Senior Policy Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Andrea Richardson is a senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research interests include the underlying mechanisms between environment (built and social), behaviors, biology (genetics), and health disparities. She has developed a broad knowledge base in population-based and clinical research. She is particularly motivated to address school policies, neighborhood disinvestment, social injustice and racial inequity that impact health for people who have been systematically excluded from decisionmaking about their community. Richardson has strong statistical skills and publication history in peer-reviewed journals. Her expertise includes complex longitudinal and structural equation modeling to link environmental determinants to obesity disparities in populations who have been burdened with socioeconomic disadvantage. Richardson received her B.S. in math from the University of Chicago; her M.P.H. in epidemiology from Emory University; and her Ph.D. in nutrition epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ph.D. in nutrition epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.P.H. in epidemiology, Emory University; B.S. in math, University of Chicago
