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Do Not Use for Proposals 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. 1 Joshua Breslau Curriculum Vitae 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. 2 Joshua Breslau Curriculum Vitae 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 3 Joshua Breslau Curriculum Vitae Peer Reviewed Publications (cont.) 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 4 Joshua Breslau Curriculum Vitae Peer Reviewed Publications (cont.) 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,
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