David Grant is a senior social/behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has more than 20 years of experience following the award of his doctorate in sociology from UCLA. Grant has extensive survey research experience, including the development and maintenance of online survey panels, survey sampling, and sources of survey bias. Grant directs the RAND American Life Panel, a nationally representative online panel survey of about 5,000 adults, codirects (with Julia Kaufman) the American Teacher and School Leader Panels, and codirects (with Heather Schwartz) the American School District Panel. Together, these panels include more than 30,000 K–12 public school educators.
Prior to joining RAND in 2016, Grant was director of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest state health survey, at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. He has broad expertise in population health surveillance, complex survey project management, research design, questionnaire development, survey methodology, and dissemination, including innovative web-based tools to democratize access to data.
PhD in sociology, UC Los Angeles
