Hannah O. James is an associate policy researcher at RAND. Specializing in health services research to improve the value of health care spending in the United States, her research interests include payment policy (both Medicare and employer-sponsored insurance), affordability as a primary determinant of access to care, and health care decision-making. She has worked extensively on state health policy (e.g., health care cost growth benchmarks and other state-based policy reforms) and the Medicare Advantage program, with a focus on measuring value and performance of the program for persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. In her work, James relies primarily on quantitative methods, including applied econometrics, to answer policy-relevant research questions. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., James served in state government as a senior research associate for the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. She received her Ph.D. in health services research with a concentration in health economics from Brown University.
Ph.D. in health services research (health economics), Brown University; M.S. in global health and population, Harvard University; B.S. in human biology, health & society, Cornell University
Investigator, Brown University School of Public Health
