Rick Garvey (he/him), is a senior survey coordinator at RAND. With over 25 years of data collection experience, Garvey has been involved in planning and coordinating both small- and large-scale data collection projects in areas of HIV and hepatitis, homelessness, veterans’ health, criminal justice, adolescent drug use, drug treatment, welfare reform, and surviving trauma. His expertise lies in design and implementation of complex field data collection efforts.
Since joining RAND in 2000, Garvey has worked closely with homeless, mental health, criminal justice, and social service agencies to establish cooperation and negotiate data collection in underserved areas, jails, shelters, and homeless encampments. He has managed data collection for dozens of projects with diverse and difficult to reach populations throughout Los Angeles County and the State of California. Currently, he is managing the UNITY project, a longitudinal study of unhoused Transitional Aged Youth in Los Angeles county with eleven follow-up waves of data collection; two projects working with patients suffering from Opioid Use Disorder; and the LA LEADS project conducting surveys and enumeration of encampments in Skid-Row, Hollywood, and Venice.
B.A. in sociology, University of Puget Sound; M.A. in sociology, California State University-Los Angeles
