CURRICULUM VITAE:
RONALD LUTHER WILLIAMS
CURRENT POSITION
Research Economist
Institute For Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
(Economics)
B.A.
(Physics)
A.A.
(Engineering)
Diploma
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1976 Research Economist
Institute For Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research
1975 - 1976 Lecturer
Department of Economics
1972 - 1974 Associate Specialist
Community and Organization Research Institute
1969 - 1971 Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Economics
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
1988 - 1994 Consultant, Connecticut Department of Health
1987 - 1994 Consultant, Rhode Island Department of Health
1985 - 1994 Consultant, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
1984 - 1986 Consultant, Southern California Kaiser Permanente
1983 - 1985 Consultant, Michigan Department of Public Health
1980 - 1987 Consultant, Los Angeles County Department of Health
1980
-1982 Consultant,
1980 - 1981 Consultant, Appalachian Regional Commission
1977 - 1978 Consultant, SysteMetrics, Inc.
1976 - 1980 Consultant, California Department of Health Services
1962
- 1969 Senior Scientist, EG
& G Inc.,
1961
- 1962 Staff Physicist, Bendix
Corporation,
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Graduate Summer Session of Statistics
HONORS
NSF Graduate Fellowship
Arrow Society
Regents Scholarship
Phi Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
Williams RL, Crouch RL: The adjustment speed of neoclassical growth models. Journal of Economic Theory 4: 552556, 1972.
Williams RL: Explaining a health care paradox. Policy Sciences 6: 91101, 1975.
Williams
RL: Intrauterine growth curves: Intra and international comparisons with
different ethnic groups in
Williams RL: Measuring the effectiveness of perinatal medical care. Medical Care 17: 95110, 1975.
Petitti
D, Olson RO, Williams RL: Cesarean section in
Williams RL, Hawes WE: Cesarean section, fetal monitoring, and perinatal mortality. American Journal of Public Health 69: 864870, 1979.
Williams
RL, Cunningham GC, Norris FD, Tashiro M: Monitoring perinatal mortality rates:
Williams
RL: Partitioning declines in perinatal mortality rates in
Williams
RL:
Williams RL: Large Scale
Perinatal Data Systems Using Vital Statistics. In: Proceedings of the First National Conferences on Perinatal Data
Systems, pp. 95145.
Phibbs CS, Williams RL, Phibbs RH: Newborn risk factors and costs of neonatal intensive care. Pediatrics 68: 313321, 1981.
Williams RL, Cunningham GC,
Hawes WE, Norris FD, Tashiro M: Fetal growth and perinatal viability in
Williams RL: Large Scale
Perinatal Data Systems Using Vital Statistics. In: Harris, TR (ed.): Use of Computers in Perinatal Medicine.
Williams RL, Marinko JA, Chen
PM: An Automated Vital Statistics System.
In: Harris, TR (ed): The Use of Computers in Perinatal Medicine.
Williams RL: Identifying the sources of the recent
decline in perinatal mortality rates in
Williams RL: Evaluating the effectiveness of
perinatal regionalization in
Williams RL, Marinko JM, Chen PM: Correcting the serious shortcomings of the nation's vital statistics system through a lowcost, microbased ANS MUMPS system. MUG Quarterly 11: 3840, 1982
Williams RL, Chen PM: Decline in perinatal
mortality. (Letter)
Williams RL, Marinko JM: Toward a national vital statistics system. MUG Quarterly 12: 1622, 1982.
Williams RL: Testimony regarding new trends in infant mortality. Congressional Record. US Senate, Senate Hearing 98255, 1983.
Williams RL, Chen PM: Controlling the rise in cesarean section rates by means of vital records information dissemination. American Journal of Public Health 73: 863867, 1983.
Norris FD, Williams RL: Perinatal outcomes among medicaid
recipients in
Williams RL: Using birth and
death certificates to describe maternal & child health risk in
Dorchester W, Redmann R, Freeman R, Mondanlou H, Williams R: Outreach education program. Contemporary Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1985.
