David Kennedy
Senior Social Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kennedy is a Senior Social Behavioral Scientist with 11+ years leading mixed-methods health and policy research, currently co-directing RAND’s Center for Qualitative & Mixed-Methods. He combines rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods to design large-scale studies, manage multi-disciplinary teams, and deliver behavior-change interventions informed by user-centered data visualization and UX insights. A prolific author with 100+ publications and 3,000+ citations, he has secured numerous federal and foundation awards and translated research into award-winning open-source data collection software used across dozens of funded projects. Trained as a cultural anthropologist with postdoctoral work in public and adolescent health, he marries deep ethnographic sensibility with experimental and technological innovation. Known for improving systems and mentoring colleagues, he uniquely bridges academic rigor, practical implementation, and product-focused scientific software development.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Anthropology, PhD, Anthropology at University of FloridaBachelor's degree, Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Anthropology at University of Notre DamePostdoctoral Scholar, International Health, Public Health, Postdoctoral Scholar, International Health, Public Health at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
modification10
sna7
social-network-analysis6
network-visualization6
network-analysis5
graph-theory4
complex-networks3
java2
javascript2
network2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qualintitative/egoweb.github.com
Apr 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 years 7 months
javajavascriptupdate
qualintitative/EgoWeb-Project-Data
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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