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Lois M. Davis (she/her) is a senior policy researcher at RAND. She has over 35 years research experience in the areas of public safety and public health, with a focus on justice-involved populations. Her expertise includes correctional education, prisoner re-entry, and public safety. She has extensive experience in program evaluation working with agencies and organizations involved in service provision, policymaking, or the administration of programs. Davis currently is leading a multi-year evaluation of California's 1170.01 County Resentencing Pilot Program. She also is leading a study to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prison education in the United States. Davis will be leading the evaluation of the Reentry Initiative Component of the UCLA Evaluation of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Section 1115(a) Demonstration. She coauthored the 2021 guidebook What Corrections Officials Need to Know to Partner with Colleges to Implement College Programs in Prisons.
Past research includes a national evaluation of the effectiveness of educational and vocational training programs for incarcerated adults and juveniles funded under the Second Chance Act; a multi-year evaluation of welfare reform in California; development of a long-term evaluation framework for the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care; and a study to assess the public health implications of prisoner reentry in California. Davis received her Ph.D. in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ph.D. in public health, University of California, Los Angeles
