Dr. Robert Rosenheck is Professor of Psychiatry, Public Health and at the Child Study Center at Yale Medical School where he is also Director of the Division of Mental Health Services and Outcomes Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He is an internationally known mental health service researcher who is leader in cost-effectiveness studies of behavioral health interventions and in monitoring quality of care and other aspects of the performance of large health care system. As Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Northeast Program Evaluation Center he has 19 years of experience evaluating, disseminating, and monitoring innovative mental health programs across the VA system. He is currently responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of: (i) several hundred specialized VA programs providing outreach, rehabilitation and supported housing to homeless veterans with severe mental illness; (ii) a national network of 100 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams for veterans who suffer from severe and persistent mental illnesses; and (iii) a variety of specialized programs for veterans suffering from war-related PTSD.
Since 1994, Dr. Rosenheck has published the annual Mental Health Report Card for the Department of Veterans Affairs (see http://NEPEC.med.VA.gov ) He has been a prime architect of national VA collaborative programs with both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Social Security Administration. He also directed the client-level evaluation of the ACCESS program for homeless mentally ill Americans, for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services, which examined the effect of service systems integration on outcomes for homeless persons with severe mental illness in 18 cities and is currently evaluating the joint HUD-HHS-VA Collaborative Initiative on Chronic Homelessness.
Dr. Rosenheck has published more than 400 scientific papers on topics such as performance evaluation of large mental health systems, mental health quality of care, the causes of homelessness, the organization and financing of mental health services, and the cost-effectiveness of psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments of serious mental illness, homelessness, and PTSD among war veterans.
