Catherine "Katie" Cohen is a nurse scientist and health services researcher at RAND. Her work advances the quality of health care services delivery through research and policy. Her work often uses mixed methods, including econometric analyses of large datasets and qualitative primary data collection, especially from nurses, health care administrators, physicians, and other health care clinicians. Cohen's research interests include improving the quality of hospice, end-of-life, and post-acute care and the prevention of health care-associated infections, especially for older adults. Her work recently includes the integration of technology to improve systems and processes of health services delivery. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, her work has also included improvement of health systems, including preparation for future public health emergencies, both in civilian and military health systems. She has co-led strategic assessments for the U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard. Her work has also been funded by the National Institutes of Nursing Research, the National Institute on Aging, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and The Wonderful Company. She completed post-doctoral training in comparative and cost-effectiveness methodology at Columbia University School of Nursing's Center for Health Policy. She earned her B.A. in economics and biology from Swarthmore College and completed her B.S. and Ph.D. at Columbia University School of Nursing.
B.A. in economics, biology, Swarthmore College; B.S. in nursing, Columbia University; Ph.D. in nursing, Columbia University
