Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
He/Him
Jay Balagna (he/him) is a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. His research interests include disaster studies, disaster risk management, the influence of climate change on disasters, climate-related and post-disaster migration, and the social determinants of health.
Prior to joining Pardee RAND, Balagna was a wildland firefighter in Nevada and Montana, an emergency medical technician in Los Angeles, and a political journalist working in the United States and Chile. He has an MPhil in policy analysis from Pardee RAND, an M.P.H. from Emory University, and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Nevada, Reno.
MPhil in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.H. in prevention science and practice, Emory University; B.A. in Spanish, University of Nevada, Reno
