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RAND Health Seminar Series

RAND Health Seminars take place monthly on Mondays, from noon to 1 p.m. Pacific Time. (3 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time).

For more information on these seminars, or if you would like to request a presentation, please contact Maggie Snyder at (703) 413-1100, ext. 5655.

To suggest a seminar speaker, please contact Daniel Kim or Andrew Mulcahy.

Upcoming Seminars

Date	Host Location	Speaker	Title of Seminar
4/29/13	Boston	David Kent Director of the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) MS/PhD Program, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University; Associate Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and CTS,Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine	Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect: A General Framework

Date	Host Location	Speaker	Title of Seminar
1/14/13	Santa Monica	Gary Taubes Science & Health Journalist	Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity
3/4/13	Pittsburgh	Sally C. Morton Chair, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh	Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), Funding (PCORI), and All That Jazz From a Statistician's Perspective

Date	Host Location	Speaker	Title of Seminar
1/30/12	Washington	Robert Philips Robert Graham Center	The Value of New Primary Care Models and Population Health Accountability
2/20/12	Santa Monica	Chloe Bird The RAND Corporation	Constrained Choice: Examining How Built and Social Environments Shape Men's and Women's Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes
4/9/12	Washington	Rachel Werner General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania	The Effect of Medicaid-based Payment Incentives on Nursing Home Quality
4/16/12	Washington	Thomas Glass Johns Hopkins School of Public Health	Round Peg in a Square Hole: Epidemiology, Obesity and the Emergence of Systems Science
5/7/12	Boston	Ichiro Kawachi Harvard School of Public Health	Income Inequality and Population Health
5/21/12	Pittsburgh	Julie Donohue University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health	U.S. Physician Prescribing Practices in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Antipsychotics
10/9/12 (Tuesday)	Boston	Jonathan Gruber MIT	Measuring Returns to Hospital Care: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
11/19/12	Washington	Gerard Anderson Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Are Prices Still the Main Reason Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Countries on Health Care?
12/3/12	Washington	Pamela Collins National Institutes of Health	Mental Health Disparities: A Global Perspective