Kandice Kapinos is Senior Economist at  RAND and a Professor at the RAND School of Public Policy. Dr. Kapinos has 19 years of experience in health economics and policy research specializing in access to health care and disparities in the U.S. She has served as Principal Investigator/Project Director for 15 grants and contracts. She has contributed as Co-Investigator on more than 2 dozen other studies. 

Dr. Kapinos combines applied microeconomics and epidemiologic models with advanced econometrics and causal inference tools to understand how social, environmental, and structural factors influence health behaviors and access to health care. As a research methodologist, studied a range of diseases, healthcare settings, and populations; her areas of particular interest center around improving outcomes for vulnerable populations.

Dr. Kapinos previously worked at the University of Michigan, the U.S. Census Bureau, Abt Associates, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, a VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence and the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. and a M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a M.S. from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and her B.S. from the University of Texas at Dallas.