Faculty

Jan Blustein
M.D. Yale
Ph.D. Public Administration, New York University
(Health Policy & Management)
NYU Wagner School - Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management
Course: Estimating Impacts in Policy Research

Jan Blustein, Associate Professor of Health Policy (and Associate Professor of 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 recently completed a study of health and health care among grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, and is now working on an evaluation of a national initiative to improve inpatient and post-discharge cardiac care in hospitals that disproportionately serve minority Americans. Her work has been published in Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other leading journals. She serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Professor Blustein holds an M.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Wagner School.