Jonathan Purtle
Jonathan Purtle
Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management
Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science
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Professional overview
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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.
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Education
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BA, Psychology, Roger Williams UniversityMSc, Sociology, Universiteit van AmsterdamMPH, Drexel UniversityDrPH, Drexel University
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Publications
Publications
Health awareness days : Sufficient evidence to support the craze?
Failed retrieving data.Hospital-based violence prevention : Progress and opportunities
Failed retrieving data.Lives matter. Do votes? Invited commentary on "Black lives matter : Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970-2004"
Failed retrieving data.Purtle and Roman respond
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Failed retrieving data.Scared safe? Abandoning the use of fear in urban violence prevention programmes
Failed retrieving data.The youth nonfatal violent injury review panel : An innovative model to inform policy and systems change
Failed retrieving data.Gender-specific research on mental illness in the emergency department : Current knowledge and future directions
Failed retrieving data.The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion creates incentive for state Medicaid agencies to provide reimbursement for hospital-based violence intervention programmes
Failed retrieving data.The Legislative Response to PTSD in the United States (1989-2009) : A Content Analysis
Failed retrieving data.The psychological sequelae of violent injury in a pediatric intervention
Failed retrieving data.Felon disenfranchisement in the United States : A health equity perspective
Failed retrieving data.Hospital-based violence intervention programs save lives and money
Failed retrieving data.Purtle responds
Failed retrieving data.The prevalence of trauma and childhood adversity in an urban, hospital-based violence intervention program
Failed retrieving data.Integrating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities Into Planning for Disasters : The California Experience
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