Innovations in Veteran Suicide Prevention: A Discussion with Policy Experts
The RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute hosted a webinar to discuss innovations in veteran suicide prevention.
Ben Senator
Ph.D. Candidate, RAND School of Public Policy, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Expertise
Ben Senator is a Ph.D. candidate at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and formerly a research assistant at RAND Europe. His research interests lie in the public health, social, and criminal justice impacts of regulatory approaches to legal and illicit substances. Senator has supported multiple projects with the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, with his current work concerning de jure non-medical cannabis policy developments, the effectiveness of policy responses to the U.S. opioid epidemic, alternative policy options to psychedelic drug prohibition, and the Dutch cannabis supply chain pilot. He also maintains a focus on broader social policy research, with current work researching veterans' housing and crisis support.
Senator is proficient in both qualitative and quantitative analysis, with interests in applications of causal inference in drug policy research. He has supported a number of quantitative analyses, including estimating the impacts of supply-side policy changes to the Dutch nonmedical cannabis market, the effectiveness of education-based randomized controlled trials, gender differences in financial decisionmaking, prevalence estimates of psychedelic drug use, and societal costs of hate crime. He has additionally supported systematic literature reviews and qualitative research projects that utilize stakeholder interviews and ethnographic methods.
Prior to joining RAND, Senator worked as a research assistant with University College London whilst studying for his M.Sc. in social policy and social research. He holds a B.A. in geography from the University of Birmingham.
Education
M.Sc. in social policy and research, University College London; B.A. in geography, University of Birmingham
Selected Work
- Ben Senator, Mafalda Pardal, Liesbeth Vandam, "Evidence synthesis of medical cannabis research: current challenges and opportunities," European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2024
- Kilmer, Beau, Michelle Priest, Rajeev Ramchand, Rhianna C. Rogers, Ben Senator, and Keytin Palmer, Considering Alternatives to Psychedelic Drug Prohibition, RAND Corporation (RR-A2825-1), 2024
- Pardal, Mafalda, Beau Kilmer, Sara d'Auria, Tamara Strabel, Silvia Galimberti, Stijn Hoorens, Tom Decorte, and Ben Senator, Alternatives to profit-maximising commercial models of cannabis supply for non-medical use, RAND Corporation (RR-A2190-1), 2023
- Mennes, Ralph, Stijn Hoorens, Margriet van Laar, Karin Monshouwer, Rosa Andree, Pieter Oomen, Mafalda Pardal, Emma Leenders, Irene Schoonbeek, Erwin van der Lee, Sander Rigter, and Ben Senator, Onderzoek Experiment gesloten coffeeshopketen: Rapportage nulmeting 2022: Study in support of the Controlled Cannabis Supply Chain Experiment: Baseline report 2022, RAND Corporation (RR-A2735-2), 2024
- Parkinson, Sarah, Jessica Dawney, Avery Adams, and Ben Senator, Data collection and sharing for pathogen surveillance: Making sense of a fragmented global system, RAND Corporation (RR-A2788-1), 2023
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