CURRICULUM VITAE
Joshua Breslau, PhD, ScD
Office Address: RAND Corporation 4570 Fifth Avenue Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 683-2300 x4420
Email: [email protected]
Education
2005 Sc.D., Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1999 Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard University
1987 A. B. Anthroplogy, University of Chicago
Current Academic Appointment
Senior Health/Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
Previous Academic Positions
2010-2011: Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, U.C. Davis School of Medicine
2006-2010: Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, U.C. Davis School of Medicine
2003-2006: Instructor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
2005: Instructor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1998: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tufts University
1995-1997: Lecturer, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kobe University, Japan
Areas of Expertise
Psychiatric Epidemiology, Medical Anthropology, Mental Health Services Research, Qualitative Research Methods.
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Current Research Projects
Availability and Accessibility of Mental Health Services in New York City Principal Investigator 4/2021-1/2022 THRIVENYC AND NYC OPPORTUNITY Maps and analyzes barriers to mental health services across New York City.
Policy Impacts on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Behavioral Health Care Principal Investigator 6/2015-12/2021 NATIONAL INST ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES (R01 MD010274) Tests the impact that health policies have on disparities in behavioral health care.
Provider Networks and Quality of Physical Health Care for Adults with Serious Mental Illness Principal Investigator NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (R21 MH113882) 5/2018-3/2021 Examines the relationship between provider network characteristics and the quality of physical health care received by adults with serious mental illnesses.
Evaluation of the CCBHC Demonstration Program Principal Investigator DEPT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES 9/2016-9/2022 Evaluation of a federally mandated demonstration project of a model of community mental health center known as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic CCBHC.
Independent Evaluation of the New York State (NYS) Health and Recovery Plans (HARP) Program and Self-Directed Care (SDC) Pilot Program Co-Principal Investigator 12/2020-2/2021 NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Evaluation of two innovative mental health delivery reforms in New York State.
Independent Interim Evaluation of the New York 1115 Waiver Amendment: Children’s Design Co-Investigator 6/2020-3/2022 NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Interim evaluation of the redesign of care for children with complex medical needs in the New York State Medicaid program.
Medi-Cal Payment Reform and Behavioral Health Principal Investigator 11/2020-9/2021 CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION Examines options for Medi-Cal payment reform under CalAIM and their implications for behavioral health care in California.
Screening for Childhood Trauma Co-Investigator 1/2020-12/2021 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES Evaluates the impact of California’s ACES Aware project.
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Peer Reviewed Publications
1. Dickey, Barbara; Berren, Michael; Santiago, Jose; Breslau, Joshua ‘Patterns of Service Use and Costs in Model Day Hospital-Inn Programs in Boston and Tucson’ Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41(4) 1990 p.419-424.
2. Ware, Norma; Desjarlais, Robert; AvRuskin, Tara; Breslau, Joshua; Good, Byron; Goldfinger, Stephen ‘Empowerment and the Transition to Housing for Homeless Mentally Ill People: An Anthropological Perspective’ New England Journal of Public Policy 8(1) 1992 p.297-314.
3. Breslau, Joshua, ‘A Report on a Study Tour of Disaster Response Services in Los Angeles’ (Rosu Anzerusu ni Okeru Saigai Taisaku to Seishin Hoken) translated by Hisao Nakai Misuzu 432, 1997.
4. Breslau, Joshua ‘Globalizing Disaster Trauma: Psychiatry, Science and Culture after the Kobe Earthquake’ Ethos 28(2) 2000 p.174-197. DOI: 10.1525/eth.2000.28.2.174
5. Breslau, Joshua ‘Pathways through the Border of Biomedicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine:A Meeting of Medical Systems in a Japanese Psychiatry Department’ Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry, 25(3) 2001 p.251-275. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011868107241 PMID: 11680475
6. Breslau, Joshua ‘Secrecy and Disclosure of Diagnosis in a Japanese Psychiatric Apprenticeship’ Tsantsa 7, 2002 p.32-44.
7. Breslau, Joshua ‘Apprenticeship and Global Institutions: Learning Japanese Psychiatry’ Social Analysis, 47(1) 2003 p.27-41.
8. Breslau, Joshua ‘Cultures of Trauma: Anthropological Views of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in International Health’ Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, June, 2004 p.113- 126. DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000034421.07612.c8 PMID: 15470944
9. Breslau, Joshua; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Su, Maxwell; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Lifetime risk and persistence of psychiatric disorders across ethnic groups in the United States’ 2005, Psychological Medicine 35 (3) 317-327. PMCID: PMC2748985
10. Breslau, Joshua; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Williams, David; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Su, Maxwell; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Specifying Race-Ethnic Differences in Risk for Psychiatric Disorders in a US National Sample’ 2006, Psychological Medicine 36(1) 57-68. PMCID: PMC1924605
11. Breslau, Joshua; Chang, Doris ‘Psychiatric Disorders among Foreign-born and US-born Asian-Americans in a US National Survey’ 2006, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 41(12) 943-950. PMCID: PMC2748988
12. Breslau, Joshua; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Borges, Gui; Kendler, Kenneth; Su, Maxwell; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Psychiatric Disorders among Immigrants and Their US-Born Descendants: Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication’ 2007, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 195(3) 189-195. PMCID: PMC2748988
