Lawrence Baker is an associate policy researcher at RAND. His research focuses on the impact of policy changes on health care access using simulation modeling and econometric methods. He has experience developing models of U.S. health insurance markets, COVID-19 epidemiology, novel Alzheimer's disease therapeutics, and family decisionmaking for dementia care. In other work, he has assessed the impact of extreme heat on local government services, uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations, and the impact of managed care in Medicaid. Baker earned his Ph.D. in policy analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, his M.Sc. in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.Eng. in manufacturing engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Ph.D. in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.Sc. in technology and policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.Eng.-M.Eng. in manufacturing engineering, Cambridge University