Rivara FP,
Williams
RL,
Thorpe LJ, Williams RL: Geocoding public health information. MUMPS Users' Group Quarterly, 16: 8892, 1986.
Williams RL, Chen PM, Marinko JA: The automated vital statistics system: A progress report of continued development and implementation. MUMPS Users' Group Quarterly 16: 9497, 1986.
Phibbs CS, Williams RL, Phibbs RH. Analysis of factors associated with costs of neonatal intensive care. (Abstract) Clinical Research 28: 103A, 1980.
Phibbs CS, Phibbs RH, Pomerance JJ, Williams RL. Alternative to diagnosis-related groups for newborn intensive care. Pediatrics 78. 829-839, 1987.
Binkin NJ, Rust KR, Williams RL. Racial differences in neonatal mortality: What causes of death explain the gap? American Journal of Diseases of Children 142: 434-440, 1988.
Pomerance JJ, Morrison A, Williams RL, Schifrin BS. Anencephalic infants: Life expectancy and organ donation. Journal of Perinatalogy 9: 3337, 1989.
Braveman P, Pearl M, Egerter S, Marchi K, Williams R. Validity of Insurance Information on California Birth Certificates. American Journal Of Public Health 88: 813-816, 1998.
Baumeister
L, Marchi K, Pearl M, Williams R, Braveman P: The Validity of Information on
“Race” and Hispanic Ethnicity” in
RESEARCH REPORTS
"Final Report: Perinatal Mortality and Health Services Productivity" (with Llad Phillips). For the Bureau for Health Services Research and Evaluation, DHEW (1974).
"Intrauterine
Growth and Neonatal Risk in
"Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care." For the Bureau of Community Health Services, DHEW (1977).
"Acute
"Final
Report: MCH Statistical Data Base." For the State of
"Final
Report: Augmenting and Maintaining the MCH Statistical Data Base." For the
State of
"Vital
Record Data for Use in the Planning of Perinatal Health Services. For the State
of
"Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care." For the Bureau of Community Health Services, DHHS (1980).
"1978
"AVSS:
An Automated Vital Statistics System." For the
"1978
- 1980 California Perinatal Statistics." For the State of
"1978
- 1981 Maternal and Child Health Data Base." For the State of
"1978
- 1980 Michigan Perinatal Statistics." For the State of
"1978
- 1982 Maternal and Child Health Data Base." For the State of
"Final
Report: Maternal and Child Health Data Base (MCHDB): Development, Application,
and Dissemination." For the State of
"Report
on Maternal and Child Health Data Base for
"Race-Specific
Perinatal Mortality Statistics by
"Pregnancy
Outcomes for Residents Living Near the B.K.K. Landfill: A Study of the 1978 -
1982 Birth Cohort." For the State of
"1979
- 1983 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1980
- 1984 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1981
- 1985 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1982
- 1986 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"Source of Payment for Prenatal Care Using AVSS." Community and Organization Research Institute (1991).
"1983
- 1987 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1984
- 1988 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1985
- 1989 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
"1986
- 1990 Maternal and Child Health Data Base: Descriptive Narrative." For
the State of
EpiMCH, EpiBC User's Guide: An EpiInfo 6.0 Program For Importing, Reporting, Graphing, And Mapping Birth Certificate Data (1994).
EpiCMR User's Guide: An EpiInfo 6 Application For Importing Data And Generating Reports, Graphs, And Maps From Confidential Morbidity Reports (1995).
AVSS Death Record Data Dictionary (1995).
AVSS/EDR. A Guide To Automated Vital Statistics System Electronic Death Registration (1998 and 1999).
