Dr. Robert Rosenheck is Professor of Psychiatry, Public Health, and Director of the Division of Mental Health Services and Outcomes Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Child Study Center at Yale Medical School. 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 systems. As Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Northeast Program Evaluation Center he has 18 years of experience evaluating, disseminating, and monitoring over 900 innovative mental health programs across the VA system. He 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. He 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 Vietnam veterans.

Areas of expertise
Mental health services research; cost-effectiveness; homeless services; Veterans; PTSD

Selected recent publications
Rosenheck RA and Mares AS. Dissemination of supported employment for homeless veterans with psychiatric and addiction disorders: Two-year client outcomes. Psychiatric Services (in press).

Rosenheck RA, Kasprow W, Frisman LK, Liu-Mares W. (2003) Cost-effectiveness of supported housing for homeless persons with mental illness. Archives of General Psychiatry 60: 940-951.

Rosenheck RA, Lam J, Morrissey JP, Calloway M, Stolar M, Randolph F, Blasinsky M, Johnsen M, Steadman H, Cocozza J, Dennis DD, Goldman HH. (2002) Do efforts to improve service systems integration enhance outcomes for homeless persons with serious mental illness? Evidence from the ACCESS Program. Psychiatric Services 53(8):958-966.

Rosenheck RA, Dennis D. (2001) Time-limited Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for homeless persons with severe mental illness. Archives of General Psychiatry 58(11):1073-1080.

Rosenheck RA, Morrissey J, Lam J, Calloway M, Stolar M, Johnsen M, Randolph F, Blasinsky M, Goldman HH. (2001) Service delivery and community: Social capital, service systems integration, and outcomes among homeless persons with severe mental illness. Health Services Research 36(4):691-710.

Rosenheck RA. (2000) Cost-effectiveness of services for homeless people with mental illness: The application of research to policy and practice. American J of Psychiatry 157(10):1563-1570.