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Terri  Tanielian

Terri Tanielian BA, MA

Behavioral Health, Research and Clinical Research
Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

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Terri Tanielian is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. She also currently serves as the RAND Health liaison to the Department of Veterans Affairs and is a nationally recognized expert in military and veteran’s health policy. Her research interests include access to and quality of care for service-connected health problems; military suicide; military sexual assault; military families; veteran caregivers; and psychological and behavioral effects of combat, terrorism, and disasters. She employs both quantitative and qualitative research methods and analyses in her work, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and analysis of administrative data; as well as environmental scans of existing policies, programs and services.

s the former director of the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, she spent a decade overseeing RAND's diverse military health research portfolio. She was the co–study director for a large, non-governmental assessment of the psychological, emotional, and cognitive consequences of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan entitled Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery. She was also the co-director for RAND's study Hidden Heroes: America's Military Caregivers, the first representative study of military caregiving in the United States.
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