About RAND Health Care

Who We Are

RAND Health Care is a research division of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Our Mission

RAND Health Care promotes healthier societies by improving health care systems in the United States and other countries. We provide health care decisionmakers, practitioners, and the public with actionable, rigorous, objective evidence to support their most complex decisions.

Our Capabilities

RAND Health Care possesses broad, deep, and longstanding expertise in health policy areas and key methodologies.

Key policy areas include:

• Health insurance costs and coverage
• Health care prices
• The opioid epidemic
• Infectious disease, with a recent focus on the COVID-19 epidemic
• Women’s and children’s health
• Mental health care
• Health care delivery, including the recent surge in telemedicine
• The U.S. caregiving system
• Quality of care: measurement and improvement

Areas of methodological research include quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, such as:

• Microsimulation modeling
• Data collection and analysis
• Policy and program evaluation
• Survey and focus group research
• Conducting and evaluating clinical trials

Our Clients

RAND Health Care helps local, state, and national governments throughout the world identify health system policy challenges, develop and evaluate options to address them, implement needed change, and evaluate their effects. We also conduct research for foundations, nongovernmental organizations, private businesses, professional associations, and community groups. We work collaboratively with clients and research partners to enhance their capabilities and decisionmaking capacity. Support from generous donors allows RAND Health Care to pursue innovative research on issues that reach beyond the boundaries of traditional client funding.

Federal Contract Vehicles

RAND holds a number of contracts that we use to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other U.S. federal government agencies.

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Our Staff

Leadership

Our Experts

Complex health care policy questions must be tackled from multiple perspectives. We draw on the expertise of our interdisciplinary teams, who integrate their diverse skills to focus on critical health care policy issues. Our staff includes more than 200 experts from more than a dozen disciplines. We attract the best in their professions—physicians, economists, psychologists, mathematicians, organizational analysts, political scientists, psychometricians, medical sociologists, policy analysts, and statisticians.

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