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13. Gilman, Stephen; Breslau, Joshua; Subramanian, S.V Koenen, Karestan; Hitsman, Brian ‘Social factors, psychiatric disorders, and maternal smoking during pregnancy in a United States representative sample, 2001-2002’ 2008, American Journal of Public Health, 98(3):448-53. PMCID: PMC2253564
14. Borges, Guilherme; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Breslau, Joshua, Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio ‘The effect of migration to the US on substance use disorders among return migrants and Mexican families of migrants’ 2007, American Journal of Public Health, 97(10) 1847- 1851. PMCID: PMC1994169
15. Breslau, Joshua; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Borges, Gui; Castilla-Puentes, Ruby Cecilia; Kendler, Kenneth; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Su, Maxwell, Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Mental Disorders among Mexican immigrants to the US Compared to a National Sample of Mexicans’ 2007, Psychiatry Research 151(1-2) 115-122. PMCID: PMC2748970
16. Gilman, Stephen; Breslau, Joshua; Conron, Kerith; Koenan, Karestan; Subramanian, SV; Zaslavsky, Alan. ‘Education and Race-Ethnicity Differences in Risk of Alcohol Dependence’ 2008, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62(3):224-30. PMCID: PMC2748996
17. Breslau, Joshua; Javaras, Kristin; Blacker, Deborah; Murphy, Jane; Normand, Sharon- Lise. ‘Differential Item Functioning between Ethnic Groups in the Assessment of Depression’ 2008, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 196(4) (297-306). PMCID: PMC2748987
18. Breslau, Joshua; Lane, Michael; Sampson, Nancy; Kessler, Ronald ‘Mental Disorders and Subsequent Termination of Education in a US National Sample’ 2008, Journal of Psychiatric Research 42 (9) 708-716. PMCID: PMC2748981
19. Borges, Guilherme; Breslau, Joshua; Su, Maxwell; Miller, Matthew; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio. ‘Immigration and suicidal behavior among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans’ 2009, American Journal of Public Health 99(4):728-733. PMCID: PMC2661474
20. Breslau, Joshua; Miller, Elizabeth; Breslau, Naomi; Bohnert, Kipling; Lucia, Victoria; Schweitzer, Julie ‘The impact of childhood behavior problems on academic achievement in high school’ 2009, Pediatrics 123:1472–1476. PMCID: PMC2778327
21. Lee, Sing; Tsang, Adley; Breslau, Joshua et al. ‘An epidemiological study of mental disorders and termination of education in developed and developing countries’ 2009, British Journal of Psychiatry 194: 411-417. PMCID: PMC2801820
22. Breslau, Joshua; Borges, Guilherme; Hagar, Yolanda; Tancredi, Daniel; Gilman, Stephen ‘Immigration to the USA and risk for mood and anxiety disorders: variation by origin and age at immigration’ 2009, Psychological Medicine 39(7) 1117-1127. PMCID: PMC2748984
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23. Borges, Guilherme; Medina-Mora, Maria-Elena; Orozco, Ricardo; Fleiz, Carla; Cherpitel, Cheryl; Breslau, Joshua. ‘Mexican migration to the USA and substance use in Northern Mexico’ 2009, Addiction 104 603-11. PMCID: PMC2782571
24. Breslau, Naomi; Breslau, Joshua; Peterson Edward; Miller Elizabeth; Lucia, Victoria C.; Bohnert, Kipling; Nigg, Joel. ‘Change in teachers’ ratings of attention problems and subsequent change in academic achievement: a prospective analysis’ 2010, Psychological Medicine 40(1) 159-166. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709005960 PMID: 19490743
25. Roberts, Andrea L.; Gilman, Stephen E.; Breslau, Joshua; Breslau, Naomi, Koenen, Karestan C. ‘Race/ethnic differences in exposure to traumatic events, development of post-traumatic stress disorder, and treatment-seeking for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States’ 2011, Psychological Medicine ; 41:71-84. PMCID: PMC3097040
26. Breslau, Joshua; Borges, Guilherme; Tancredi Daniel J.; Saito, Naomi; Anderson, Heather A.; Hinton, Ladson; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Medina Mora, Maria-Elena ‘Health Selection among Migrants from Mexico to the US: Childhood Predictors of Adult Physical and Mental Health’ Public Health Reports 2011; 126 (3): 361-370. PMCID: PMC3072858
27. Breslau, Joshua, Miller, Elizabeth, Chung, W-J Joanie; Schweitzer, Julie ‘Childhood and Adolescent Onset Psychiatric Disroders, Substance Use and Failure to Graduate from High School On Time’ Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2011, 45(3) 295-301. PMCID: PMC2962709
28. Breslau, Naomi; Breslau, Joshua; Miller, Elizabeth; Raykov, Temko. ‘Behavior problems at ages 6 and 11 and high school academic achievement: longitudinal latent variable modeling’ Psychiatry Research 2011 185(3) 433-437. PMCID: PMC6299447
29. Gilman, Stephen E.; Breslau, Joshua; Trinh, Nhi-Ha; Fava, Maurizio; Murphy, Jane; Smoller, Jordan W. ‘Bereavement and the Diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode’ Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2012 73(2) 208-215. PMCID: PMC3721753
30. Breslau, Joshua; Borges, Guilherme; Tancredi, Daniel J.; Saito, Naomi; Kravitz, Richard; Hinton, Ladson; Vega, William; Medina Mora, Maria-Elena; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio ‘Migration from Mexico to the US and Subsequent Risk for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: A Cross-National Study’ Archives of General Psychiatry 2011 68(4) 428-433. PMCID: PMC3733092
31. Borges, Guilherme; Breslau, Joshua; Orozco, Ricardo; Tancredi, Daniel; Anderson, Heather; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Medina-Mora, Maria-Elena ‘A Cross-National Study of Mexico-US Migration, Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders’ Drug and Alcohol and Dependence, 2011, 117(1) 16-23. PMCID:PMC3110586
32. Miller, Elizabeth; Breslau, Joshua; Chung, W-J Joanie; Green, Jennifer G.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk for Physical Violence in Adolescent Dating Relationships’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2011 65(11):1006-13. PMCID: PMC3686487
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33. Breslau, J., Miller, E., Jin, R., Sampson, N. A., Alonso, J., Andrade, L. H., Bromet, E. J., de Girolamo, G., Demyttenaere, K., Fayyad, J., Fukao, A., Gălăon, M., Gureje, O., He, Y., Hinkov, H. R., Hu, C., Kovess-Masfety, V., Matschinger, H., Medina-Mora, M. E., Ormel, J., Posada-Villa, J., Sagar, R., Scott, K. M. and Kessler, R. C. (2011), A multinational study of mental disorders, marriage, and divorce. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. PMCID: PMC4011132
