Melissa Davoust

Melissa Davoust (she/her) is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her broad range of research interests and experiences lie in program evaluation and implementation science projects focused on improving access to and engagement in behavioral and sexual/reproductive health care, as well as reducing health disparities in these areas. She has expertise in qualitative research and mixed method evaluations of interventions that bridge communities and health services, particularly treatment for substance use disorders and HIV. Her recent work has included the study of telemedicine in office-based buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder, public safety and public health partnerships that aim to facilitate substance use disorder treatment referrals, and community health worker programs focused on improving equity in HIV care access and engagement.

Before joining RAND, Davoust worked as a research program manager at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and prior to that, as a consultant with Atlas Research, where she engaged in contract research and evaluation projects for federal health and social service agencies, such as the VHA, CDC, HRSA, and OASH. She is a Ph.D. candidate in health services and policy research at the Boston University School of Public Health, and previously recieved her M.Sc. in evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation from the University of Oxford.