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Susan Busch, PhD

Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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Health Policy & Management

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street; Suite 300B

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

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Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Biography

Professor Busch is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research is at the intersection of public policy, behavioral health and health care payment systems. At Yale, she is affiliated with Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, the Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Yale Cancer Center. She currently teaches a course on U.S. Mental Health Policy.

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Education & Training

PhD
Harvard University

Research

Overview

Behavioral health care is often fragmented, underinsured, and subject to numerous access barriers. As a result, patients lack access to evidence-based treatments and face difficulties in finding providers with the required expertise. Our mission is to increase access to behavioral health services thereby improving symptoms and quality of life for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. We conduct research focused on payments to providers that incentivize coordinated and high-quality care, parity in insurance coverage between behavioral health and medical treatments, and the impacts of increased commercialization in behavioral health treatment.

Medical Research Interests

Health Care Economics and Organizations; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Services Research

Public Health Interests

Community Health; Health Care Quality, Efficiency; Health Care Financing; Health Care Management; Health Economics; Health Insurance; Health Policy; Mental Health; Substance Use, Addiction; Health Systems Reform

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Health Policy & Management

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street; Suite 300B

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

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  • 60 College Street

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    Ste 300B

    New Haven, CT 06510