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Jonathan Purtle

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Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management

Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science

Professional overview

Jonathan Purtle is Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health and also Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science.

Dr. Purtle is a mental health policy researcher and implementation scientist. His work examines questions such as how the implementation of policies “on the books” can be improved in practice, how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used in policymaking processes, and how social and political contexts affect mental health policymaking and policy implementation. He is also studies population-based approaches to mental health, suicide prevention, and novel financing models for mental health services—such as earmarked taxes and fees.

Dr. Purtle’s work has been consistently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). He is currently leading a NIMH-funded project focused on financing policies related to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (R01MH131649), a NIDA-funded study (through the CHERISH Center, P30DA040500) that is analyzing social media data to identify audience segments of state legislators who conceptualize substance use issues in different ways and experimentally testing different ways of communicating evidence these legislators, and co-leading a NCI-funded study focused on cancer policy implementation strategies (R21ACA293319). He is also a co-investigator on projects focused on mental health and health care system resilience following disasters is Puerto Rico (R01MD016426) and Hawaiʻi (R61MD019939).

He has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles, is an Associate Editor at Implementation Science, Co-Chairs the Policy Advisory Board at Psychiatric Services, is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and is Core Faculty of the NIMH-funded Implementation Research Institute. 

Education

BA, Psychology, Roger Williams University
MSc, Sociology, Universiteit van Amsterdam
MPH, Drexel University
DrPH, Drexel University

Publications

Publications

Using audience segmentation to identify implementation strategies to improve PrEP uptake among at-risk cisgender women : a mixed-methods study protocol

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Where do psychologists turn to inform clinical decisions? Audience segmentation to guide dissemination strategies

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Who’s “in the room where it happens”? A taxonomy and five-step methodology for identifying and characterizing policy actors

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An Examination of Factors Affecting State Legislators’ Support for Parity Laws for Different Mental Illnesses

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Comparing two federal financing strategies on penetration and sustainment of the adolescent community reinforcement approach for substance use disorders : protocol for a mixed-method study

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Considering multiple governance levels in epidemiologic analysis of public policies

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Earmarking Excise Taxes on Recreational Cannabis for Investments in Mental Health : An Underused Financing Strategy

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Growing inequities in mental health crisis services offered to indigent patients in Puerto Rico versus the US states before and after Hurricanes Maria and Irma

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Heterogeneity in Disparities in Life Expectancy Across US Metropolitan Areas

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health Safety Net Services for Youths : A National Survey of Agency Officials

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Inter-agency collaboration is associated with increased frequency of research use in children's mental health policy making

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Partisan Differences in Legislators' Discussion of Vaccination on Twitter During the COVID-19 Era : Natural Language Processing Analysis

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Partisan differences in the effects of economic evidence and local data on legislator engagement with dissemination materials about behavioral health : a dissemination trial

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Policy Makers' Priorities for Addressing Youth Substance Use and Factors That Influence Priorities

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Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers : learning from a pre-mortem

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Public Opinion About Adverse Childhood Experiences : Social Stigma, Attribution of Blame, and Government Intervention

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Scaling Interventions to Manage Chronic Disease : Innovative Methods at the Intersection of Health Policy Research and Implementation Science

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Selecting evidence to frame the consequences of adverse childhood experiences : testing effects on public support for policy action, multi-sector responsibility, and stigma

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Simulating the role of knowledge brokers in policy making in state agencies : An agent-based model

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State Policies that Impact the Design of Children’s Mental Health Services : A Modified Delphi Study

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State-Level Social and Economic Policies and Their Association With Perinatal and Infant Outcomes

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The impact of Medicaid funding structures on inequities in health care access for Latinos in New York, Florida, and Puerto Rico

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What social norms are associated with parenting programs?

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“If I was to post something, it would be too vulnerable:” University students and mental health disclosures on instagram

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Academic-Policy Partnerships in Evidence-Based Practice Implementation and Policy Maker Use of Child Mental Health Research

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Contact

jonathan.purtle@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003