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
1979 - 2000 Journal Referee for the American Journal of Public Health
1980 - 2001 Journal Referee for the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
1981 - 1992 Editorial Board for the Journal of Perinatology
1983 - 1992 Journal Referee for the
1984 - 1992 Journal Referee for Obstetrics and Gynecology
1997 - 2002 Journal Referee for Health Services Research
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED
"A
Discussion of Myopic Optimizing and Intertemporal Optimality in Economic
Growth." For the Western Economics Association Meetings;
"A Discussion
of a Cross-Spectral Analysis of Long Swings in
"An
Analysis of Hospital Costs in
"Using
CHFC Data to Understand the Variation in Hospital Maternity Costs." For
the Using CHFC Symposium;
"Analysis
of Factors Associated with Costs of Neonatal Intensive Care" (with CS
Phibbs and RH Phibbs). For the Western Society for Pediatric Research;
"Partitioning
Declines in Perinatal Mortality Rates in
"Large
Scale Perinatal Data Systems Using Vital Statistics." For the Perinatal
Data Systems Workshop,
"Are
Increased Cesarean Rates Associated with Better Perinatal Outcomes?" For
the Technological Approaches to Obstetrics: Benefits, Risks, Alternatives II;
"Computerized
Direct Entry of Birth Certificate Data." For the 109th Annual APHA
Meeting;
"Vital
Records Data For Perinatal Appropriateness Review." For the 109th Annual
APHA Meeting;
"An
Automated Vital Statistics System." For the 19th National Meeting on
Records and Statistics;
"Use
of Vital Records in Perinatal Care" (poster session). For the 6th Annual
"Monitoring
Changes in Infant Mortality in
"Overview
of Record Linkage: Theory and Practice." For the Design and Management
Issues in the Creation of a Maternal and Child Health Database: IMCHIS
Workshop;
"Statistical
Trends in
"Time
Trends in Perinatal Mortality Rates from
"Geocoding
Public Health Information" (with LJ Thorpe). For the MUMPS Users' Group
Annual Meeting;
"The
Automated Vital Statistics System: A Progress Report of Continued Development
and Implementation" (with PM Chen, JA Marinko). For the MUMPS Users' Group
Annual Meeting;
"Progress
on the Automated Vital Statistics System (AVSS)" (with PM Chen, JA
Marinko). For the 114th Annual APHA Meeting;
"Twinning
Rates Derived From
EXTRAMURAL LECTURES
"Applied
Multiple Regression Techniques." For the Center for Health Statistics,
State of
"The
Maternal and Child Health Statistical Data Base at U. C.
"Evaluating
Neonatal Intensive Care." For the Children's Hospital;
"Perinatal
Mortality Study." For the
"A
Description of the MCH Data Base." For the MCH Directors of Southern
California;
"Evaluation
of Quality of Health Care from Perinatal Mortality." For the Neonatal
Fellows Conference Cardiovascular Research Institute,
"Monitoring
Perinatal Mortality in
"A
Review of MCH Data Resources." For the MCH Directors of Northern
California;
"Vital
Records and Health Planning." For the HSA/OSHPD Workgroup;
"Using
Vital Record Data for Use in Planning of Perinatal Health Service." For
the Southern California HJSF Workshop;
"Using
Vital Record Data for Use in the Planning of Perinatal Health Service."
For the Northern California HSA Workshop;
"Quality
of Perinatal Services Assessment in Appropriateness Review Process." For
the
"Direct Entry of Birth Certificates." For the Vital Statistics Users Committee (1981).
