Jaimie Shaff is a policy researcher at RAND. Shaff's research priorities include health equity, community-developed practices, suicide prevention, traumatic stress, access to high quality care, public- and behavioral-health workforce shortages, unmet needs, translational research, and racial trauma. In addition to her research, Shaff provides training and consultation to advance community-centered public health leadership. Shaff's approach includes mixed and participatory methods, cross-sector collaboration, and human-centered design. Prior to joining RAND, Shaff worked extensively to advance health equity by leading projects such as a participatory action research study on multiracial/ethnic mental health and a built environment intervention for domestic violence shelters. Shaff also spent almost a decade responding to global health emergencies and humanitarian disasters worldwide. Shaff holds a Dr.Ph. from Johns Hopkins, an M.P.H. from Harvard, and an M.P.A. from New York University.
Dr.Ph. in health equity and social justice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; M.P.H. in epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; M.P.A. in international public/non-profit management & policy analysis, New York University Wagner School of Public Service
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