Notes on Contributors

Andrew B. Bindman is an associate professor of medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Bindman is interested in access to care for vulnerable populations, the provision of care in the changing health care marketplace, and the ways in which health policy affects vulnerable populations.

Gina Browne is director of the System-Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization. She is also a professor of nursing, clinical epidemiology, and biostatistiscs at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She recently examined the ways in which the expense strategies of intersectoral services affect vulnerable populations.

Carolyn Byrne is an associate professor of nursing at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her interest in how families deal with mental illness has led her most recently to examine the coping strategies of families when one or more members suffer from depression.

Gabrielle C. Denmead is a managing partner of Denmead Services and Consulting in Germantown, Maryland. As an independent consultant, Ms. Denmead conducts economic and policy-related research on health care delivery and social welfare programs. Recently, she has been looking at substance abuse treatment delivery systems and managed care.

Robert Evans is a professor in the Department of Economics and at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he has been examining economic aspects of health system behavior and determinants of health.

Richard G. Frank is a professor of health economics at the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. His particular areas of interest are the financing of mental health and substance abuse care, the pharmaceutical industry, and physician groups.

Amiram Gafni is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, and he also works for the System-Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization in Hamilton, Ontario. His research interests lie in several areas: economic evaluation of health care programs; the physician-patient encounter; models of consumer health care behavior; and policy analysis in health care.

Kevin M. Gorey is an associate professor in the Social Work Program at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He applies his dual training in epidemiology and social work to study the links between structural factors-health care, social welfare, and educational policies-and the health of individuals and populations. He is currently studying the associations of social, prognostic, and therapeutic factors with cancer care and survival in Canada and the United States.

Dennis McCarty is a human services research professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, and director of the Brandeis/Harvard Research Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse Treatment at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He collaborates with policy makers and members of community-based programs in studying the impact of managed care on the organization, financing, and delivery of substance abuse treatment services.

David Mechanic is the Rene Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Among his current interests are the effects of managed care, patient and public trust in physicians and medical institutions, and the changing organization of mental health services.

Anna Napoles-Springer is a research specialist in the Department of Medicine, University of California, and she is affiliated as well with the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations and the Center on Aging in Diverse Communities in San Francisco. She has conducted studies among Latino populations of culturally appropriate community interventions to promote cancer screening. Among the related topics she has explored are the cultural and language factors that affect the interactions of physicians and Latino patients and the adequacy of health-related measures for poor and ethnically diverse populations.

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable is a professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He conducts research at the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations and the Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, both located at UCSF. Dr. Perez-Stable is a general internist with an interest in preventive care in minority communities; he has studied smoking cessation programs, cancer screening, and hypertension among these populations.

Howard L. Pinderhughes is an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. He is particularly interested in the role played by race, class, and gender in producing health inequality.

Samuel F. Posner is a research psychologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently examining measurement issues in behavioral and epidemiological research, with a particular focus on quality of life and risk factors for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.

Jacqueline Roberts is an associate professor of nursing, clinical epidemiology, and biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her current research is on the effectiveness and efficiency of health services, and she is currently teaching a course entitled “Critical Appraisal of the Research Literature.”

David A. Rochefort is a professor of political science and public administration at Northeastern University in Boston. He is studying mental health reform in the Canadian provinces. The second edition of his book From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care as published by Greenwood Press in 1997.

Noralou P. Roos is codirector of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her research interests cover a range of topics: the role of health care as a determinant of health; population-based analyses of health and health care use; variations in physician practice styles; and the use of administrative data for managing the health care system.

Marsha Rosenthal is a research assistant at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Among her interests are medical sociology and aging, especially the effects of managed care on patient-provider relationships. Most recently, she has been looking at how patients attribute blame under managed care and analyzing their expectations, satisfaction, and degree of trust within that system.

Anita L. Stewart is a professor in residence at the Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco. Lately, she has been studying the quality of interpersonal processes of care, measuring health and health-related concepts in diverse populations, and examining healthy aging and how programs of exercise for older adults can best be promoted.

A. Eugene Washington is a professor and the director of the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Washington is interested in technology assessment, particularly as it relates to women’s health, evidence-based medicine, and quality of care. He recently completed an examination of patient preferences for prenatal diagnostic tests and an assessment of the effectiveness of cervical cancer screening strategies.

Susan Watt is a professor at the School of Social Work, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Her area of primary research interest is health care policy and its impact on disadvantaged groups. Recently, she has been conducting her research under the aegis of the System-Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization, which is funded by the Ministry of Health in the Province of Ontario.

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Volume 77, Issue 3 (pages 415–418)
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00144
Published in 1999