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Claire E. O'Hanlon

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office

Education

M.P.P., University of Chicago; B.S. in engineering, Harvey Mudd College

Overview

Claire E. O'Hanlon is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her current work focuses on value and quality in health care, end-of-life and advance care planning, and evidence-based medicine. Her dissertation is on the effects of health care industry consolidation in the United States. O'Hanlon also currently serves as the On-the-Job Training Broker for Pardee RAND Graduate School and RAND Health. She was a graduate intern in health economics at Amgen during summer 2016.

O'Hanlon was previously a research assistant at University of Chicago Medicine, where she worked on validating prognostic models. During this time, she was a business development intern at Knopp Biosciences, a biotechnology start-up, where she developed a pharmacoeconomic model of Parkinson's disease. Prior to her career in health policy and outcomes research, she was a laboratory technician at Duquesne University, where she designed drug delivery agents.

O'Hanlon holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School, a certificate in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

Research Focus

Selected Publications

Chari R, O'Hanlon C, Chen P, Leuschner K, Nelson C, "Governing complex academic medical center systems: evaluating and choosing among alternative models," Academic Medicine (forthcoming)

O'Hanlon C, Huang C, Sloss E, Anhang Price R, Hussey P, Farmer C, Gidengil C, "Comparing VA and non-VA quality of care: a systematic review," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2016

O'Hanlon CE, Newberry SJ, Booth M, Grant S, Motala A, Maglione MA, FitzGerald JD, Shekelle PG, "Hyaluronic acid injection therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: concordant efficacy and conflicting serious adverse events in two systematic reviews," Systematic Reviews, 2016

Linnemayr SG, O'Hanlon CE, Uscher-Pines L, Van Abel K, Nelson C, "Using insights from behavioral economics to strengthen disaster preparedness and response," Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2016

Maglione M, Kadiyala S, Kress A, Hastings J, O'Hanlon C, TRICARE Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Benefit: Comparison with Medicaid and Commercial Benefits, RAND Corporation (RR-1334-OSD), 2015

O'Hanlon CE, Amede KG, O'Hear MR, Janjic JM, "NIR-Labeled Perfluoropolyether Nanoemulsions for Drug Delivery and Imaging," Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 137:27-33, 2012

Honors & Awards

  • James Q. Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, Pardee RAND Graduate School

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