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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 113-118
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Previously he served as the senior health economist on the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, focusing on Medicare reform, the uninsured, and other national health care issues.
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A particular research interest is child support policy; he has written academic papers and consulted with numerous state governments on the development of their child support guidelines and served as a member of the Washington State Commission on the Review of Child Support Guidelines. In 2004, he was named a national associate of the National Research Council for outstanding contributions to its work, including service on the panel that produced the 1995 report, Measuring Poverty: A New Approach, and the planning group that organized the workshop described in the 2005 report, Experimental Poverty Measures: Summary of a Workshop.
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Keeler is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and senior mathematician at RAND. In the pathbreaking RAND Health Insurance Experiment, he investigated the theoretical and empirical effects of alternative health insurance plans on episodes of treatment and on health outcomes.
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Previously, she was a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine, directing various committees that assessed the health, economic, and community consequences of uninsurance and that made recommendations to federal agencies for incorporating cost-effectiveness information in analyses of regulations addressing human health and safety risks. Her research interests include the uses of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care, the ethical dimensions of resource allocation decisions to improve population health, and policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health.
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Bureau of the Census, and at the National Academies. Her professional interests and experience have focused on the conduct and analysis of national health care surveys, analysis and public policy formulation relating to population research, family planning, aging, long-term care, disability, and a wide range of health policy issues.
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She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Bombay, India, and completed 2 years of postdoctoral studies in sociology and demography at the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago.
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