Please join the Department of Public Health Policy and Management for a special presentation titled Disseminating Health Evidence to Policymakers: Data-Driven Research featuring Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MSc.
Dr. Purtle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. He is a health policy dissemination and implementation researcher who focuses on issues related to mental health and health equity. His research uses theories and methods from the social sciences to understand how scientific evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and translated into practice. Jonathan is currently Principal Investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded study that is testing the effects of strategic development policies and stigma towards children and families.
He is also Co-PI of a NIMH and NIDA-funded P50 project that is using agent-based modeling to understand factors that influence research use in children's state mental health policymaking. He was recently PI of a NIMH-funded R21 that surveyed state legislators to understand their opinions about mental health and substance use issues and how they use evidence in decision making. He is also Co-Investigator of a NIMHD-funded R01 that is assessing the mental health impacts of Hurricane Maria on Island Puerto Ricans (PIs Ortega and Canino) and a NIMH-funded R01 that is assessing the effects of public housing policies on HIV/STI risk (PI Blankenship).
This event is open to all GPH faculty and doctoral students.