. |
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John RomleyJohn Romley (PhD Economics, Stanford University) is an Associate Economist at RAND. His research focuses on empirical analysis of health policy, with an emphasis on determinants of decisionmaking, such as influences on problem-drinking behavior and on market-entry decisions of junior physicians.
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Seth SeaburySeth Seabury is an economist at RAND. His research focuses on how law and legal institutions impact health care and labor markets, with a particular emphasis on medical malpractice, workers' compensation, and the health and employment outcomes of the disabled. |
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Neeraj SoodNeeraj Sood, PhD is an associate economist in RAND. His research focuses on health economics and health policy research, with an emphasis on outlier payment policies for the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system, the role of payment generosity on resource use for acute care patients, the effects of insurance on HIV-related mortality and the role of price regulation in health and life insurance markets.
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Shinyi WuShinyi Wu is a health systems engineer and the associate director of the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation at RAND. She is also an assistant professor of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern California, and affiliated faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on application of quality improvement and assessment methods, decision analysis and simulation modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis to improve health care delivery and health policy.
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Hao YuHao Yu is an Associate Policy Researcher at RAND. He has particular interest and experience in studying the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) in the U.S. and health care reforms in China.
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