Margaret Whitley is an associate policy researcher at RAND. Her work focuses on complementary and integrative healthcare (CIH), especially topics at the intersection of CIH and population health, and questions related to the CIH workforce. Whitley is a core team member of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center, which provides research-focused virtual technical assistance to CIH training institutions. She has led or contributed to RAND projects about working conditions in CIH jobs, health promotion in collaboration with faith-based organizations, management of chronic pain, and many other topics. Whitley uses both quantitative and qualitative methods and often brings an implementation science lens to her work.
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 Ph.D. in public health at the University of California, Irvine, with a dissertation focusing 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
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