Carole Roan Gresenz is dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy. She served as senior advisor for Strategic Health Initiatives in the Office of the President from 2021-2022, as interim dean of the School of Nursing & Health Studies from 2019-2021, and as senior associate dean of the School of Nursing & Health Studies from 2018-2019. She was the Jacobs Endowed Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at Georgetown between 2012 and 2025. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation where her positions included being director of RAND Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department; director of  RAND Health Economics, Finance and Organization program; and associate director of RAND Institute for Civil Justice. Her ongoing research examines the financial consequences of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. She serves on the editorial boards of Medical Care Research and Review and Transforming Care, and recently served as member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Youth through Health Care System Transformation. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Brown University and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University Maryland.