Rouslan I. Karimov

Rouslan Karimov is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. Prior to RAND, he spent more than ten years as a statistics and monitoring specialist at UNICEF. He has experience with data collection and analysis of immunization, life-saving commodities and water and sanitation indicators. His projects at RAND run the gamut from global health monitoring and evaluation to working with social media data, lexical analysis of textual information, economic analysis of logistics and procurement, and socioeconomic determinants of health.

Karimov holds an AB in Economics from Vassar College and an MPA, with a focus on economics, from Princeton University. His research interests include international public health and economic development, universal basic income, culture as a predictor of social outcomes, computer-aided decision-making, and the development and politics in the post-Soviet space. He is a native Russian speaker.