34. Breslau, Joshua; Borges, Guilherme; Tancredi, Daniel J.; Saito, Naomi; Kendler, Kenneth; Kravitz, Richard; Hinton, Ladson; Vega, William; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Medina Mora, Maria-Elena ‘Migration from Mexico to the US and Conduct Disorder: A Cross-National Study’, Archives of General Psychiatry 2011 68(12) p1284-1293. PMCID: PMC3739443
35. Miller, Elizabeth, Breslau, Joshua et al. ‘Marital Violence in a Cross-National Sample of Married Couples’, 2011 British Journal of Psychiatry: 199(4):330-7. PMCID:PMC3184228
36. McLaughlin, Katie A.; Breslau, Joshua; Green, Jennifer Grief; Lakoma, Matthew D.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Zaslavasky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Childhood socio- economic position and the onset, persistence, and severity of DSM-IV mental disorders in a US national sample’. Social Science and Medicine 2011 73: 1088-1096. PMCID: PMC3191493
37. Borges, Guilherme; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Benjet, Corina; Lee, Sing; Lane, Michael; Breslau, Joshua ‘The influence of mental disorders on termination of education in Mexico’ , Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health 2011 30(5): 477-483 PMID: 22262275 Non-US Government Funds
38. Breslau, Joshua; Saito, Naomi; Tancredi, Daniel; Nock, Matthew; Gilman, Stephen ‘Classes of Conduct Disorder and their Life Course Correlates in a US National Sample’ 2012, Psychological Medicine 42(5):1081-9 PMCID: PMC6310146
39. Borges, Guilherme; Breslau, Joshua; Orozco, Ricardo; Rafful, Claudia; Miller, Elizabeth. Suicidality, ethnicity and immigration in the United States, 2012, Psychological Medicine 42(6) 1175-1184. PMCID:PMC3733100
40. Swanson, Sonja; Saito, Naomi; Benjet, Corina; Borges, Guilherme; Breslau, Joshua ‘Change in Binge Eating and Binge Eating Disorder Associated with Migration from Mexico to the US’ Journal of Psychiatric Research 2012 46(1):31-7. PMCID: PMC3224155
41. Fernandez y Garcia, Erik; Breslau Joshua; Hansen Robin; Miller Elizabeth. ‘Unintended Consequences: An Ethnographic Narrative Case Series Exploring Language Recommendations for Bilingual Families of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders’ Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology. 2012;20(2):10. PMCID N/A: Non-US Government Funds
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42. Tong, Elisa; Saito, Naomi; Tancredi, Daniel; Borges, Guilherme; Kravitz, Richard; Hinton, Ladson; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Breslau, Joshua ‘A Transnational Study of Migration and Smoking Behavior in the Mexican-Origin Population’ American Journal of Public Health 2012 102(11) 2116-2122. PMCID: PMC3477978
43. Gilman, Stephen; Trinh, Nhi-ha; Smoller, Jordan; Fava, Maurizio; Murphy, Jane; Breslau, Joshua ‘Psychosocial stressors and the prognosis of major depression: a test of Axis IV’ Psychological Medicine 2013 43(2) 303-316. PMCID:PMC3721739
44. Borges, Guilherme, Rafful, Claudia, Benjet, Corina, Tancredi, Daniel J., Saito, Naomi, Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio, Medina-Mora, Maria Elena, Breslau, Joshua ‘Mexican immigration to the U.S. and alcohol and drug use opportunities: Does it make a difference in alcohol and/or drug use? Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2012 125(Suppl 1) p.S4-11. PMCID:PMC3435444
45. Florez, Karen; Dubowitz, Tamara; Saito, Naomi; Borges, Guilherme; Breslau, Joshua. ‘United States-Mexico Migration and the Prevalence of Obesity: A Transnational Perspective’ Archives of Internal Medicine 2012 172:22 1760-1762. PMCID: PMC3733096
46. Borges, Guilherme; Rafful, Claudia; Tancredi, Daniel; Saito, Naomi; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Breslau, Joshua; ‘The Mexican immigration to the US, the occurrence of violence and the impact of mental disorders’ Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 2013 35(2) 161-168. PMCID: PMC4164962
47. Orozco, Ricardo; Borges, Guilherme; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Breslau, Joshua ‘A Cross-National Study on Prevalence of Mental Disorders, Service Use and Adequacy of Treatment among Mexican and Mexican-American populations’ In Press, American Journal of Public Health 2013 103(9):1610-8. PMCID: PMC3780667
48. Dang, Michelle; Conger, Katherine; Breslau, Joshua; Miller, Elizabeth. ‘Exploring Protective Factors among Homeless Youth: The Role of Natural Mentors’ 2014 Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 25(3):1121-38 doi: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0133
49 Luo, Zhehui; Breslau, Joshua; Gardiner, Joseph; Chen, Qiaoling; Breslau, Naomi. ‘Assessing Interchangeability at Cluster-Levels with Multiple-Informant Data’ 2014 Statistics in Medicine 33:3 361-375. PMCID: PMC3947300
50. Gilman, Stephen; Ni, Michael; Dunn, Erin; Breslau, Joshua; McLaughlin, Katie; Smoller, Jordan; Perlis, Roy. ‘Contributions of the Social Environment to First-Onset and Recurrent Mania’ Molecular Psychiatry, 2015 Mar;20(3):329-36 PMCID: PMC4206672
51. Breslau, Joshua; Marshall, Grant; Pincus, Harold; Brown, Ryan. ‘Are Mental Disorders More Common in Urban than Rural Areas of the United States?’ 2014, Journal of Psychiatric Research, 56: 50-55 PMID: 24857610
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52. Henrichs, Kimberly L; McCauley, Heather L; Miller, Elizabeth; Styne, Dennis M; Saito, Naomi; Breslau, Joshua. ‘Early Menarche and Childhood Adversities in a Nationally Representative Sample’ 2014 International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2014:14 DOI: 10.1186/1687-9856-2014-14. PMCID: PMC4118267
53. Caqueo-Urizar, Alejandra; Breslau, Joshua; Gilman, Stephen E. ‘Beliefs about the causes of schizophrenia among Aymara and non-Aymara patients and their primary caregivers in the Central-Southern Andes’ 2015 International Journal of Social Psychiatry 61(1): 82- 91 PMID:25085414
54. Borges, Guilherme; Orozco, Ricardo; Breslau, Joshua; Miller, Matthew. ‘An observational study of the impact of service use on suicidality among adults with mental disorders’, 2014, Injury Epidemiology doi:10.1186/s40621-014-0029-9 PMCID: PMC5005696
55. Borges, Guilherme; Zamora, Beatriz; Garcia, Jose; Orozco, Ricardo; Cherpitel, Cheryl; Zemore, Sarah; Breslau, Joshua. ‘Symptoms of anxiety in both sides of the US-Mexico border: the role of immigration’ 2014, Journal of Psychiatric Research 61: 46-51. PMCID: PMC4308435
56. Florez, Karen R.; Derose, Kathryn Pitkin; Breslau, Joshua; Griffin, Beth Ann; Haas, Ann C.; Kanouse, David E.; Stucky, Brian D.; Williams, Malcolm V. ‘Acculturation and drug addiction stigma among Latinos and African Americans: An examination of a church- based sample’, 2015, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. PMCID: PMC4512929
