Monitoring and Surveillance of Behavioral Health in the Context of Public Health Emergencies
A Toolkit for Public Health Officials
Acknowledgments, Credits, and Contributors
Acknowledgments
This toolkit was funded by the Office of Readiness and Response of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under contract number 75D30119C06926 and prepared by the RAND Corporation. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors gratefully acknowledge the members of the project’s Technical Expert Panel (see “Contributors”) who provided valuable insights at multiple points during this work; the subject-matter experts and public health, behavioral health, and emergency management practitioners who generously shared their input; Lareina La Flair and RAND colleagues Andrea Phillips, Hilary Peterson, Aaron Lang, Liisa Hiatt, Laurie Martin, Steve Oshiro, Dori Walker, Rick Penn-Kraus, Benjamin Miller, Regina Shih, Ninna Gudgell, Anita Chandra, Babitha Balan, Melissa Bauman, Arwen Bicknell, Lee Floyd, Heather McCracken, Shawna Templeton, Rajeev Ramchand, and Kathryn Edwards.
Credits
- Joie D. Acosta
- Laura J. Faherty
- Rachel K. Landis
- Lawrence Baker
- Shira H. Fischer
- Priya Gandhi
- Jonathan S. Levin
- Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar
- Margaret Weden
- Lynsay Ayer
Contributors
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Mary Leinhos
- Sara Vagi
- Robyn Cree
- Amy Wolkin
- Amy Schnall
- Keri Lubell
- Lakshmi Radhakrishnan
- Karl Soetebier
- Rebecca Leeb
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Michael King
Technical Expert Panel
- Brian Hepburn, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
- David Mancuso, Washington State Research and Data Analysis Division
- Susan Borja, NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) Dimensional Traumatic Stress Research Program
- Katrina Gay, National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Sajit Joseph, American Red Cross
- Benjamin Miller, Independent Consultant
- Melissa Brymer, UCLA–Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
- Michael Schoenbaum, National Institute of Mental Health
- Rachel Kaul, Director of the Howard C. Liebengood Center for Wellness
- Rob Morrison, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc.
Social and Behavioral Policy Program
RAND Social and Economic Well-Being is a division of the RAND Corporation that seeks to actively improve the health and social and economic well-being of populations and communities throughout the world. This research was conducted in the Social and Behavioral Policy Program within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being. The program focuses on such topics as risk factors and prevention programs, social safety net programs and other social supports, poverty, aging, disability, child and youth health and well-being, and quality of life, as well as other policy concerns that are influenced by social and behavioral actions and systems that affect well-being. For more information, email sbp@rand.org.
