NYU Wagner

Jan Blustein, Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, teaches courses in statistics, program evaluation, and research methods. Her own research focuses on the dynamics underlying differences in health and health care among older Americans with chronic illnesses. Professor Blustein has been the principal investigator in studies of the impact of cardiac service availability on service use, and on the relationship between the Medicare benefit and health service equity. She is now engaged in an evaluation of a national initiative to improve inpatient and post-discharge cardiac care in hospitals that disproportionately serve minority Americans. Her research has been published in Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other leading journals.

At Wagner, Professor Blustein directs the Health Policy and Management MPA program. For the university, she chairs one of the three Institutional Review Boards or IRBs (research ethics boards). She is the founding director of the IRB Initiative, a resource for issues around federal regulation of human subjects research, as it applies to research and education in policy and management, and is a past 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.