57. McCauley, Heather L.; Breslau, Joshua; Saito, Naomi; Miller, Elizabeth. ‘Early Onset Psychiatric Disorders and Physical Dating Violence Before Age 21: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)’, 2015 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 50(9): 1357-1365 PMCID: PMC4569529
58. Foster, Lovie J.J.; Phillips, Chereese M.; Yabes, Jonathan; Breslau, Joshua; O’Brien, Kirk; Miller, Elizabeth; Pecora, Peter J. ‘Childhood behavioral disorders and trauma: Predictors of comorbid mental disorders among adult foster care alumni’ 2015, Traumatology 21(3): 119-127
59. Borges, Guilherme; Cherpitel, Cheryl; Orozco, Ricardo; Zemore, Sarah; Wallish, Lynn; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Breslau, Joshua ‘Substance use and cumulative exposure to American society: findings from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border region’, 2016, American Journal of Public Health, 106(1): 119-27. PMCID: PMC4695949
60. Breslau, Joshua; Setodji, Claude M.; Vaughan, Christine A. ‘Is Cohesion Within Military Units Associated with Post-Deployment Behavioral and Mental Health Outcomes?’ 2016, Journal of Affective Disorders, 198: 102-107, doi:10.1016/j.jad.2016.03.053 PMID: 27011365
61. Breslau, Joshua; Yu, Hao; Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela; Leckman-Westin, Emily; Scharf, Deborah M.; Connor, Kathryn L.; Finnerty, Molly T. ‘Enrollment of Specialty Mental Health Clinics in a State Medicaid Program to Promote General Medical Services’, 2016 Psychiatric Services PMCID: PMC5205557
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62. Breslau, Joshua; Stein Bradley D.; Han, Bing; Shelton, Shoshana; Yu, Hao. ‘Impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Dependent Coverage Expansion on the Health Care and Health Status of Young Adults: What Do We Know So Far?’ Medical Care Research and Review, 2017 PMCID: PMC5696114
63. Ramanuj, Parashar; Strathdee, Geraldine; Breslau, Joshua; Pincus, Harold. ‘Carrots and Sticks on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic: shared learning from integration efforts for people with serious mental illness in England’ 2017, Psychiatric Services PMID: 27974005
64. Breslau, Joshua; Han, Bing; Stein, Bradley D.; Burns, Rachel M.; Yu, Hao. ‘Did the Affordable Care Act’s Dependent Coverage Expansion Affect Race/Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage?’ Health Services Research, 2017 PMID: 28593643
65. Breslau, Joshua; Gilman, Stephen; Stein, Bradley D.; Ruder, Teague; Gmelin, Theresa; Miller, Elizabeth. ‘Sex Differences in Recent First Onset Depression in an Epidemiological Sample of Adolescents’ Translational Psychiatry 2017 May; 7(5): e1139 PMCID: PMC5534940
66. Breslau, Joshua; Cefalu, Matthew; Wong, Eunice; Burnam, Audrey; Hunter, Gerald, Florez, Karen, Collins, Rebecca. ‘Racial/ethnic differences in perception of need for mental health treatment in a US national sample’ Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2017 Aug;52(8):929-937 PMCID: PMC5534379
67. Breslau, Joshua ; Yu, Hao; Han, Bing; Pacula, Rosalie L.; Burns, Rachel M.; Stein, Bradley D. ‘Did the Dependent Coverage Expansion Increase Risky Substance Use Among Young Adults?’ Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2017:178 p.556-561 PMCID: PMC5584585
68. Breslau, Joshua; Wong, Eunice; Burnam, Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew; Roth, Elizabeth; Collins, Rebecca. ‘Associations of Perceived Discrimination with Impaired Functioning in a Population Sample with Psychological Distress’ 2018 Psychiatry PMCID: PMC6284394
69. Breslau Joshua; Leckman-Westin, Emily; Yu, Hao; Han, Bing; Pritam, Riti; Guarasi, Diana; Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela; Scharf, Deborah; Pincus, Harold; Finnerty, Molly. ‘Impact of a Mental Health Based Primary Care Program on Quality of Physical Health Care’ Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 2018: 45: 276-285 PMCID: PMC6443568
70. Cheng, Hui; Kaakarli, Hamza; Breslau, Joshua; Anthony, James. ‘Assessing changes in alcohol use and alcohol use disorder prevalence in the united states: Evidence from national surveys from 2002 through 2014?’ JAMA Psychiatry 2018: 75 p.211-213 PMCID:PMC5838626
71. Connor, Kathryn L.; Breslau, Joshua; Finnerty, Molly T.; Leckman-Westin, Emily; Pritam, Riti;Yu, Hao. ‘Integrating physical health: What were the costs to behavioral health care clinics?’ General Hospital Psychiatry 2018:51 p.41-45 PMCID: PMC5869100
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72. Breslau, Joshua; Leckman-Westin, Emily; Han, Bing; Pritam, Riti; Guarasi, Diana; Horvitz- Lennon, Marcela; Scharf, Deborah M.; Finnerty, Molly; Yu, Hao. ‘Impact of a mental health based primary care program on emergency department visits and inpatient stays’ General Hospital Psychiatry, 2018: 52 p.8-13 PMCID: PMC5936476
73. Ramanuj, Parashar; Talley, Rachel; Breslau, Joshua; Wang, Scarlett; Pincus, Harold ‘Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care Services for People with Serious Mental Illness: a qualitative systems analysis of integration in New York’ Community Mental Health Journal PMCID: PMC6110986
74. Wong, Eunice; Collins, Rebecca; Breslau, Joshua; Burnam, Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew; Roth, Elizabeth. ‘Differential Association of Stigma with Perceived Need and Mental Health Service Use’ Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease PMCID: PMC5980757
75. Breslau, Joshua; Stein, Bradley D.; Burns, Rachel M.; Collins, Rebecca; Han, Bing; Yu, Hao; Mojtabai, Ramin. ‘Examining Contradictory Evidence on Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceived Need for Behavioral Health Treatment’ International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research PMCID: PMC6279592
76. Breslau, Joshua; Elliott, Marc N.; Haviland, Amelia M.; Klein, David J.; Dembosky, Jacob W.; Adams, John L.; Gaillot, Sarah; Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela; Schneider, Eric C. ‘Racial/Ethnic Differences in Attainment of Behavioral Health Quality Measures in Medicare Advantage Plans’ Health Affairs, 2018 37:10: 1685-1692 PMID: 30273044
77. Breslau, Joshua; Stein, Bradley D.; Yu, Hao; Burns, Rachel; Han, Bing. ‘Impacts of the Dependent Care Expansion on the Allocation of Mental Health Care’ Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Health Services Research 2019 46(1) 82-90 PMCID: PMC6328320
