Featured Scholar: Justin Blackburn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, HPM Ph.D. Program Director
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
The Economic Burden of Untreated Mental Illness in Indiana: Translating Evidence into Policy
Justin Blackburn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis. He is also the Health Policy Ph.D. Program Director and the Scientific Director Wellbeing Informed by Science and Evidence in Indiana (WISE Indiana), a research partnership between the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA). He earned an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles, served on 27 dissertation research committees, and generated over $2 million in research funding.
Dr. Blackburn's research primarily involves leveraging large administrative data sets to evaluate public health policy and outcomes at the state, local, and national level. He is a frequent collaborator with state and local public health agencies, and has applied methodologically innovative approaches to evaluate important public health topics including dental health services and outcomes, long-term care policy and outcomes, Medicaid and CHIP coverage, and measuring health care quality. In a new study, Dr. Blackburn and his co-researchers, revealed the economic burden of untreated mental illness in Indiana, which results in $4.2 billion spent annually. Dr. Blackburn's use of data to inform health policies for the benefit of community members is another excellent example of how IU Indianapolis's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With many scholarly articles contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Blackburn has made research knowledge available to researchers, students, and readers around the world.
Mills CA, Yeager VA, Unroe KT, Holmes A, Blackburn J. The impact of rural general hospital closures on communities-A systematic review of the literature. J Rural Health. Published online November 20, 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38663
Taylor HL, Menachemi N, Gilbert A, Chaudhary J, Blackburn J. Economic Burden Associated With Untreated Mental Illness in Indiana. JAMA Health Forum. 2023;4(10):e233535. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38652
Ellis Hilts K, Gibson PJ, Blackburn J, Yeager VA, Halverson PK, Menachemi N. Institutional factors associated with hospital partnerships for population health: A pooled cross-sectional analysis. Health Care Manage Rev. 2022;47(3):254-262. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38657
Wiley KK, Mendonca E, Blackburn J, Menachemi N, Groot M, Vest JR. Quantifying Electronic Health Record Data Quality in Telehealth and Office-Based Diabetes Care. Appl Clin Inform. 2022;13(5):1172-1180. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38656
Hilts KE, Yeager VA, Gibson PJ, Halverson PK, Blackburn J, Menachemi N. Hospital Partnerships for Population Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature. J Healthc Manag. 2021;66(3):170-198. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38666
Albright KC, Huang L, Blackburn J, et al. Racial differences in recurrent ischemic stroke risk and recurrent stroke case fatality. Neurology. 2018;91(19):e1741-e1750. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38660
Aswani MS, Kilgore ML, Becker DJ, Redden DT, Sen B, Blackburn J. Differential Impact of Hospital and Community Factors on Medicare Readmission Penalties. Health Serv Res. 2018;53(6):4416-4436. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/38661
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