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RAND advances understanding of health and health behaviors and examines how the organization and financing of care affect costs, quality, and access. RAND's body of research—conducted primarily through the RAND Health division—includes innovative studies of health insurance, health care reform, health information technology, and women's health, as well as topical concerns such as obesity, complementary and alternative medicine, and PTSD in veterans and survivors of catastrophe.

Research conducted by: RAND Health; Military Health Policy Research; RAND Europe; RAND Drug Policy Research Center; RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment; RAND Labor and Population; RAND Gulf States Policy Institute

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The Affordable Care Act: Four Key Policy Areas

Obama signing the ACA

With the complex process of implementing the ACA underway, RAND research is tracking the progress of implementation and assessing the potential consequences of choices facing federal and state governments, employers, families, and individuals.

Four Strategies to Contain America's Growing Health Care Spending

pills and coins

In its second term, the Obama Administration can restrain further health care spending growth—without compromising quality—by employing four broad strategies: fostering efficient and accountable providers, engaging and empowering consumers, promoting population health, and facilitating high-value innovation.

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Joie Acosta

Behavioral Scientist; Affiliated Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in community and cultural psychology, University of Hawai'i

David M. Adamson

Senior Communications Analyst
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in English, Yale University

Emma Aguila

Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy; Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University College London; M.Sc. in economics, University College London; B.A. in economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Abby Alpert

Associate Economist
Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland; B.S. in mathematics and economics, University of Chicago

Ruopeng An

Assistant Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation; Doctoral Fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. candidate (M.Phil.) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.P in public policy, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); B.A. in political science and public administration, Peking University

C. Ross Anthony

Leader, Global Health Initiative, RAND Health; Director, RAND Palestine Initiative
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, M.A. in economic history, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in history, Williams College

Eric Apaydin

Assistant Policy Analyst
M.P.P. in public policy/admin/analysis, University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in biology, University of California, San Diego; B.S. in physiology and neuroscience, University of California, San Diego

Rae W. Archibald

Senior Consultant; Vice-President (retired)
Ph.D. in city and regional planning, University of California, Berkeley

Mark V. Arena

Senior Physical Scientist

Jeremy Arkes

Associate Economist
Ph.D. in economics, University of Wisconsin

Steven M. Asch

Adjunct Policy Analyst
M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles; B.S. in biology, Yale University

David I. Auerbach

Policy Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in health economics, Harvard University; M.S. in environmental science & policy, MIT; M.S. in chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in chemistry, MIT

Lynsay Ayer

Associate Behavioral & Social Scientist
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Vermont; B.A. in psychology, Cornell University

Nono Ayivi-Guedehoussou

Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in global health and population, Harvard University School of Public Health; B.S. in biochemistry, Suffolk University

Sarah Ball

Analyst
B.A. (Hons) in psychology, University of Nottingham; Ph.D. in psychology, University of Cambridge

Anil Bamezai

Adjunct Staff
Ph.D. in public policy, administration, and analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in science, technology and values, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.Tech. in naval architecture, Indian Institute of Technology

Silvia Helena Barcellos

Associate Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio; B.A. in economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio

Benjamin Batorsky

Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. student in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; B.A. in English and history, Rutgers University

Sebastian Bauhoff

Associate Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in health economics, Harvard University; M.P.A. in international development, Harvard University; B.Sc. in economics with economic history, London School of Economics

Kirsten Becker

Survey Director
M.S. in international health, Harvard University; B.A. in health and society, Brown University

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