78. Wong, Eunice; Collins, Rebecca; Breslau, Joshua; Burnam, Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew; Roth, Elizabeth ‘Associations Between Provider Communication and Personal Recovery Outcomes’ BMC Psychiatry, 2019 19 (102)
79. Breslau, Joshua; Pritam, Riti; Guarasi, Diana; Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela; Finnerty, Molly; Yu, Hao; Leckman-Westin, Emily ‘Predictors of Receipt of Physical Health Services in Mental Health Clinics’ Community Mental Health Journal, In Press
80. Collins, Rebecca; Wong, Eunice; Breslau, Joshua; Burnam, Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew, Roth, Elizabeth. ‘Evidence Supports Social Marketing of Mental Health Treatment: California’s Mental Illness Stigma Reduction Campaign’ American Journal of Public Health PMCID: PMC6595511
81. McBain, Ryan K; Collins, Rebecca L; Wong, Eunice C; Breslau, Joshua; Cefalu, Matthew S; Roth, Elizabeth; Burnam, M Audrey. ‘Mental Health Services and Personal Recovery in California: A Population-based Analysis’ Psychiatric Services, In Press
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82. Breslau, Joshua; Wong, Eunice C.; Burnam, M. Audrey; McBain, Ryan K.; Cefalu, Matthew; Beckman, Robin; Collins, Rebecca L. ‘Distress, Impairment, and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceived Need for Mental Health Treatment in a Nationally Representative Sample’ Psychiatry 2020 83(2) 149-160
83. Breslau, Joshua; Han, Bing; Lai, Julie, Yu, Hao. ‘Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Utilization of Mental Health Care’ Medical Care 2020 58:9 757-762 PMCID: PMC7483910
84. Schuler, Megan S.; Prince, Dana M.; Breslau, Joshua; Collins, Rebecca L. ‘Substance Use Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity: Results from the 2015–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health’ LGBT Health 7(6) 283-291
85. Amy L. Shearer, Elizabeth Roth, Mathew S. Cefalu, Joshua Breslau, Ryan K. McBain, Eunice C. Wong, M. Audrey Burnam, Rebecca L. Collins, ‘Contact With Persons With Mental Illness and Willingness to Live Next Door to Them: Two Waves of a California Survey of Adults’ In Press, Psychiatric Services
86. Breslau, Joshua; Leckman-Westin, Emily; Han, Bing; Guarasi, Diana; Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela; Pritam, Riti; Finnerty, Molly. ‘Providing Health Physicals and/or Health Monitoring Services in Mental Health Clinics: Impact on Laboratory Screening and Monitoring for High Risk Populations’ Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 2021 48(2) 278-289
87. McBain, Ryan K.; Wong, Eunice C.; Breslau, Joshua; Shearer, Amy L.; Cefalu, Matthew S; Roth, Elizabeth; Burnam, M. Audrey; Collins, Rebecca L. ‘State medical marijuana laws, cannabis use and cannabis use disorder among adults with elevated psychological distress’ In Press, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
88. Breslau, Joshua; Mcbain, Ryan K.; Wong, Eunice C.; Burname, M. Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew S.; Collins, Rebecca L. ‘A randomized test of the effect of medical vs lay idiom on assessment of perceived mental health condition in the United States’ Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2020 29(e172)
89. Wong, Eunice C.; Collins, Rebecca L.; McBain, Ryan; Breslau, Joshua; Burnam, M. Audrey; Cefalu, Matthew S.; Roth, Elizabeth ‘Racial-Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Stigma and Changes Over the Course of a California Statewide Campaign’ In Press Psychological Services
90. Fischer, Shira, Uscher-Pines, Lori, Breslau, Joshua ‘The Transition to Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a National Sample of Patients’ Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021 36(3) 849-851
91. Breslau, Joshua; Finucane, Melissa L.; Locker, Alicia R.; Baird, Matthew; Roth, Elizabeth; Collins, Rebecca L. ‘A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Distress in the United States Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic’ Preventive Medicine 2021 143 (1)
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92. McGinty EE, Pressrkeischer R, Breslau J, Brown J, Domino M, Druss B, Horvitz-Lennon M, Murphy K, Pincus H, Daumit GL. Improving physical health among people with serious mental illness: The role of the specialty mental health sector. Psychiatric Services, In Press.
93. Schuler, Megan S.; Burns, Rachel M.; Roth, Elizabeth; Gilman, Stephen E.; Breslau, Joshua ‘Associations between depression subtype and functional impairment and treatment utilization in a national sample of adolescents’ Journal of Affective Disorders, In Press
94. Locker, Alicia R.; Finucane, Melissa L.; Roth, Elizabeth; Carman, Katherine G.; Breslau, Joshua ‘Nationally Representative Sample Shows an Increase in Domestic Conflict since the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness In Press.
Peer Reviewed Reports
1. Breslau, Joshua. ‘Health in Childhood and Adolescence and High School Dropout’ California Dropout Research Project Report #17, March 2010.
2. Breslau, Joshua, Stranges, Elizabeth, Gladden, Matthew, Wong, Herbert, Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Hospital Stays for All-Terrain-Vehicle-Related Injuries, 2009, AHRQ, HCUP Statistical Brief #130, May 2012.
3. Werber, Laura, Schaefer, Agnes Gereben, Osilla, Karen Chan, Wilke, Elizabeth, Wong, Annie, Breslau, Joshua, Kitchens, Karin E., Support for the 21st Century Reserve Force: Insights to Facilitate Sucesful Reintegration for Citizen Warriors and Their Families, Santa Monica, Calif: RAND Corporation, RR-206-OSD, August 2013.
4. Scharf, Deborah M., Breslau, Joshua, Schmidt, John W., Kusuke, Daniela, Staplefoote, B. Lynette, Pincus, Harold Alan, An Examination of New York State’s Integrated Primary and Mental Health Care Services for Adults with Serious Mental Illness, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-670-NYSHF, September 2014.
5. Brown, Ryan Andrew, Marshall, Grant N., Breslau, Joshua, Farris, Coreen, Osilla, Karen Chan, Pincus, Harold Alan, Ruder, Teague, Voorhies, Phoenix, Barnes-Proby, Dionne, Pfrommer, Katherine, Miyashiro, Lisa, Rana, Yashodhara, Adamson, David M., Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care for Remote Service Members and Their Families: Executive Summary, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-578/1-OSD, 2015.
6. Breslau, Joshua, Aharoni, Pedersen, Eric, Miller, Laura L, A Review of Research on Problematic Internet Use and Well-being: With Recommendations for the U.S. Airforce, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-849-AF, 2015.
