Building Bridges Between Evidence and Policy in Mental Health Services Research: Introducing the Policy Review

Matthew L Goldman1, Marvin S Swartz1, Grayson S Norquist1

  • 1San Francisco Department of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Goldman); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina (Swartz); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Norquist) and Rollins School of Public Health (Druss), Emory University, Atlanta; RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Horvitz-Lennon); Yale National Clinical Scholars Program (Balasuriya) and Department of Psychiatry (Isom), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City (Jorgensen); Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City (Greiner); Indiana Department of Mental Health and Addiction, Indianapolis (Brinkley); Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma City (Hayes); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City (Dixon).

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