Considering the Consequences of Changing Cannabis Policy in Indiana
This report presents educational information and insights for those who are evaluating Indiana's cannabis policies or considering potential alternatives.
Wendy Hawkins (she/her) is a policy analyst at RAND. Her research and policy interests include behavioral health, overdose bereavement, harm reduction, reproductive justice, health equity, and SDOH, with a focus on food insecurity. Hawkins prioritizes community engagement and centering voices of people with lived experience. At RAND, she contributes to project management, qualitative data collection and analysis, and conducting program evaluations. She has contributed to projects focused on 988/911 interoperability, peer support specialists, food insecurity, psychiatric bed shortages, clinical training programs for underserved populations, and statewide evaluations of various behavioral health programs.
Prior to joining RAND, Hawkins' work focused on primary care integration, and she conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis, led cross-regional collaborations, and provided strategy and policy recommendations in Michigan. Additionally, she has worked in HIV research focusing on breaking down barriers to care for LGBTQ+ Black and Latino youth in Los Angeles County and worked in harm reduction services, providing wrap-around care for people who use drugs in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Hawkins graduated with her Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a focus on social policy.
Education
B.A. in environmental science & policy, Michigan State University; M.P.P. in social policy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Selected Work
- Holliday, Stephanie Brooks, Samantha Matthews, Wendy Hawkins, Jonathan H. Cantor, and Ryan K. McBain, Lessons on 988 and 911 Interoperability: Case Studies on Implementation, RAND Corporation (RB-A3112-1), 2024
- Breslau, Joshua, Graham DiGuiseppi, Wendy Hawkins, Shona Olalere Oluwatola, Alison Athey, and Nicole K. Eberhart, Early Implementation of California's Peer Support Specialist Certification Program: Perspectives of Clinical Administrators, Peer Support Specialists, and Service Users, RAND Corporation (RR-A3119-1), 2024
- Palimaru, Alina I., Andrea S. Richardson, Leah Dion, and Wendy Hawkins, Defining and Mapping Social Vulnerability as a Proxy for Food Insecurity in Los Angeles County, RAND Corporation (RR-A1983-3), 2023
- Levin, Jonathan S., Priya Gandhi, Wendy Hawkins, Samantha Matthews, Jonathan H. Cantor, Ryan K. McBain, and Nicole K. Eberhart, Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Bed Capacity, Need, and Shortage Estimates in Santa Clara County, California, RAND Corporation (RR-A1824-4), 2023
- Jaque King, MPP; Wendy Hawkins, MPP; and Nancy Baum, PhD, MHS, Increasing access to integrated models of primary and behavioral health care in rural and urban areas of Michigan: The role of primary care practices and providers, Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT), 2022
- Kipke, M. D., Kubicek, K., Akinyemi, I. C., Hawkins, W., Belzer, M., Bhandari, S., & Bray, B., "The Healthy Young Men's Cohort: Health, Stress, and Risk Profile of Black and Latino Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM).," Journal of Urban Health, 97(5), 2020
- Kipke, M. D., Kubicek, K., Wong, C. F., Robinson, Y. A., Akinyemi, I. C., Beyer, W. J., Hawkins, W., Rice, C. E., Layland, E., Bray, B. C., & Belzer, M, "A Focus on the HIV Care Continuum Through the Healthy Young Men's Cohort Study: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study. JMIR research protocols," JMIR research protocols, 8(1), 2019
Authored by Wendy Hawkins
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