7. Vaughan, Christine Anne, Farmer, Carrie M., Breslau, Joshua, Burnette, Crystal, Evaluation of the Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) Program, Santa Monica, CA, RAND Corporation, RR-562-OSD, 2015.
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Peer Reviewed Reports (cont.)
8. Breslau, Joshua, Engle, Charles C. Information and Communication Technologies in Behavioral Health A Literature Review with Recommendations for the Air Force, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-1054-AF, 2015.
9. Breslau, Joshua Brown, Ryan Andrew, Behavioral health and service use among civilian wives of service members and veterans : evidence from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, RR-932-OSD, 2015.
10. Breslau, Joshua, Ashwood, J. Scott, Kase, Courtney Ann, Pincus, Harold Alan, Lovejoy, Susan L.. Evaluation design recommendations for the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic demonstration program, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, RR-1439- ASPEC, 2016.
11. Derose, Kathryn Pitkin, Mendel, Peter, Kanouse, David E., Bluthenthal, Ricky N., Werber, Laura, Hawes-Dawson, Jennifer, Mata, Michael A., Oden, Clyde W., Dominguez, Blanca X., Williams, Malcolm V., Palar, Kartika, Corbin, Dennis E., Bogart, Laura M., Felton, Alexandria, Collins, Deborah Owens, Flórez, Karen R., Griffin, Beth Ann, Haas, Ann C., Breslau, Joshua, Stucky, Brian D., Aunon, Frances M., The role of urban congregations in addressing HIV, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, RB-9941, 2017.
12. Eberhart, Nicole K.; Burnam, M. Audrey; Seelam, Rachana; Bogdan, Olena; Breslau, Joshua (2018). Monitoring Californians' mental health : population surveillance reveals gender, racial/ethnic, age, and regional disparities. Santa Monica, CA, RAND Corporation, RR-2060-CMHSA
13. Breslau, Joshua; McBain, Ryan K.; Simmons, Molly (2019) Identifying Safety-Net Resources at Health Centers to Prevent Infectious Disease Transmission Resulting from the Opioid Epidemic. Santa Monica, CA RAND Corporation
14. Breslau, Joshua; Sorbero, Mark J.; Kusuke, Daniela; Yu, Hao; Scharf, Deborah M.; Schmidt Hackbarth, Nicole; Pincus, Harold Alan. (2019). PRIMARY AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Impacts on Health Care Utilization, Cost, and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy
15. Ashwood, J. Scott; Osilla, Karen C.; DeYoreo, Maria; Breslau, Joshua; Ringel, Jeanne S.; Montemayor, Cheryl K.; Shahidinia, Nima; Adamson, David M.; Chamberlin, Margaret; Burnam, M. Audrey (2019) Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Homelessness Grant Formulas. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2454.html.
16. Siegwart, Allison W.; Miller, Rachel; Little, Jasmine; Brown, Jonathan; Kase, Courtney, Breslau, Joshua; Dunbar, Michael ‘Implementation Findings from the National Evaluation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration’ Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.(2020) Mathematica Policy Research
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Peer Reviewed Reports (cont.)
17. Breslau, Joshua; Briscombe, Brian; Dunbar, Michael; Kase, Courtney; Brown, Jonathan; Siegwarth, Allison W.; Miller, Rachel ‘Preliminary Cost And Quality Findings From The National Evaluation Of The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration’ Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.(2020) Mathematica Policy Research
18. Meadows, Sarah O., Charles C. Engel, Rebecca L. Collins, Robin L. Beckman, Joshua Breslau, Erika Litvin Bloom, Michael Stephen Dunbar, et al. 2018 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS) : Results for the Active Component. Edited by Forces National Defense Research Institute, Center Resources Policy, Defense United States. Office of the Secretary of Department of Defense; RAND Corporation. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation RR-4222-OSD 2021
19. Meadows, Sarah O., Charles C. Engel, Rebecca L. Collins, Robin L. Beckman, Joshua Breslau, Erika Litvin Bloom, Michael Stephen Dunbar, et al. 2018 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS) : Results for the Reserve Component. Edited by Forces National Defense Research Institute, Center Resources Policy, RAND Corporation and Office of the Secretary of Department of Defense. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation RR-4228-OSD 2021
20. McBain, Ryan K., Nicole K. Eberhart, Joshua Breslau, Lori Frank, M. Audrey Burnam, Vishnupriya Kareddy, and Molly M. Simmons. How to Transform the U.S. Mental Health System: Evidence-Based Recommendations. RAND Corporation, 2021. doi:10.7249/RRA889-1.
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Book Chapters
1. Breslau, Joshua; Miller, Elizabeth, Jin, Robert, Sampson, Nancy A.; Alonso, Jordi, Andrade, Laura Helena; Bromet, Evelyn; de Girolamo, Giovanni; Demyttenaere, Koen; Fayyad, John; Fukao, Akira; Gălăon, Mihaela; Gureje, Oye; He, Yanling; Hinkov, Hristo Ruskov; Hu, Chiyi; Kovess-Masfety, Viviane; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Ormel, Johan; Posada-Villa, José; Scott, Kate M.; Kessler, Ronald C. ‘Mental Disorders, Marriage and Divorce in the World Mental Health Surveys’ in The Burdens of Mental Disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. WHO WMH Surveys Series Volume IV. J. Alonso, S. Chatterji, & Y He (Eds.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013
2. Miller, Elizabeth; Breslau, Joshua. ‘Premarital Mental Disorders and Risk for Physical Violence in Marriage’ Surveys’ in The Burdens of Mental Disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. WHO WMH Surveys Series Volume IV. J. Alonso, S. Chatterji, & Y He (Eds.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013
3. Tsang, Adley; Lee, Sing; Breslau, Joshua. ‘Associations between mental disorders and early termination of education in the World Mental Health Surveys’ in The Burdens of Mental Disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. WHO WMH Surveys Series Volume IV. J. Alonso, S. Chatterji, & Y He (Eds.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013
4. Borges, Guilherme; Mondragon, Liliana; Breslau, Joshua; ‘Suicidal behavior among Hispanic immigrants in the United States’ in "Immigration and Mental Health: Stress, Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior Among Immigrants and Refuges." Leo Sher and Alexander Vilens eds. Nova Science Publishers Incorporated.
