Factors Affecting State-Level Enforcement of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: A Cross-Case Analysis of Four States

Rachel Presskreischer is a postdoctoral fellow with the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on mental health policy, including health insurance coverage, costs of care, and regulatory enforcement. Her current research explores health care costs and service utilization among adults with eating disorders.

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Colleen L. Barry is the inaugural dean of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research examines how health and social policies can affect a range of outcomes, including access to medical care and social services, care quality, health care spending, financial protection, and mortality. She conducts empirical research to understand how communication strategies influence public attitudes about health insurance, drug addiction, mental illness, gun policy, and obesity and food policy.

Adria K. Lawrence is the Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, a joint appointment by the School of Advanced International Studies and the Department of Political Science at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She studies conflict and contentious politics, with a focus on the Arab world. Her areas of expertise include ethnic and nationalist politics, colonialism and empire, and qualitative research methods.

Alexander McCourt is an assistant professor with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He serves as assistant director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health and the director of legal research of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy. He also is affiliated with the Center for Injury Research and Policy. As a public health lawyer, much of his work has been focused on areas of public health law, including firearm policy and violence, opioid policy, transportation policy, and emergency preparedness.

Ramin Mojtabai is a professor with the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; he has a joint appointment with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include adult psychiatry and mental health services research, and his services research focuses on trends and correlates of seeking treatment for common mental disorders, barriers to treatment including stigma, the process and outcome of treatments of depression and other common mental and behavioral disorders in the usual care settings, and the pharmacoepidemiology of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs.

Emma E. McGinty is chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on how public policies influence health and social outcomes among people with mental illness and substance use disorders. In addition to conducting empirical policy evaluations, she also studies how communication strategies influence public stigma toward and support for policies benefiting people with mental illness and substance use disorders.