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Neal L. Cohen, M.D.

Distinguished Lecturer

B.A., Columbia College

M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Room 1006

PHONE: (212)452-7026

FAX: (212)452-7150

E-MAIL: ncoh@hunter.cuny.edu

Professional Interests:

Mental Health as a Public Health Issue

Mental Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Social and Behavioral Science Approaches to Public Health Practice

Current Research:

Urban trauma and resiliency

Complex PTSD Epidemiology

Selected Publications:

1.       Cohen, N.L.  Lessons Learned From Providing Disaster Counseling After TWA       Flight 800.  Psychiatric Services, 48(4): 461-462, 1997.

2.       Cohen, N.L., Gantt, A.B. and Sainz, A. Influences on Fit Between Psychiatric Patients’ Psychosocial Needs and Their Hospital Discharge Plan. Psychiatric Services, 48(4): 518-523, 1997.

3.       Cohen, N.L., McQuistion, H., Albert, G., Edgar, J., Falk, K. and Serby, M. Training In Community Psychiatry: New Opportunities. Psychiatric Quarterly, 69(2): 107-116,1998.

4.       Gantt, A.B., Cohen, N.L. and Sainz, A. Impediments to the Discharge Planning Effort for Psychiatric Inpatients.  Social Work In Health Care, 29(1):1-14, 1999.

5.       Siegel, C., Laska, E., Haugland, G., O’Neil, D, Cohen, N.L., and Lesser,M.  The Construction of Community Indices of Mental health and Social and Mental Well Being and Their Application to New York City.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 23:315-327, 2000

6.       Bedell, J.R., Cohen, N.L. and Sullivan, A.M.  Case Management: Current Best Practices and the Next Generation of Innovation. Community Mental Health Journal.  36(2): 179-194, 2000.

7.       Cohen, N.L., Hansell, D.A., and Forlenza, S.  The Intersection of Injecting Drug Use and HIV/AIDS In New York City.  Journal of Urban Health, 77(3): 438-442, 2000.

8.       Cohen, N.L. and Perl, S.   A Managed Care/Public Health Partnership: Opportunities In New York City’s Medicaid Program.   Journal of Urban Health, 77(4): 663-666, 2000.

9.       Cagan, E.R., Hubinsky, T., Goodman, A., Deitcher, D., and Cohen, N.L.  Partnering With Communities To Improve Health: The New York City Turning Point Experience.  Journal of Urban Health, 78(1): 176-180, 2001.

10 .     Cagan, E.R., Goodman, A., Hubinsky, T. and Cohen, N.L. Hearing the Voices of the Community Above the Din of the City.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 8(1): 27-33, 2002.

11 .      Leighton, J., Klitzman, S., Matte, T. and Cohen, N.L. The Effect of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation on Blood Lead Levels of Lead Poisoned Children in New York City. Environmental Research, 92(3): 182-190, 2003.

12 .      Cohen, N.L. and Perl, S. Integrating Behavioral and Social Science into a Public Health Agency: A Case Study of New York City. Journal of Urban Health, 80(4): 608-615, 2003.

13 .      Shinn, M., VanDevanter, N., Bleakely, A., Niang, K.T., Perl, S., and Cohen, N.L. Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences by Public Health Departments in Major Cities. Journal of Urban Health, 80(4): 616-624, 2003.

14 .      VanDevanter, N., Shinn, M., Niang, K.T., Bleakely, A., Perl, S., and Cohen, N.L. The Role of Social and Behavioral Science in Public Health Practice: A Study of the New York City Department of Health. Journal of Urban Health, 80(4): 625-634, 2003.

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: 

1.       Editor, Psychiatry Takes To The Streets: Outreach and Crisis Intervention For The Mentally Ill.  New York, Guilford Press, 1990. 

2.       A.M. Sullivan and Cohen, N.L.  The Home Visit and the Chronically Mentally Ill.  In Cohen, N.L. (Ed.), Psychiatry Takes to the Streets: Outreach and Crisis Intervention for the Mentally Ill.  New York, Guilford Press, 42-60, 1990.

3.       Cohen, N.L. and Sullivan, A.M.  Strategies of Intervention and Service Consideration by Mobile Outreach Teams.  In N. L. Cohen (Ed.), Psychiatry Takes to the Streets: Outreach and Crisis Intervention for the Mentally Ill.  New York, Guilford Press, 63-79, 1990.
 

4.       Cohen, N.L. and Marcos, L.R.  Outreach Intervention Models for the Homeless Mentally Ill.  In H. R. Lamb (Ed.), Treating the Homeless Mentally Ill.  Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 141-157, 1992.
 

5.       Tsemberis, S., Cohen, N.L. and Jones, R.  Conducting Psychiatric Assessments on the Street.  In Katz, S., Nardacci, D., Sabatini, A.  Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 71-89, 1993. 

6.       Cohen, N.L.  Treatment Compliance in Schizophrenia: Issues for the Therapeutic Alliance and Public Mental Health.  In B. Blackwell (Ed.), Compliance and the Treatment Alliance in Serious Mental Illness.  Harwood Academic Publishers, 239-250, 1997. 

7.       Cohen, N.L., Lamon, S.S., and Katz, N. Implementing Kendra’s Law.  In     Landsberg, G., Lack, M., Berg, L. and Smilely, A. (Eds.), Serving Mentally Ill Offenders and Their Victims.  New York, Springer Publishing Co., 274-285, 2002. 

8.       Lamon, S.S., Cohen, N.L., and Broner, N. New York City’s System of Criminal Justice Mental Health Services.  In Landsberg, G., Lack, M., Berg, L. and Smiley, A.(Eds.), Serving Mentally Ill Offenders and Their Victims.  New York, Springer Publishing Co., 144-156, 2002.  

9.       Cohen, N.L. Reflections on the Public Health and Mental Health Response to 9/11. In Danieli, Y.and Dingman, R.L. and Zellner, J. (Eds.), On the Ground After September 11: Mental Health Responses and Practical Knowledge Gained.  New York, Haworth Press, Inc., 24-28, 2005.

 
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