5. Posada-Villa, Jose; Rodríguez, Marcela: Duque, Patricia: Garzón, Alexandra; Aguilar- Gaxiola, Sergio; Breslau, Joshua ‘Mental Disorders in Colombia: Results from the World Mental Health Survey in Psychiatric Disorders around the World: The WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative, Ronald C. Kesser ed. Cambridge University Press,
6. Borges, Guilherme; Benjet, Corina; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Zambrano, Joaquin; Breslau, Joshua; Posada, Jose; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio ‘Descriptive epidemiology of depression in Latin America and Hispanics in the US: Preliminary results from the World Mental Health surveys’ in Depression in Latinos: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola and Thomas Gulotta eds. Springer, 2008
7. Wharton, Robert, Miller, Elizabeth, Breslau, Joshua, Levine, Karen, Greenspan, Stanley ‘Children with Special Needs in Bilingual Families: A Developmental Approach to Language Recommendations’ Clinical Practice Guidelines, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, 2000 p.123-155
8. Goldfinger, Stephen, Shutt, Russell et al ‘Housing Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill: Evolving Consumer Households’ in Mentally Ill and Homeless: Special Programs for Special Needs, William Breakey and James Thompson Eds. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 1997
9. Breslau, Joshua ‘An Anthropologist’s Perspective on the Psychiatric Response to the Great Hanshin Earthquake” (Jinruigakusha kara Mita Hanshin Daishinsai e no Seishin Igakuteki no Outou) in Kinou no gotoku: Saiaku no Toshi no Kioku ed. Hisao Nakai, Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo. 1996 (In Japanese, translated by Hisao Nakai)
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Book Reviews
Migration and Mental Health, Dinesh Bhugra, and Susham Gupta eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2011. Reviewed in Psychological Medicine
Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann, Alfred A..Knopf, New York, 2000.Reviewed in American Ethnologist 2001 28(3), p.710
Multicultural Japan: From Paleolithic to Postmodern, Denoon, Hudson, McCormack, and Tessa-Suzuki eds. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies, November 1998; Vol. 57:4.
Completed Research Projects
Influence of a Landmark Stigma Reduction Initiative on Mental Illness Treatment-Seeking Co-Investigator (PI: Rebecca Collins) NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (R01 MH104381) 9/2016-6/2020 Examines the impact of a California effort to reduce stigma related to mental illness.
Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS) Co-Investigator (PI: Charles Engel, Sarah Meadows) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 4/2017-7/2020 Survey of health behaviors, including mental health and substance use, among active duty and reserve members of the U.S Armed Forces.
Mental Health Landscape in America Co-Principal Investigator 11/2019-12/2020 OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICALS Analysis of policy options for addressing critical failures of mental health care delivery systems in the United States.
Integrating physical and mental care for adults with serious mental illness Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Hao Yu) NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (R01 MH102379) 9/2015-5/2019 Examines the quality and costs of programs that integrate primary care services into specialty mental health clinics.
Identifying Safety-Net Resources and Best Practices at Health Centers to Prevent Infectious Disease Transmission Resulting from the Opioid Epidemic Principal Investigator ASST SECRETARY FOR PLANNING & EVALUATION 4/2018-9/2018 Study of policy challenges that community health centers in high risk counties face in preventing injection drug use related infectious diseases in the context of the opioid epidemic.
Distribution of Funds under SAMHSA Block Grants Co-Investigator (PI: J Scott Ashwood, Audrey Burnam) ASST SECRETARY FOR PLANNING & EVALUATION 9/2017-9/2018 Research to support revision of the formulas for distribution of federal block grant funds.
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Completed Research Projects (cont.)
Evaluation of the SAMHSA Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Grant Program Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Deborah Scharf, Audrey Burnam) DEPT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES 9/2010-9/2016 Evaluation of SAMHSA’s Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration grant program.
Understanding Problematic Internet Use, and Using Information and Communication Technologies to Enhance Mental Health Support and Treatment Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Laura Miller, Charles Engel) US AIR FORCE 10/2013-9/2014 Assist the Air Force in addressing unhealthy Internet use and understanding how information and communication technologies can be used to enhance mental health support and treatment.
SHARP: Improving Guidance for Commanders and Identifying System Improvements Co-Investigator (PI: Margaret Harrell, Laura Werber) US ARMY 9/2013-1-2015 Identify improvements to policy, practice, and guidance provided to Army personnel, especially small unit leaders, regarding their responsibilities and actions following a sexual assault.
New Models of Integrated Primary and Behavioral Healthcare for Persons with Serious Mental Illness in New York State Co-Investigator (PI: Deborah Scharf) NEW YORK STATE HEALTH FOUNDATION 5/2013-10/2014 Qualitative evaluation of existing models of integrated care for persons with serious mental illness being used in New York State.
Metaphor Program Thematic Analysis Task Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: David Kennedy, Ryan Brown) OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 3/2013-12/2014 Qualiative study of cultural differences and contrasting worldviews regarding several key issues and events of national interest involving the U.S. and Mexico, Iran, and Russia.
Availability and Efficacy of Military-Culture Appropriate Psychological Health Treatment for Geographically Distant Service Members and Their Families Co-Investigator (PI: Grant Marshall, Ryan Brown) OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 9/2012-3/2015 To document the extent to which service members and families are geographically distant from military-appropriate psychological care and analyze care solutions for these populations.
Improving Reintegration Support for Reserve Component Co-Investigator (PI: Agnes Schaefer, Laura Werber) OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 3/2012-4/2013 To identify characteristics, resources and strategies associated with successful reintegration for reserve component service members and their families.
Mental Health and Mexico-U.S. Migration Principal Investigator NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (R01 MH082023) 6/2011-12/2012 Examines the impact of migration on mental health and substance use on both sides of the Mexico-US border in collaboration with the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico City.
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Completed Research Projects (cont.)
Innovative Practices for Supporting Psychological Health and TBI Co-Investigator (PI: Carrie Farmer) OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 8/2010-9/2015 To identify and evaluate the effectiveness of Department of Defense programs designed to support psychological health (PH) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
Health and High School Dropout: A Literature Review Co-Investigator (PI: Russell Rumberger) Hewlett Foundation 6/2009-5/2010 Literature review on the contribution of poor health to failure to complete high school.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and High School Dropout Principal Investigator Children’s Miracle Network 1/2008-12/2008 Examine the impact of attention deficit hyperactiviety disorder on high school dropout.
Ethnic Disadvantage and Psychiatric Morbidity Principal Investigator (Mentor: Ronald Kessler) 6/2002-6/2007 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (K01 MH066057) A mentored career development award to conduct epidemiological studies of the relationship between ethnicity and psychiatric disorders.
