Margaret Whitley (she/her) is an associate policy researcher at RAND. Her work is centered on health equity within topical areas like occupational health, complementary and integrative health (CIH), and maternal and child health. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. Whitley has addressed a variety of topics within her work at RAND, including the role of CIH providers within the public health workforce, occupational and socioeconomic drivers of health behaviors, mobile health promotion interventions, and management of chronic pain.
Previously, Whitley was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, where she studied the contribution of working conditions to population health inequities. Prior to that, she completed a doctoral degree in public health at the University of California, Irvine; her dissertation focused on the occupational determinants of breastfeeding behaviors. She also completed an M.P.H. in community health at UCLA, and a B.A. in social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. in public health, University of California, Irvine; M.P.H. in community health sciences, UCLA; B.A. in social welfare, University of California, Berkeley
