Heather Krull is the acting associate director of the Personnel, Readiness, and Health Program within RAND's National Security Research Division. A senior economist at RAND, she previously served as the director of the RAND Arroyo Center's Personnel, Training, and Health program.
Her research spans military recruiting, retention, and health policy topics. She has led a number of studies related to the joint Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs disability evaluation system. Other work includes assessments of how traumatic brain injury and mental health are treated in the military health system, options for maintaining clinical proficiency for future deployments among military providers, developing competencies for providers who rehabilitate service members and veterans who have experienced amputation, and examining readiness patterns among those who transfer from the active component to the reserve component. Krull also led an assessment of the current and projected health care needs of patients served by Veterans Affairs, a requirement of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014.
She earned her B.A. in economics and mathematics from St. Norbert College and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Ph.D. in economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A. in economics and mathematics, St. Norbert College
