Natalie C. Ernecoff is a policy researcher at RAND. Her research focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating systems-level palliative care, hospice, nursing home, and home care interventions. Her work includes innovative models of hospice and palliative care delivery, health care system informatics, and systematic identification of people living with serious illness. She has conducted work across serious illness care, including among people living with chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias, cancer, and critical illness. She is experienced in qualitative and mixed methods research, implementation science, population health management, program evaluation, and clinical research. Ernecoff holds a Ph.D. in health policy and management and an M.P.H. in behavioral and community health sciences.
B.S. in neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus; M.P.H. in behavioral and community health science, University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D. in health policy and management, University of North Carolina
Adjunct Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, Division of General Internal Medicine
