Director, RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness; Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Sarah Hunter is director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, and a professor at the RAND School of Public Policy. Her primary areas of interest are improving services for vulnerable populations; building community capacity for evidence-based program delivery; continuous quality improvement; health care integration; implementation science; and program evaluation. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and RAND publications in a wide range of fields. Her research has been featured in several media outlets including CNN, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and NPR.
Hunter currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment. She also serves on the Veteran and Community Oversight and Engagement Board, a federal advisory panel created to provide recommendations about the development of the West LA VA campus to address veteran homelessness. She has served as core faculty at the Implementation Research Institute at Washington University and on several grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, most recently as a standing study section member for the Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health committee. Prior to joining RAND as a full-time researcher, Hunter was a RAND Project AIR FORCE summer associate for two years. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and received her Ph.D. and M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her B.A. in psychology from New York University.
Ph.D. in social psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in social psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara; B.A. in psychology, New York University
