Paul Koegel is associate director of RAND Health Care at RAND. He contributes to the management of its $60-million research portfolio. Koegel's 35+-year research career as a medical and urban anthropologist has focused on the effects of health care systems on the adaptation of vulnerable populations—for example, homeless individuals, adults with mental illness, and substance abusers—to urban settings. Over the last ten years, he has been integrally involved in community-partnered initiatives that embrace a partnership model in which community partners have equal power and resources. These projects included a randomized clinical trial of the added value of community engagement in implementing quality improvement strategies for treating depression; an exploratory study of how an underserved community values different strategies for asthma intervention among children and adolescents; and a randomized clinical trial of the contribution of training/partnered reflection on the processes and outcomes of community-partnered research. Koegel received a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from UCLA.
Ph.D. in anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
