Jonathan Purtle

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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 and 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 and suicide prevention. 

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/recently led NIMH-funded projects focused on the implementation of financing policies related to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (R01MH131649) and policies that earmark taxes for mental health services (R21MH125261) and understanding the dynamics of research evidence in mental health policymaking (P50MH113662). He also recently completed a RWJF-funded project that experimentally tested different ways of communicating evidence about child maltreatment to the public and policymakers.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, is an Associate Editor at Implementation Science, and Co-Chairs the Policy Advisory Board at Psychiatric Services. He is Core Faculty of the NIMH-funded Implementation Research Institute, was Chair of the Policy Section of the AcademyHeath/NIH Dissemination and Implementation in Heath Conference from 2017 to 2022, was awarded the 2018 Champion of Evidence-Based Interventions Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies for his work on evidence use in mental health policymaking.

Education

BA, Psychology, Roger Williams University
MSc, Sociology, Universiteit van Amsterdam
MPH, Drexel University
DrPH, Drexel University

Publications

Publications

A regional analysis of healthcare utilization trends during consecutive disasters in puerto rico using private claims data

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Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered before and after the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

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Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair

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Evidence for Public Policies to Prevent Suicide Death in the United States

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Review of Emergent Financing Models for Mental Health Crisis Systems

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State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use among Adolescents with Depression

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The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US: status of evidence on implementation

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The effect of caregiver opinion leaders to increase demand for evidence-based practices for youth anxiety: A cluster randomized controlled trial

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Use of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at National, Regional, and State Levels

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A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health

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A Tale of Two Taxes: Implementation of Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health Services in California and Washington State

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Acceptability and feasibility of policy implementation strategies for taxes earmarked for behavioral health services

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Demographic variation in preferred sources for suicide prevention and mental health crisis services among U.S. adults

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Design considerations for developing measures of policy implementation in quantitative evaluations of public health policy

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Impact of U.S. Federal Loan Repayment Programs on the Behavioral Health Workforce: Scoping Review

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Maui Wildfire and 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Call Volume and Capacity

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Measuring variation in infant mortality and deaths of despair by US congressional district in Pennsylvania: a methodological case study

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Methods and measures to evaluate the impact of participatory model building on public policymakers: a scoping review protocol

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Multi-level alignment processes in the sustainment of a youth substance use treatment model following a federal implementation initiative: A mixed method study

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Operational and organizational variation in determinants of policy implementation success: the case of policies that earmark taxes for behavioral health services

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Policy dissemination and implementation research

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Proportion of US Counties and Population Served by Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics

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Scaling Interventions to Manage Chronic Disease: Innovative Methods at the Intersection of Health Policy Research and Implementation Science

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The Translational Science Benefits Model, a new training tool for demonstrating implementation science impact: A pilot study

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Trends in hospital capacity and utilization in Puerto Rico by health regions, 2010–2020

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Contact

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