Rachel Sragovicz

Rachel Sragovicz is an M.Phil. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. Her research focuses on evaluating the impact of prescription drug policy and regulation, drug shortages, and substance use interventions. She conducts quantitative and mixed-methods research, including analyzing large-scale public and proprietary drug pricing datasets, such as National Average Drug Acquisition Cost data. 

Prior to joining RAND, Sragovicz was an intern at Itach Ma’aki, an Israeli NGO where she analyzed ethnonationalist biases in data reporting on gender-based violence and conducted a needs assessment for gender advisors in local Arab authorities. As an intern at the U.S. Department of State’s Strategic Religious Engagement Unit, she conducted a religious landscape analysis of Honduras and interviewed global religious leaders in the Sahel. Her senior thesis investigated the sociopolitical implications of neoliberal social welfare policies and the evolution of Israeli marital property law. She recently facilitated a panel on “Innovations in Ritual” at a Yale conference on Gender and Judaism. Sragovicz holds a B.A. in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale University.