Kandice Kapinos is a health and labor economist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Kapinos has 17 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 Direcort for 13 grants and contracts totalling more than $5 million in independent funding. 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, she has 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.