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Staff

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, DPRC Co-Director (Ph.D., Economics, Duke University) economics of substance use and abuse; drug policy and drug markets, marijuana policy, impact of funding volatility on AOD treatment services. RAND Publications

Peter Reuter, DPRC Co-Director (Ph.D., Economics, Yale University) organization of illegal markets; alternative approaches to controlling drug problems in the United States and Western Europe; the global heroin industry; money-laundering policy. RAND Publications

Joie Acosta (Ph.D., University of Hawai’i) research and evaluation of multi-level comprehensive community initiatives; violence and substance abuse prevention; public health/emergency preparedness and response; adolescent health.

Jeremy Arkes (Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin) adolescent drug use; economics of substance abuse; teenage pregnancy; education and health relationship. RAND Publications

Ricky Bluthenthal (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Berkeley) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Drew University of Medicine and Science; race, poverty, and infectious disease spread; HIV prevention; illicit drug use; drug enforcement policy. RAND Publications

Audrey Burnam (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Texas) mental health and substance abuse, delivery of services for drug abusers. RAND Publications

Jim Chiesa (M.A., Zoology, Indiana University; M.S., Environmental Science, Indiana University) mandatory sentencing, diverting children from a life of crime, communication of research results to policy-oriented audiences. RAND Publications

Matthew Chinman (Ph.D., Clinical/Community Psychology, University of South Carolina) subtance abuse prevention; dissemination of evidence-based prevention; program evaluation; quality assurance in mental health systems; mutual support; mental health consumers. RAND Publications

Deborah Cohen (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.P.H., Epidemiology, UCLA ) public health; social and environmental (structural) risk factors; prevention policy; STD/HIV and alcohol. RAND Publications

Elizabeth D'Amico (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Texas at Austin) adolescent and young adult risk-taking behavior; substance use prevention; adolescent utilization of health- related services. RAND Publications

Patricia Ebener (B.A., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University) substance abuse epidemiology; treatment services delivery; community health/substance abuse/social services policy; substance abuse indication systems; survey research methods. RAND Publications

Maria Orlando Edelman (Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) item response theory, scale development, evaluation; multivariate analysis; substance abuse; preventive health care. RAND Publications

Carol Edwards (B.A., Biology, Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA) labor and population; health care; drug policy; Institute for Civil Justice; Project AF Air Mobility. RAND Publications

Christine Eibner (Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland) substance use; health promotion & disease prevention; mental health. RAND Publications

Phyllis Ellickson (Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) adolescent health; substance abuse prevention; adolescent/young adult violence, HIV risk, and use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs; effects of advertising on alcohol use. RAND Publications

Susan Everingham (M.A., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles) criminal justice system modeling, sentencing reforms, violence reduction, drug policy. RAND Publications

Terry Fain (M.A., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University; M.S., Clinical Psychology, California State University Los Angeles; M.A., Sociology, Vanderbilt University) criminal justice, substance abuse, research programming. RAND Publications

Donna Farley (Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.P.H., Environmental Health Management, University of Illinois) health care and hospital management; payment methods and patterns of health service delivery. RAND Publications

Katherine Harris (Ph.D., Public Health, University of Minnesota) substance abuse treatment; mental healthcare. RAND Publications

Todd Helmus (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University) meta-analysis on contingency management; evaluation of California's Proposition 36; studies of methadone maintenance treatment and post-traumatic stress reactions. RAND Publications

Sarah Hunter (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara) substance abuse prevention and treatment, mental health, community participatory research, program evaluation. RAND Publications

Martin Y. Iguchi (Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Boston University, Former DPRC Director) substance abuse; substance abuse treatment; HIV; outreach; behavioral medicine; behavior modification; behavioral interventions in methadone drug treatment programs; treatment outcome. RAND Publications

Lisa Jaycox (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania); mental health; traumatization; quality of life among the mentally ill; dissemination of effective psychotherapy. RAND Publications

Jim Kahan (Ph.D., Mathematical Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) resident at RAND Europe in the Netherlands; international aspects of health care policy and measurement; individual and small group decisionmaking process, especially with respect to guidelines for care; appropriateness of care). RAND Publications