"Measuring
Perinatal Care Effectiveness: Hospital by Hospital Analysis." For the
Perinatal Advisory Council;
"A
Statewide Perinatal Surveillance System Based on Vital Records." For the
MCH Director's TriRegional Workshop;
"Using
COSTAR in Public Health." For the Michigan Department of Public Health;
"Evaluation
of a Perinatal Care System." For the Planning for Regionalization of
Perinatal Care in
"Using
Vital Records to Produce Intrauterine Growth Curves and Fetal Viability
Measures." For the
"Effectiveness
of Perinatal Regionalization." For the PAC/LAC 1982 Regional Perinatal
Conference;
"Software
Development for Vital Statistics." For the Health Officer's Association of
"Data
Collection: Why and How?" For the 1983 PAC/LAC Regional Perinatal
Workshop;
"Using
Birth Certificates to Describe Public Health Risks." For the
"
"UCSB's
Automated Vital Statistics System." For the
"
"Public
Health Surveillance Using Vital Records: Computer's Go Public." For the
Symposium on Data for Health Departments;
"Perinatal
Data Systems." For the
"Maternal
and Child Health Data Systems and the Need for Cooperation in Data Collection,
Management, and Dissemination." For the BiRegional Institute on Current
Issues and Future Trends in Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children;
"Analyzing
Perinatal Mortality Statistics in the Final Decades of the 20th Century."
For the 1984 Director's Meeting of Designated State Centers for Health
Statistics;
"Pregnancy
Outcomes of MexicanHispanic Women." For the Patterns of Care: Binational
MCH Educational Workshop: California/Baja
"A
Perinatal Data System Using
"Using
AVSS to Monitor Community Perinatal Health." For the San Francisco
Department of Public Health and
"Implementing
AVSS in
"How
to Interpret the MCHDB, What Does It Mean to Individual Hospitals?" For
the Fifth Annual Regional Perinatal Conference, PAC/LAC;
"Understanding
the Components of a Family Health Services System Using
"Development
of an Automated Vital Statistics System." For the Moving Towards a Family
Health Services Data System;
"MCH
Uses of Vital Records:
"How
the Maternal and Child Health Data Base Can Be Used to Monitor the Progress of
Regionalization Efforts" (with CS Phibbs). For the Regional Perinatal
Systems Program Workshop,
"How
the Automated Vital Statistics System Can Address Data Problems in Perinatal
Health Care Systems." For the Regional Perinatal Systems Program Workshop,
"How
the Automated Vital Statistics System Can Be Implemented in a
"How
the Automated Vital Statistics System Can Assist in Generating Health
Statistics at the Local Level." For the
"Interfacing
AVSS and EPI-INFO." For the Fifth Annual Public Health Computer
Conference;
"Using
AVSS and EPI-INFO to Produce Timely MCH Data." For the
"Using
AVSS and EPI-INFO to Monitor Communicable Disease at the Community Level."
For the Sixth Annual Public Health Computer Conference;
"Using
"Academic
Perspective on Data Systems."
"Perspective
on the Maternal and Child Health Data Base." For the Community Perinatal
Network;
"Using
AVSS and EPI-INFO for Producing MCAH Reports." For the Institute For
"AVSS
Approach to the Electronic
"The
Maternal and Child Health Data Base." For the Sansum Medical Research
Foundation;
"Vital
Records Automation: The AVSS Perspective." For the
"State
Vital Records Data." For the
"The
Use Of AVSS And EpiInfo." For
FHOP Quantitative Needs Assessment Workshops;
"EpiMCH
and EpiBC, EpiInfo Programs For Analyzing Birth Certificate Data." For Public Health Information Systems In
An Era Of Managed Care;
"Using
AVSS/EpiBC". CCLDMCAH
Statewide Meeting,
"The
AVSS Approach To The Registration Of Deaths." Current Issues In Vital Statistics And
Other Public Health Data. Center
For Health Statistics,
“Local
Matching Of Birth And Infant Death Certificates Using AVSS.” Annual Meeting Of
“AVSS
Response To Request For Information:
“Local
Matching Of Birth And Infant Death Certificates Using AVSS.” For The
“Presenting
AVSS Electronic Death Registration.” For The
“Matching
Birth And Infant Death Certificates Using AVSS.” Colloquium at Department of Health
Services,
“Beyond
Traditional AVSS.” For The
“AVSS
Training For MCH Staff.” Colloquium at Department of Health Services,
“Creating
AVSS Reports And Output.” Presented at the Office of Vital Records
Workshops. Lake Tahoe,
“Incorporating
State File Number Into AVSS.” Presented at the Office of Vital Records.
