Ashley Kranz is a senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She conducts health services research focused on improving access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes of vulnerable populations, including children and adults enrolled in Medicaid. Kranz's work primarily uses quantitative research methods to make causal inferences. She has worked extensively on oral health and access to dental care, including studying policies promoting the delivery of preventive oral health services during medical visits and the delivery of Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) during dental visits. She also studies school-based interventions to promote access to care. She leads an NICHD-funded study to examine the effects of school-based health centers on health care access, health outcomes, and education outcomes in California and Oregon. Kranz has also studied strategies to address the clinical and social needs of individuals dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, documented obesity interventions for American Indian youth, evaluated state policies to reduce neonatal abstinence syndrome, and examined strategies to expand the use of all-payer claims datasets. Kranz received her Ph.D. in health policy and management from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Ph.D. in health policy and management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A. in sociology and political science, University of Michigan
