Nancy Wolff, Ph.D. (Rutgers University) is a professor and Director in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Public Policy Program. She received her economics training at Iowa State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1985 to 1987. Her research focuses on issues related to measuring the societal costs of interventions for persons with mental illness, designing cost-effectiveness analyses, exploring the effect of insurance design on access to care, and modeling and analyzing intersystem dynamics. Over the past ten years, her research has increasingly focused on the interactions between the mental health and criminal justice systems, and the public policies that influence those interactions. In 1998, she was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy to study the management of mentally disordered offenders in the United Kingdom.

(732) 932-6635	(732) 932-1233	nwolff@ifh.rutgers.edu
Publications by Nancy Wolff

Jeffrey Draine, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), is an associate professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania where he is also affiliated with the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He has an interest in effective community supports and services with people who have psychiatric disability and the role of effective services in interaction with the criminal justice system. For the last 15 years, his work has focused largely on the process of reentering the community from jails and prisons and reducing the risk of return to jails and prisons.

(215) 349-8710	(215) 349-8715	jeffdraine@gmail.com
Publications by Jeffrey Draine

William H. Fisher, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Medical School), is professor of psychiatry and deputy director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Fisher's academic research interests are in the areas of public mental health policy, the interface of the mental health and criminal justice systems, mental health law, psychiatric epidemiology, and research methodology. His career in mental health services research and evaluation includes work with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and consultation with state and federal mental health agencies and systems as well as academically based research. He received the Mental Health Section Award of the American Public Health Association in 2001, and currently is Chair-Elect of the Mental Health Section. He is editor for the Elsevier series Research in Community and Mental Health and author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals, as well as book chapters and monographs.

(508) 856-8711	(508) 856-8700	bill.fisher@umassmed.edu
Publications by William H. Fisher