Cathy Sherbourne

Dr. Sherbourne, Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND, is a medical sociologist and health services researcher specializing in health outcome measurement for both adults and children with a focus on mental health issues. Dr. Sherbourne received her Ph.D. in Public Health from UCLA in 1986.

Dr. Sherbourne has been the primary sociologist working on health status measurement, satisfaction, and the analyses of life stress, social and role functioning, social support, and mental health status for several of RAND's large-scale health policy evaluations, including the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), the AHRQ-funded Depression PORT, Healthcare for Communities (HCC) and the HIV Costs and Service Utilization Study (HCSUS). She has had extensive experience in the development of self-report health and satisfaction measures for children and adults and participated in the main analyses of general health outcomes for the HIE, MOS, PORT, HCC and numerous other studies. Dr. Sherbourne was one of the developers of the 20 and 36-item short form health surveys (SF-20 and SF-36), which were constructed for use in surveying general health in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and in general population surveys.

Currently, Dr. Sherbourne is PI of an NIMH-funded project on gender differences in quality of care and outcomes for depression; Co-PI of a collaborative project testing the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of improving care for panic disorder; Co-PI of the NIMH-funded follow-up to the AHRQ Depression PORT, which is an effectiveness study of improving care for depression in prepaid primary care practices; and Co-PI of an NIMH collaborative project on quality improvement for depression.

Graduate Student Researchers Faculty Partners Ricky Bluthenthal Kathy Daly Carol Eisen Maga Jackson-Triche Lisa Jaycox Loretta Jones Paul Koegel Isabel Lagomasino David Martin Peter Mendel Lisa Meredith Michael Ong Gery Ryan Michael Schoenbaum Cathy Sherbourne Brad Stein Roland Sturm Belinda Tucker Jurgen Unutzer Kate Watkins Marleen Wong Post-Doctoral Fellows Staff
	Cathy Donald Sherbourne, Ph.D. Dr. Sherbourne, Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND, is a medical sociologist and health services researcher specializing in health outcome measurement for both adults and children with a focus on mental health issues. Dr. Sherbourne received her Ph.D. in Public Health from UCLA in 1986. Dr. Sherbourne has been the primary sociologist working on health status measurement, satisfaction, and the analyses of life stress, social and role functioning, social support, and mental health status for several of RAND's large-scale health policy evaluations, including the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), the AHRQ-funded Depression PORT, Healthcare for Communities (HCC) and the HIV Costs and Service Utilization Study (HCSUS). She has had extensive experience in the development of self-report health and satisfaction measures for children and adults and participated in the main analyses of general health outcomes for the HIE, MOS, PORT, HCC and numerous other studies. Dr. Sherbourne was one of the developers of the 20 and 36-item short form health surveys (SF-20 and SF-36), which were constructed for use in surveying general health in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and in general population surveys. Currently, Dr. Sherbourne is PI of an NIMH-funded project on gender differences in quality of care and outcomes for depression; Co-PI of a collaborative project testing the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of improving care for panic disorder; Co-PI of the NIMH-funded follow-up to the AHRQ Depression PORT, which is an effectiveness study of improving care for depression in prepaid primary care practices; and Co-PI of an NIMH collaborative project on quality improvement for depression.				Contact Info Publications