David Kanouse (Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University) health decisionmaking; sexual risk behavior; HIV-related services research; quality of care; guidelines. RAND Publications

Beau Kilmer. Ph.D. Public Policy, Harvard University. substance use; crime control; illicit markets; mental health.RAND Publications

Grant Marshall (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles) adjustment to community violence, violence prevention, role of the media in the portrayal of violence; health outcomes; quality of life; patient satisfaction; traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder. RAND Publications

Steven Martino (Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota) health decision making; psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use; physician-patient interaction; media effects on health risk behavior. RAND Publications

Daniel McCaffrey (Ph.D., Statistics, North Carolina State University) education, drug policy, health, and civil justice issues; analysis of complex survey data; nonparametric regression; data analysis. RAND Publications

Andrew Morral (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York) substance abuse; substance abuse treatment; substance abuse epidemiology; adolescent substance abuse; behavioral medicine; methadone drug treatment intervention; treatment outcomes; drug courts. RAND Publications

Nancy Nicosia (Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley)substance use and abuse; health; crime. RAND Publications

Susan Paddock (Ph.D., Statistics, Duke University) substance abuse treatment and prevention; health care policy; HIV/AIDS; Medicare; Bayesian statistics; hierarchical models; missing data; causal inference. RAND Publications

Rajeev Ramchand (Ph.D., Public Health, Johns Hopkins University) substance use and abuse; mental health; access to healthcare for vulnerable populations.RAND Publications

M. Susan Ridgely (J.D., University of Maryland School of Law; M.S.W., University of Maryland School of Social Work and Community Planning) mental health and addictions services research; managed care; health law. RAND Publications

Jeanne Ringel (Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland) substance abuse policy; maternal and child health; tobacco control.RAND Publications

Claude Setodji (Ph.D., Statistics, University of Minnesota) health care policy; minority health care; use of statistics in health policy; HIV/AIDS; data reduction and visualization; large data sets; drug policy. RAND Publications

Bradley Stein (M.D., M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D. Candidate, RAND Graduate School; Assistant Professor, Division of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California) drug and alcohol treatment services under managed care. RAND Publications

Marika Suttorp (M.S., Biostatistics, University of California at Los Angeles) biostatisics, meta-analysis, survey data, statistical programming. RAND Publications

Joan Tucker (Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of California, Riverside) adolescent and young adult substance use; violence; HIV risk; interpersonal influences on health and health behavior. RAND Publications

Susan Turner (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of North Carolina) violent offender initiative, truth-in-sentencing, sentencing and corrections, drug treatment, juvenile justice. RAND Publications

Glenn Wagner (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, St. John's University) mental health and quality-of-life interventions for those with serious medical illness; HIV care.

Jeffrey Wasserman (Ph.D., RAND Graduate School) tobacco control policy; health promotion and disease prevention; quality of care; public health, violence prevention. RAND Publications

Katherine Watkins (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.S.H.S., University of California, Los Angeles) substance abuse; mental illness; gender; welfare reform. RAND Publications

Suzanne Wenzel (Ph.D., Psychology, University of Texas at Austin) substance abuse; violence; mental health; needs and service use among homeless and other impoverished groups. RAND Publications

Barbara Williams (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois). RAND Publications

Jeremy Wilson (Ph.D, Public Administration, Ohio State University; M.A., Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington) police organizations; crime control and prevention; gun violence; substance use. RAND Publications

Eunice Wong (Ph.D., Clincal Psychology, UC Santa Barbara) mental health and substance abuse trauma; culturally diverse populations.RAND Publications

Gail Zellman (Ph.D., Social and Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles) child abuse; prenatal substance exposure; nursing home care. RAND Publications

Academic Consultants

Jonathan Caulkins. Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. RAND Publications

Robert MacCoun. Goldman School of Public Policy and Boalt School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. RAND Publications

Patrick Murphy. Department of Politics, University of San Francisco. RAND Publications