“AVSS/NET: An Internet Version of
AVSS.” Presented at the Santa Clara County Health Department.
“Combining
AVSS/EDR and AVSS/NET.” Presented at the Merced County Health Department.
“Using
AVSS for Electronic Death Registration.” Presented at the Humboldt County
Health Department.
RESEARCH CONTRACTS AND GRANTS
1972 - 1973 "Perinatal Mortality and Health Services Productivity. Grantor: Bureau of Health Services Research and Evaluation, DHEW Grant No. HS010361. Award: $22,117.
1973 - 1974 "Perinatal Mortality and Health Services Productivity." Grantor: Bureau of Health Services Research and Evaluation, DHEW Grant No. HS010362. Award: $18,549.
1975 "Intrauterine
Growth and Neonatal Risk in
1976 - 1977 "Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care." Grantor: Bureau of Community Health Services, DHEW Grant No. MCR06039001. Award: $54,582.
1977 -
1978 "MCH Statistical Data
Base Year 01." Grantor: State
of
1978 "Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care." Grantor: Bureau of Community Health Services, DHEW Grant No. MCR06039002. Award: $69,512.
1978 -
1979 MCH Statistical Data
Base Year 02." Grantor: State
of
1979 "Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care." Grantor: Bureau of Community Health Services, DHEW Grant No. MCR06039003. Award: $79,885.
1979 -
1980 "MCH Statistical
Data Base Year 03." Grantor:
State of
1980 -
1981 "MCH Statistical
Data Base Year 04." Grantor:
State of
1980
1981 "Public
Health Data Systems." Grantor: State of
1980 "A
Vital Statistics System For
1980 "Establishing
MUMPS/COSTAR in
1981 -
1982 "Technical Support
for the Health Utilization Data Project." Grantor:
1981 -
1982 "Linkage and
Standardization Health Department Provisional Birth Tapes with State of
1982 -
1983 "MCH Statistical
Data Base Year 06." Grantor:
State of
1982 1983 "An Automated Vital Statistics System." Grantor: DHHS, Bureau of Health Care Deliver and Assistance. Award: $51,230.
1983 -
1984 "MCH
Statistical Data Base Year
07." Grantor: State of
1983 - 1984 "Automated Perinatal Statistics System 01." Grantor: DHHS, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance. Award: $119,660.
1984 - 1985 "Automated Perinatal Statistics System 02." Grantor: DHHS, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance. Award: $129,831.
1984-1985 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Year 08." Grantor: State of
1985 - 1986 "Automated Perinatal Statistics System 03." Grantor: DHHS, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance. Award: $136,632.
