Jonathan Purtle

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

Public transit and depression among older adults : Using agent-based models to examine plausible impacts of a free bus policy

Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Local Housing Authority Policies Toward People with Criminal Justice Histories : United States, 2009-2018

Quantitative measures of health policy implementation determinants and outcomes : A systematic review

State and Local Government Expenditures and Infant Mortality in the United States

Systematic Review of Evaluations of Trauma-Informed Organizational Interventions That Include Staff Trainings

The heterogeneous effect of marijuana decriminalization policy on arrest rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009–2018

Toward the data-driven dissemination of findings from psychological science.

What Predicts a Mayoral Official’s Opinion about the Role of Stress in Health Disparities?

Big City Health Officials' Conceptualizations of Health Equity

Complex Systems Approaches to Understand Drivers of Mental Health and Inform Mental Health Policy : A Systematic Review

Depression and alcohol misuse among older adults : exploring mechanisms and policy impacts using agent-based modelling

Examining the possible impact of daily transport on depression among older adults using an agent-based model

Modeling HPV vaccination scale-up among urban young men who have sex with men in the context of HIV

Perceptions of patient-provider communication and receipt of mental health treatment among older adults with depressive symptoms

Population-based approaches to mental health : History, strategies, and evidence

State legislators' opinions about adverse childhood experiences as risk factors for adult behavioral health conditions

State Legislators’ Support for Behavioral Health Parity Laws : The Influence of Mutable and Fixed Factors at Multiple Levels

State Mental Health Agency Officials' Preferences for and Sources of Behavioral Health Research

Strengthening partnerships between substance use researchers and policy makers to take advantage of a window of opportunity

The Case of a Mass Shooting and Violence-Related Mental Illness Stigma on Twitter

Trends and characteristics of proposed and enacted state legislation on childhood vaccination exemption, 2011–2017

Urban–Rural Differences in Older Adult Depression : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Comparative Studies

Uses of Population Health Rankings in Local Policy Contexts : A Multisite Case Study

A Case Study of the Philadelphia Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Policymaking Process : Implications for Policy Development and Advocacy

A Content Analysis of Hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessments in the Most Violent U.S. Cities