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. 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. Her current work examines the relationship between hospital performance measurement and health service equity. Her research has been published in Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other leading journals.
Professor Blustein is the director of NYU Wagner's Health Program. She also co-directs NYU's NIH-funded Roadmap T32 PhD program in Clinical and Translational Research. 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. 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.
