Director, Population Health Program; Senior Policy Researcher
Julia Rollison is director of the Population Health Program and a senior policy researcher at RAND. Her research focuses on pressing public health issues as well as health care access and quality, with emphasis on reproductive health, health workforce, and rural health policy. At RAND, she leads research and program evaluation studies as well as landscape and evidence reviews on a variety of health-related topics for foundation and government funders. Current projects include evaluating the impact of state-funded family planning programs, assessing a Social Determinants of Health screening in emergency department settings and connections to community-based resources, and examining factors impacting rural hospital closures. Recently completed work at RAND includes a longitudinal evaluation of a clinician training program; an evaluation of a Public Health Center of Excellence, and a mixed-methods study of contraceptive choice and access among men and women veterans.
Throughout her career, Rollison has overseen the administration of tens of thousands of web-based surveys and conducted over 40 group interviews and focus groups, as well as over 500 individual interviews with a range of stakeholder types, such as medical providers, researchers, youth, service members and veterans, and government officials. She has worked on or led contracts for a range of government agencies, including AHRQ, CDC, CMS, DoD, DOT, NIH, NSF, OASH, SAMHSA, and VA, as well as foundations and local organizations (e.g., school districts, health departments). She received her Ph.D. in research, measurement, and evaluation from Boston College.
Ph.D. in research, measurement and evaluation, Boston College; M.P.H. in global health, The George Washington University; B.S. in applied psychology, Ithaca College