1985 -
1986 "Implementation
of Automatic Census Tracting in
1985 -
1986 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Year 09." Grantor: State of
1985 -
1986 "AVSS
Training and Consulting Support." Grantor: State of
1985 -
1986 "BKK
Area MCH Data Base Study." Grantor: State of
1986 "AVSS
Training and Consulting Support." Grantor: State of
1986 -
1987 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Year 10." Grantor: State of
1986 -
1987 "1978
- 1984 BKK Landfill MCH Data Base Study." Grantor: State of
1987 -
1988 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Year 11." Grantor: State of
1988 -
1989 "AVSS
Technical Assistance." Grantor: State of
1988 -
1990 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Years 12 - 13." Grantor: State of
1989 -
1990 "AVSS
Technical Assistance." Grantor: State of
1990 -
1991 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Year 14." Grantor: State of
1990 -
1991 "AVSS
Technical Assistance." Grantor: State of
1991 -
1994 "MCH
Statistical Data Base - Years 15 - 17." Grantor: State of
1994 -
1995 "Special
Project/Birthnet." Grantor: State of
1995 -
1999 "Special
Project/Birthnet." Grantor: State of
1999 -
2002 “AVSS-MCH
Technical Assistance.” Grantor: State of
2002 -
2004 “AVSS
Technical Assistance.” Grantor: State of
2004 -
2006 “AVSS
Technical Assistance.” Grantor: State of
2006 -
2011 “AVSS
Technical Assistance.” Grantor: State of
2011 -
2016 “AVSS
Technical Assistance.” Grantor: State of
TEACHING
1975 Microeconomics, Econometrics
Department of Economics
1976 Statistics, Econometrics
Department of Economics
THESIS SUPERVISION
1975 Member, Thesis Committee
Leonard Drabek Ph.D. candidate
Economics
1976 Member, Thesis Committee
Dickson Hingson M.A. candidate
Sociology
1977 Advisor
Gretchen Wheelwright Ph.D. candidate
Education
1979 Chairman, Thesis Committee
Steven Edison M.A. candidate
Urban Economics
1980 Member, Thesis Committee
Peter
Political Science
1993 Member, Thesis Committee
Susan Kennedy Ph.D. candidate
Geography
PUBLIC SERVICE
1978 - 1980 Member Data Subcommittee
Ventura/Santa Barbara Health Systems Agency
1978 Provided testimony for AB2152
Health Committee
1979 - 1980 Member
Perinatal Task Force
Ventura/Santa Barbara Health Systems Agency
1979 Member
Finance Committee
Amigos
de las
1980 - 1984 Consultant
Perinatal Advisory Council
1980 Consultant
Vital Statistics User's Committee
State
of
1981 - 1983 Member
CA Department of Health Services
1981 - 1983 Member
Data Coordinating Committee
CA Department of Health Services
1983 Elected member
Coordinating
Council,
1984 Member
Quality Assurance Task Force
Perinatal
Advisory Council,
1985 - 1988 Reviewer of grant proposals
Department of Health and Human Services
1985 - 1988 Reviewer of grant proposals
March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation
1987 Member
Special Review Committee
Social and Demographic Research on
Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight
National Institutes of Health
1991 - 1997 Member
Policy
Advisory Board
Management and Outcomes of Childbirth
Rand Corporation
1992 - 1994 Member
Assembly Bill 99 Data Subcommittee
Department of Health Services
1992 - 1994 Chairman
Assembly Bill 99 Linkage/Confidentiality Workgroup
Department of Health Service
1992 - 2007 Chairman
AVSS Technical Advisory Group
1992 - 1995 Member
Assembly Bill 524 Technical Advisory Committee
1992 - 1997 Member
Steering Committee
Department of Health Services
1993 - 1994 Member
Advisory Committee
Family Health Outcomes Project
1998 - 2004 Member
Advisory Committee
Maternal and Infant Health Assessment
RECOGNITION
1977 "Newborn Survival, Hospitals Linked."
Bob English
UC Clip Sheet, Vol. 53
October 4, 1977
1977 "UCSB Study Shows Newborn's Survival
Depends in Part on Type of Hospital."
David Saxon
Report of the President of
the
October 21, 1977
1979 "Health Care Evaluations: Focus on the
Present and the Past."
David S. Saxon
Report of the President of the
November 16, 1979
1981 Recognition of service in helping the March of Dimes
achieve its goal of the prevention of birth defects
Presenter: Harry A. Timm
Certificate of Appreciation
July 15, 1981
1982 "
Bob English
UC Clip Sheett
Vol. 57
February 23, 1982
Report to the President of the
May 19, 1982
1982 "Economist Presents Findings on Births
and Infant Deaths."
David S. Saxon
1986 "
David S. Saxon
Report to the President of the
May 16, 1986
1992 Outstanding service on AB/99
Data/Outcome Subcommittee
Molly Joel Coye, Director
Department of Health Services
December 17, 1992
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