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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

Assessing the spatial heterogeneity in overall health across the United States using spatial regression methods : The contribution of health factors and county-level demographics

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Audience segmentation to disseminate behavioral health evidence to legislators : An empirical clustering analysis

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Inter-Agency Strategies Used by State Mental Health Agencies to Assist with Federal Behavioral Health Parity Implementation

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Legislators' Sources of Behavioral Health Research and Preferences for Dissemination : Variations by Political Party

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The Impact of Law on Syndromic Disease Surveillance Implementation

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Understanding policymakers' opinions can help foster policy change

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US mayors’ and health commissioners’ opinions about health disparities in their cities

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An audience research study to disseminate evidence about comprehensive state mental health parity legislation to US State policymakers : Protocol

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Factors Perceived as Influencing Local Health Department Involvement in Mental Health

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Funding quality pre-kindergarten slots with Philadelphia's new 'sugary drink tax' : Simulating effects of using an excise tax to address a social determinant of health

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Infusing Science into Politics and Policy : The Importance of Legislators as an Audience in Mental Health Policy Dissemination Research

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Is this thing on? Getting the public to listen to the pro-vaccine message

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Mapping “Trauma-Informed” Legislative Proposals in U.S. Congress

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Policy dissemination research

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Population mental health & community violence : Advancing the role of local health departments

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The role of nonprofit hospitals in identifying and addressing health inequities in cities

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Who votes for public health? U.S. senator characteristics associated with voting in concordance with public health policy recommendations (1998–2013)

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"Calculating the toll of trauma" in the headlines : Portrayals of posttraumatic stress disorder in the New York Times (1980-2015)

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"Heroes' invisible wounds of war:" Constructions of posttraumatic stress disorder in the text of US federal legislation

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A review of policy dissemination and implementation research funded by the National Institutes of Health, 2007-2014

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Gender differences in posttraumatic stress symptoms among participants of a violence intervention program at a pediatric hospital : A pilot study

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Prevalence and correlates of local health department activities to address mental health in the United States

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Treating youth violence in hospital and emergency department settings

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Uses of research evidence by state legislators who prioritize behavioral health issues

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Cost-benefit analysis simulation of a hospital-based violence intervention program

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Contact

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