Wasserman Professor of Health Services
and Professor, Sociology

UCLA School of Public Health
Department of Health Services
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
(310) 206-1810
Fax: (310) 825-3317
E-mail: Randerse@ucla.edu

Ronald Andersen is the Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor of Health Services, and Professor of Sociology. He teaches courses in health services organization, research methods, evaluation, and leadership. Dr. Andersen received his Ph.D. in Sociology at Purdue University. He has studied access to medical care for his entire professional career of 30 years. Dr. Andersen developed the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use that has been used extensively nationally and internationally as a framework for utilization and cost studies of general populations as well as special studies of minorities, low income, children, women, the elderly, oral health, the homeless and the HIV-positive population. He has directed three national surveys of access to care and has led numerous evaluations of local and regional populations and programs designed to promote access to medical care. Dr. Andersen's other research interests include international comparisons of health services systems, graduate medical education curriculum, physician health services organization integration, and evaluations of geriatric and primary care delivery. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was on the founding Board of the Association for Health Services Research. He has been Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1994 he received the Association's Leo G. Reeder award for Distinguished Service to Medical Sociology; in 1996 he received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research; and in 1999 he received the Baxter Allegiance Health Services Research Prize.

Selected Publications

Claire Kohrman, Ronald Andersen and Mary Margaret Clemens
1994 -- Training Physicians: The Case of Internal Medicine: San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Ronald Andersen
1995-- "Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

Ronald Andersen, Nancy Harada, Vicki Chiu and Takashi Makinodan
1995--"Application of the Behavioral Model to Health Studies of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans," Asian and Pacific Islander Journal of Health, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 129- 141.

Ronald Andersen, Thomas Rice, Gerald Kominski (eds.)
1996 — Changing the U.S. Health Care System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Lillian Gelberg, Teresa Gallagher, Ronald Andersen, Paul Koegel
1997-- "Competing Priorities as a Barrier to Medical Care Among Homeless Adults in Los Angeles." American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 217-220.

Ronald Andersen and Pamela Davidson (eds.)
1997 — "Ethnicity, Aging and Oral Health Outcomes: Findings from the ICS-II USA Research Locations," Advances in Dental Research, 11:2, pp. 199-303.

M. Chen, Ronald Andersen, D.E. Barnes, M-H Leclercq, C.S. Lyttle
1997 — "Comparing Oral Health Care Systems." Geneva: World Health Organization.

Howard Zuckerman, Diana Hilberman, Ronald Andersen, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton Burns
1997 — "Physician-Organization Arrangements: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven." Frontiers of Health Services Management. 14:3, Spring, pp. 3-34.

Lillian Gelberg, Ronald Andersen and Barbara Leake
2000 — "Applying the Behavioral Model to Vulnerable Populations."
Health Services Research , to be published in February of 2000.

Ronald Andersen, Sam Bozzette, Martin Shapiro et al.
2000 -- "Access of Vulnerable Groups to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Persons in Care for -- HIV Disease in the U.S." Health Services Research, to be published in April of 2000.