Dr. Bruce Link is a Co-Director of the Principal Research Core for the Columbia University Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies and member of the Executive Committee. He is a sociologist and psychiatric epidemiologist and professor of Epidemiology and professor of Sociomedical Sciences in Psychiatry at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Link is a research scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute, in addition to his responsibilities at the Mailman School. His interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social epidemiology and he has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma, and discrimination. Currently he is conducting research aimed at understanding health disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, the consequences of social stigma for people with mental illnesses, and the connection between mental illnesses and violent behaviors. He is the director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program, the director of the Center for Violence Research and Prevention and a director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Columbia University.
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Areas of expertise
Epidemiology of mental disorders; violence and mental illness; stigma of mental illness

Selected publications
Link B, Phelan J. (2001) Conceptualizing stigma. Annual Review of Sociology 27: 363-85.
Link BG, Struening EL, Rahav M, Phelan JC, Nuttbrock L. (1997) On stigma and its consequences: evidence from a longitudinal study of men with dual diagnoses of mental illness and substance abuse. J Health Soc Behav 38: 177-90.
Link B, Phelan J, Bresnahan M, Stueve A, Moore R, Susser E. (1995) Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States: new evidence on an old debate. Am J of Orthopsychiatry 65:347-354.
Link B, Susser E, Stueve A, Phelan J, Moore R, Struening E. (1994) Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 84: 1907-12.
Link B, Cullen F, Struening E, Shrout P, Dohrenwend B. (1989) A modified labeling theory approach to mental disorders: an empirical assessment. American Sociological Review 54: 400-23.
Link BG. (1987) Understanding labeling effects in the area of mental disorders: An assessment of the effects of expectations of rejection. Am Sociological Review 52:96-112. [Devaluation-Discrimination Scale]