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Professional Talks
November 2011 ‘Mexico-US Migration and Conduct Disorder’ University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry
November 2011 ‘Mexico-US Migration and Changes in Use of Mental Health Service Use’ University of Pittsburgh
January 2011 ‘Migration and Mental Health: The Mexico-US Migration and Mental Health Study’ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica
July 2010 ‘Mental Disorders, Marriage and Divorce in the World Mental Health Surveys’, Annual Meeting of the World Mental Health Survey Consortium, Lisbon, Portugal
January 2010 “Early Smoking and High School Dropout: What’s the Connection?” National Institute of Drug Abuse, Webinar
September 2009 “Early Onset Psychiatric Disorders and Educational Attainment” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
April 2009 “Migration, Alcohol and Drugs: Intergenerational Change in Use, Abuse, and Dependence in the United States” 12th Congress of the International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vienna, Austria.
March 2009 “Patterns of Substsance Use, Abuse and Dependence among Immigrant Groups in the US” Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California
December 2008 “Childhood Adversities and Adolescent Dating Violence: Evidence from a US National Survey” Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
June 2007 “Epidemiological Research on Immigration and Mental Health in the United States” International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy
May 2007 “Immigration to the US and Risk for Psychiatric Disorders” Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan
May 2007 “Is Moving to the US Bad for your Mental Health: Recent Epidemiological Research on Immigration and Risk for Psychiatric Disorders” Grand Rounds,Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
March 2007 “Immigration and Mental Health” Center for Health Services Research, University of California, Davis
January 2007 “Measuring Disparities” Annual conference of the UC Davis Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care ‘From Research to Policy: Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Care’
November 2006 “Back to the Local in Studies of Global Psychiatry” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California
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Professional Talks (cont.)
November 2005 “Mexico-US Migration and Risk for Substance Use Disorders: Evidence from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys” Mexico-US Binational Drug Demand Reduction Conference, Mexico City
April 2005 “Race-Ethnic Differences in Psychiatric Morbidity: The Role of Migration” Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
March 2005 “Race-Ethnic Differences in Psychiatric Morbidity in the United States: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication” Psychiatric Epidemiology Colloquiuum, Harvard School of Public Health
January 2005 “An Item Response Theory Model for Differential Item Functioning in the Assessment of Depression across Race-Ethnic Groups in the National Comorbidity Survey” Boston University, Center for International Health
October 2004 “Policy Implications of the World Mental Health Survey in the United States” 18th World Congress of the World Association for Social Psychiatry, Kobe, Japan
November 2002 “Integrating Anthropological and Epidemiological Research on Migrant Health” University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
November 2002 “Apprenticeship and Global Institutions: Learning Psychiatry in Japan” Institute for Ethnology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
November 2001 “Cultures of Trauma: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the International Health Arena” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC
May 2001 “Psychiatrist as Other: Familiar Locations in Foreign Lands” Conference of the NIMH Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services Research, Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine
December 1999 “The Training of Psychiatrists in Japan” The Fourth Annual Conference on Health and Social Change in Asia, Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine November 1999 “The Ethnography of Apprenticeship and the Globalization of Culture” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.
March 1998 “The Ethics of Non-Disclosure in Japanese Psychiatry” Symposium on ‘Practicing Medicine in Asia: Ethical Challenges’, Harvard Medical School
February 1998 “Psychiatry as a Meeting Ground for Traditional Chinese and Bio- Medicines” Asia Circle on Social Experience, Harvard University, Cambridge.
November 1997 “Re-Modernizing Japanese Psychiatry: Care for the ‘Kokoro’ after the Kobe Earthquake” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.
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Professional Talks (cont.)
November 1996 “Traumatic Events and Non-Events: Studying the New Disaster Psychology Cross-Culturally” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
September 1996 “The Place of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Psychiatric Response to the Kobe Earthquake” Third International Conference on Health Behavioral Sciences, Tokyo.
March 1994 "Bureaucratic Subversions?: Empowerment in a Community Mental Health Project for Homeless Mentally Ill Adults"; Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, Cambridge.
December 1992 "Practicing Empowerment: Autonomy in a Community Mental Health Program for the Homeless Mentally Ill"; with Tara AvRuskin, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
May 1990 "Data-based Capitation Rates for Public Mental Health"; with Barbara Dickey PhD, Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, New York.
Fellowships
2008 Gifford Center for Population Studies Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Davis,
1999 NIMH Post-Doctoral Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1997 Cora Du Bois Dissertation Fellowship, Cora Du Bois Charitable Trust
1996 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
1995 Graduate Enhancement Fellowship, National Security Education Program
1995 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University
1994 Summer Language Fellowship, Mellon Foundation
1994 Summer Language Fellowship, Foreign Language and Area Studies
1993 NIMH Pre-Doctoral Training Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
1991 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1989 Scholar's Program Fellowship, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
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Grant Review Committees
October 2015 NIH Ad Hoc Study Section Member, Behavioral Genetics, Epidemiology Study Section (BGES)
April 2017 CDC Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee Member, RFA-DP-17-003 Natural Experiments of Policy and Built Environment Impact on Diabetes Risk
June 2017 NIH Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee Member, PAR-16-221/222 Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities
October 2017 NIH Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee Member, PAR-16-354 Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50)
October 2017 NIH Ad Hoc Study Section Member, Social Sciences and Population Study Section-B (SSPB)
March 2018 NIH Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee Member, 2018/05 ZMH1 ERB-I (01) S
July 2018 NIH Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee Member, Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) ZRG1 HDM-Y (56) R
February 2019 NIH Ad Hoc Study Section Member, Mental Health Services Research Commmittee (SERV)
November 2019-present NIH Study Section Member, Mental Health Services Research Commmittee (SERV)
Teaching and Thesis Advising
2003 Teaching Assistant, ‘Interview Methods in Psychiatric Epidemiology’ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1999 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
1999 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
1998 Head Teaching Fellow, Core Program, Harvard College
1998 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
1992-1999 Teaching Assistant, ‘Language and Culture’ Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
1992 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
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Other Work Experience
1988-90 Program Evaluation Coordinator, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1987-1988 Counselor, Tri-City Community Mental Health Center, Malden, Massachusetts
1986 Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Brecksville, Ohio
1985-1986 Research Assistant, Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago
1984 Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital
Membership in Professional Organizations
2000-Present American Psychopathological Association
1990-2006 American Anthropological Association
Manuscript Reviews
American Ethnologist Archives of General Psychiatry Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry Drug and Alcohol Dependence Journal of Affective Disorders Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of Health and Social Behavior Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Psychological Medicine Social Science and Medicine American Journal of Psychiatry Clinical Epidemiology American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Healthcare Psychiatric Services Journal of Psychiatric Research
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