RONALD ANDERSEN, Ph.d.

Co-Investigator, Investigator Development Core

Address
UCLA School Of Public Health
UCLA Pub Hlth-Hlth Serv, Box 951772
61-243 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Phone
(310) 206-1810

Fax
(310) 825-3377

Email
randerse@ucla.edu

Biography
Ronald Andersen is the Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor Emeritus of Health Services, and Professor emeritus of Sociology. He has taught courses in health services organization, research methods, evaluation, and leadership. Dr. Andersen received his Ph.D. in Sociology at Purdue University. He has studied access to medical care for his entire professional career of 45 years. Dr. Andersen developed the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use that has been used extensively nationally and internationally as a framework for utilization and cost studies of general populations as well as special studies of minorities, low income, children, women, the elderly, oral health, the homeless and the HIV-positive population. He has directed three national surveys of access to care and has led numerous evaluations of local and regional populations and programs designed to promote access to medical care. Dr. Andersen's other research interests include international comparisons of health services systems, health professionals' education curriculum, physician health services organization integration, and evaluations of geriatric and primary care delivery. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was on the founding Board of the Association for Health Services Research. He has been Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1994 he received the Association's Leo G. Reeder award for Distinguished Service to Medical Sociology; in 1996 he received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research; and in 1999 he received the Baxter Allegiance Health Services Research Prize. In 2005 he was elected to the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.