Margaret A. Maglione

Margaret Maglione is an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. For many years, she was the associate director of the Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC), one of the leading institutions worldwide for the creation of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other evidence-based products. She currently specializes in Rapid Reviews for immediate use in policy making.

Maglione has led projects funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Defense Center for Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and various specialty societies and charitable foundations.

Her research topics have been diverse, ranging from systematically assessing the effectiveness of interventions for autism spectrum disorders in children and, with a panel of international experts, developing new guidelines, to assessing the safety of vaccines recommended for routine use in the U.S. She has led several systematic reviews on the effectiveness of complementary and integrative health practices such as mindfulness meditation. Her current RAND project involves training homeopaths and their graduate students to assess the internal, external, and model validity of research studies; the results will inform expert panel recommendations for future research on homeopathy.

Maglione received a B.A. in economics from Columbia University and an M.P.P. in public policy from the University of Southern California.