About RAND Health Quarterly
“Objective analysis. Effective solutions.” This tagline aptly describes the RAND Corporation's core approach as a nonprofit institution that strives to improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. Approximately 1,600 professionals from more than 50 countries work at RAND, representing diversity in work experience; academic training; and political and ideological outlook; as well as race, gender, and ethnicity. Hailing from academia, government, and industry, RAND researchers combine theory with practical, real-world experience. Our research is supported by a global clientele that includes government agencies, foundations, other nonprofit organizations, private-sector firms, and philanthropists.
RAND Health Care is one of the largest private health care research groups in the world, with more than 200 projects under way at any given time, addressing a wide range of health care policy issues. However, research on health care at RAND is not performed solely in RAND Health Care. Research units as diverse as the RAND National Security Research Division and RAND Social and Economic Well-being conduct health-related and health-relevant work. Multi-unit research centers—such as the Drug Policy Research Center—routinely perform health-related research that crosses RAND's divisions. The researchers pursuing this work include physicians, economists, psychologists, organizational analysts, operations researchers, political scientists, engineers, psychometricians, medical sociologists, policy analysts, and statisticians.
Prior to the publication of RAND Health Quarterly, scholars lacked ready access to the breadth and depth of RAND's health-related scholarship and policy analyses. RAND studies in peer-reviewed journals are indexed by the National Library of Medicine's PubMed/MEDLINE service, but many of RAND's top technical reports, our monographs, and our highly readable policy summaries were not available to the research community in a single publication. RAND Health Quarterly brings all of this high-quality work together and provides links to our researchers' other publications in an easily navigable and highly readable format.
Nearly every project that RAND undertakes is a team effort, and this project is no exception. The journal is the product of an extensive collaboration involving our researchers and the Office of External Affairs. Our president and chief executive officer, Michael Rich, and every unit head at RAND are deeply appreciative of their efforts.
