RAND Expert Biography
Robert H. Brook
Vice President, RAND Corporation; Director, RAND Health; Distinguished Chair in Health Care Services; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Professor of Medicine and Health Services and Director, Clinical Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise
Development and use of health-status measurements in health policy, efficiency and effectiveness of medical care, quality assessment and assurance, variation in the use of medical services across geographic areas
Education
M.D. and Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University
Publications of Interest
"How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?" M. A. Schuster et al., The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 4, Dec 2005
"Identifying Potential Health Care Innovations for the Future Elderly," P. G. Shekelle et al., Health Affairs [Web exclusive], Sept 2005
"Recommendations for Comparing Electronic Prescribing Systems: Results of an Expert Consensus Process," Douglas S. Bell et al., Health Affairs [Web exclusive], May 2004
"Surgical Quality: Review of Californian Measures," M. S. Broder et al., British Medical Journal, Vol. 328, No. 7432, Jan 2004
Background
Brook is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Association of Physicians. In 2005, Brook won the Institute of Medicine's Gustav O. Lienhard Award, cited "as the individual who, more than any other, developed the science of measuring the quality of medical care and focused U.S. policymakers' attention on quality-of-care issues and their implications for the nation's health." He has also been awarded the Baxter Foundation Prize for excellence in health services research, the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of Physicians for contributions to improving the health of the nation, the Distinguished Health Services Researcher Award of the Association of Health Services Research, and the Robert J. Glaser Award of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: American Medical News; Business Times Singapore; Business Week; Forbes; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Sacramento Bee
Video Interviews: Dr. Robert Brook discusses the challenges of mandatory health care and looks at the critical health care issues in the 2008 election. (This interview appears on tci1.org.)
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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