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Paul Koegel, Ph.D.
Dr. Koegel is an Associate Director of RAND Health. A nationally-recognized leader in the field, his research focuses on mental health, substance abuse, poverty and homelessness. Dr. Koegel received his Doctorate in Anthropology from UCLA.
Dr. Koegel directed a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study of homelessness in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles that documented the demographic, social support, and life-style characteristics of the inner-city homeless, and determined the prevalence of mental illness among this population. The study has been called one of the most methodologically sound of NIMH's first-generation studies of homelessness. A secondary analysis of these data, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), explored the epidemiology of alcoholism among this population. Dr. Koegel also was principal investigator of a longitudinal ethnographic study of the adaptation of homeless mentally ill adults in Los Angeles' Skid Row. With Audrey Burnam, Dr. Koegel directed the NIMH-funded Course of Homelessness Study, a large prospective examination of exits into and out of homelessness among mentally ill and non-mentally ill homeless adults. He was also principal investigator (with Greer Sullivan) of the NIMH-funded Public Sector Costs of the Homeless Mentally Ill Study, which examined service use patterns and costs among homeless and domiciled seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons in Houston, Texas. With funding from NIAAA, he subsequently examined the public sector costs of homeless substance abusers; and was co-principal investigator of the NIMH-funded Improving HIV Treatment for the Mentally Ill, an examination of access to, and costs and quality of, HIV care for HIV-positive SMI adults. More recently, Dr. Koegel has focused on issues related to depression care. He is currently evaluating the Witness for Wellness initiative, a unique partnership between academic and community-based organizations to improve depression care in minority communities. |
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