Stacey Yi

Stacey Yi (she/her) is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate in the Community-Partnered Policy and Action stream at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has an M.P.H. in health management from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University and a B.A. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Rice University.

Prior to joining Pardee RAND, she was a health policy consultant at Bailit Health, where she helped design and implement a population health management strategy, an alternative payment model, and a state cost growth benchmark strategy. She was previously a health policy fellow in the office of Rep. Raul Ruiz of California and regional program director for Camp Kesem, a nonprofit organization that supports children affected by a parent's cancer. Her research interests include behavioral health care access and quality, Asian American mental health, health equity, and child, family, and community wellness.