Lia Pak (she/her) is an adjunct research assistant at RAND. Her research interests are primarily in the fields of public health and health services, and include social determinants of health, public trust, and evidence-based interventions. She is trained in qualitative and quantitative methods, including survey design and implementation, topic modeling, and semi-structured interviewing. Her research projects have covered topics including collaborative care for co-occurring opioid use disorder and mental illness, behavioral health care delivery for service members and veterans, social media for public health trust building, and vaccine access.
Prior to joining RAND, Pak was a CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholar, through which she received health equity training and worked on health policy and rural health care in South Dakota. Pak received a B.A. in biology and political science from Macalester College and is currently a Ph.D. student in health policy at Harvard University.
B.A. in biology, Macalester College; B.A. in political science, Macalester College
Ph.D. Health Policy Student, Harvard University
