Jan Blustein
Professor of Health Policy and Professor of Medicine

Jan Blustein, Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, teaches courses in statistics, program evaluation, and research methods at the Wagner School.

Health service equity, chronic illness, and the Medicare program are some of her longstanding interests.  Her recent research looks at how state and federal mandates to measure hospital performance (public reporting, pay-for-performance) will affect health service equity.  Her work has been published in Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, PLoS Medicine, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other leading journals.

Professor Blustein co-directs NYU's NIH-funded TL1 PhD program in Clinical and Translational Research.  Along with colleagues at NYU's School of Medicine, she is developing a new body of work on the relationship between environmental exposures and childhood obesity. 

She is the founding director of the IRB Initiative, a resource for issues around federal regulation of social science research. Professor Blustein previously served as chair of the New York University IRB (UCAIHS), and co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Dr. Blustein holds an MD degree from the Yale School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from NYU Wagner.











Contact Details

jan.blustein@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7427
Puck Building, Room 3040
Office Hours: Wednesdays 4:30 - 5:30 -- starting second week of term
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Links

  • Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine interviews Dr. Blustein here

Areas of Expertise

  • Health Management
  • Health Policy
  • Inequality
  • Law & Regulation
  • Management
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Race, Class, & Diversity
  • Social Policy