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 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

State Legislators’ Divergent Social Media Response to the Opioid Epidemic from 2014 to 2019: Longitudinal Topic Modeling Analysis

The effect of caregiver key opinion leaders on increasing caregiver demand for evidence-based practices to treat youth anxiety: protocol for a randomized control trial

The Intersection of Dissemination Research and Acupuncture: Applications for Chronic Low Back Pain

The Other US Border: Health Insurance Coverage Among Latino Immigrants In Puerto Rico

Who Is Talking About Adverse Childhood Experiences? Evidence From Twitter to Inform Health Promotion

Aligning dissemination and implementation science with health policies to improve children’s mental health.

Association of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Incidence with Proposed State Vaccine Exemption Legislation

Dissemination of urban health research to maximize impact

Dissemination Strategies to Accelerate the Policy Impact of Children’s Mental Health Services Research

Earmarked taxes as a policy strategy to increase funding for behavioral health services

Factors associated with state legislators’ support for opioid use disorder parity laws

Mental illness and bipolar disorder on Twitter: implications for stigma and social support

Public opinion about evidence-informed health policy development in U.S. Congress

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

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

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