Journal Article
Documenting the Modeling Process with a Standardized Data Structure Described and Implemented in DynamicVu
This article proposes a data structure and its methods for documenting the process of building a simulation model.
Dec 1, 2022
Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel
Policy Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis , Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Education
Ph.D. in health services research & policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; M.P.H., University of Utah; M.H.A., University of Utah; B.A. in human biology, Stanford University
Overview
Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel is a policy researcher at RAND and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is a health services researcher specializing in developing and applying mixed methods approaches, including ones involving system dynamics modeling and simulation to explore issues of complexity and impacts across sectors of the health system. She is an expert in capturing interdependencies among factors from qualitative data, developing simulation models, and using infographics and visualizations to communicate understanding. She also has experience in formative qualitative research including designing and carrying out interview data collection and thematic analysis. Her recent work revealed the importance of feedback processes and causal relationships among program facilitators and barriers.
Her current/recent work includes the areas of NICU quality improvement, strategic health workforce modeling, out of hospital cardiac arrest, integration of behavioral health into primary care, and primary care innovation. She studies service delivery, implementation and outcomes, as well as the influence of context and resulting variation. She has disseminated findings and recommendations via client reports, peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations and public webinars.
Tomoaia-Cotisel has successfully led/co-led multi-disciplinary and organizationally-embedded research teams and teams across organizations to successfully execute projects, synthesize findings, and disseminate lessons learned in contract and grant work.
She has also undertaken projects with the World Health Organization in disseminating methods for health systems research and results of comparative national primary care studies, as well as in conducting an evaluation of public private partnerships.
Tomoaia-Cotisel received her Ph.D. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Research Focus
Selected Publications
Tomoaia‐Cotisel, A., Allen, S.D., Kim, H., Andersen, D. and Chalabi, Z.,, "Rigorously interpreted quotation analysis for evaluating causal loop diagrams in late‐stage conceptualization," System Dynamics Review, 38(1), 2022
Farr, W.W., Allen, S.D., Tomoaia‐Cotisel, A. and Hovmand, P.S., "Documenting the modeling process with a standardized data structure described and implemented in DynamicVu," System Dynamics Review, 38(3), 2002
Tomoaia-Cotisel, Andrada, Nicole K. Eberhart, Charles C. Engel, Peter Mendel, Gabriela Alvarado, Nabeel Qureshi, and Samuel D. Allen, A Process Evaluation of Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in the Military Health System, RAND Corporation (RR-A677-1), 2021
Mendel, Peter, Courtney A. Gidengil, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel, Sean Mann, Adam J. Rose, Kristin J. Leuschner, Nabeel Qureshi, Vishnupriya Kareddy, Jessica L. Sousa, and Daniel Kim, Investing in the Future of Health Care: A Strategic Assessment of Federally Funded Health Services Research and Primary Care Research, RAND Corporation (RB-A623-1), 2020
Sedlock EW, Ottosen M, Nether K, Sittig DF, Etchegaray JM, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel A, Francis N, Yager L, Schafer L, Wilkinson R, Khan A, Arnold C, Davidson A, and Thomas EJ., "Creating a comprehensive, unit-based approach to detecting and preventing harm in the neonatal intensive care unit," Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, 2018
Tomoaia-Cotisel, A, Kim, H, Allen S, Blanchet, K. "Causal Loop Diagrams," in Don de Savigny, Karl Blanchet, and Taghreed Adam (Eds.), Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research: A Methodological Handbook, Open University Press (forthcoming)
Tomoaia-Cotisel A*, Scammon DL*, Day J, Day R, Kim J, Waitzman N, Farrell TW, and Magill MK., "Connecting the Dots and Merging Meaning: Using Mixed Methods to Study Primary Care Delivery Transformation," Health Services Research, 48(6 Pt2), 2013
Tomoaia-Cotisel A, Scammon DL, Waitzman N, Cronholm P, Halladay J, Driscoll D, Solberg L, Hsu C, Tai-Seale M, Hiratsuka V, Shih S, Fetters M, Wise C, Alexander J, Hauser D, McMullen C, Scholle S, Tirodkar M, Schmidt L, Donahue K, Parchman M, and Stange, "Context Matters: The Experience of 14 Research Teams in Systematically Reporting Contextual Factors Important for Practice Change," Annals of Family Medicine, 11, 2013
