Researcher Spotlight
Assistant Policy Analyst
Abdul Ahad Tariq is a doctoral student at PRGS. Previously he was a research assistant in public and labor economics at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his B.S. in chemistry (emphasis in chemical physics) from the California Institute of Technology. His undergraduate research was in…
Associate Economist
Leandro Carvalho in an associate economist whose research interests include topics in development, labor, and health economics. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Carvalho has studied the time preferences of poor families; gender discrimination in India; the importance of…
Affiliated Adjunct Staff
Christopher S. Saigal is a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate professor in the Department of Urology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His research has focused on quality of care, shared decisionmaking, practice patterns, and costs of care. He is the principal investigator…
Director, International Programs
Robin Meili is a senior management systems analyst and director of International Programs at the RAND Corporation. Her primary responsibility is globalizing RAND's research portfolio. Her research at RAND has included work on the impact of technology in health care delivery and decision support,…
Assistant Policy Analyst
Kun Gu is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Gu graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.A. and a M.A. in economics. Prior to coming to PRGS, Gu was a member at the China Center for Political Economy and worked as a research assistant at Center for Chinese Enterprise…
Senior Mathematician
Emmett Keeler is a senior mathematician at RAND and a professor at UCLA and the Pardee RAND Graduate School and is the principal investigator of the Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE). He has conducted technical analyses for dozens of studies evaluating quality improvement…
Director, Public Health Systems and Preparedness Initiative, RAND Health
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…
Associate Economist
Marco Angrisani is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research interests span across labor economics, applied microeconomics, public finance, and financial economics. His current projects focus on household finance and saving…
Senior Policy Researcher
Cheryl Damberg is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her areas of expertise include pay for performance (P4P), quality measurement, patient safety, consumer-directed health plans, and assessing the impact of health care reform…
Assistant Policy Analyst
Ning Fu is a doctoral student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her experience at RAND includes logistics, education policy, and health policy. Her interest is in health economics, health insurance and the social security area. She is now working on her disseration dealing with health market…
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