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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

Association between local public housing authority policies related to criminal justice system involvement and sexually transmitted infection rates

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Changes in legislator vaccine-engagement on Twitter before and after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Determinants of using children’s mental health research in policymaking : variation by type of research use and phase of policy process

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Disseminating evidence to policymakers : Accounting for audience heterogeneity

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Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health policy and practice implementation

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Linking Data on Constituent Health with Elected Officials’ Opinions : Associations Between Urban Health Disparities and Mayoral Officials’ Beliefs About Health Disparities in Their Cities

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Newspaper Coverage of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress in the United States, 2014–2020 : Consequences, Causes, and Solutions

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Partisan differences in twitter language among US legislators during the COVID-19 pandemic : Cross-sectional study

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Perceived Persuasiveness of Evidence About Adverse Childhood Experiences : Results From a National Survey

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Posttraumatic stress, depression, and sleep among young survivors of violence

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State Legislators’ Divergent Social Media Response to the Opioid Epidemic from 2014 to 2019 : Longitudinal Topic Modeling Analysis

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The effect of caregiver key opinion leaders on increasing caregiver demand for evidence-based practices to treat youth anxiety : protocol for a randomized control trial

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The Intersection of Dissemination Research and Acupuncture : Applications for Chronic Low Back Pain

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The Other US Border : Health Insurance Coverage Among Latino Immigrants In Puerto Rico

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Who Is Talking About Adverse Childhood Experiences? Evidence From Twitter to Inform Health Promotion

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Aligning dissemination and implementation science with health policies to improve children’s mental health.

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Association of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Incidence with Proposed State Vaccine Exemption Legislation

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COVID-19 and mental health equity in the United States

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Dissemination of urban health research to maximize impact

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Dissemination Strategies to Accelerate the Policy Impact of Children’s Mental Health Services Research

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Earmarked taxes as a policy strategy to increase funding for behavioral health services

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Factors associated with state legislators’ support for opioid use disorder parity laws

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Mental illness and bipolar disorder on Twitter : implications for stigma and social support

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Public opinion about evidence-informed health policy development in U.S. Congress

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Contact

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