JEFFREY C. MERRILL
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Mr. Merrill is currently the University Research
Professor and Professor of Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School. His area of
specialization involves effectiveness and cost studies looking at substance
abuse prevention and treatment interventions in real world settings. He is currently involved in a number of studies looking at
the issues of the prevention of substance abuse and related risk behaviors
in children and adolescents. These
include the analysis of secondary and epidemiologic data related to risk
behaviors among youth, as well as direct involvement in a number of
communities as part of an effort to plan comprehensive prevention
strategies. Mr. Merrill has
also been involved in a number of projects looking at the diversion of
substance abusing criminal offenders into treatment programs.
This involves all three of the adult BTC sites, and a project looking
at the role of judicial status hearings in a number of drug courts in
Delaware. He is also active in a number of projects looking at the
impact of drug treatment on TANF (welfare recipients). Prior to his current post, he was the Co-Scientific Director
of the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Merrill has previously held academic positions at Columbia
University School of Public Health, Georgetown University School of
Medicine, Harvard University School of Government and the Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health. In
addition to his academic career, he has held a number of positions in the
Federal government including the Associate Administrator of the Health Care
Financing Administration and the Principal Health Economist for the
Congressional Budget Office. He
also has served as a Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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