David Mandell, Sc.D.

• Member, MPH Program Curriculum Committee
• Advisor, BGS Public Health Certificate Students
• Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Dr. Mandell  trained primarily as an epidemiologist and health services researcher.  His research focuses on the epidemiology of autism as well as the organization, financing and delivery of services and supports to children with autism and their families.  His funded research activities include being an investigator on a study of the epidemiology and etiology of autism, and on a number of other studies related to assessing the service and system needs of families of children with autism.  A large portion of Dr. Mandell’s research focuses on the use of administrative data to examine correlates of unmet need in this population.  For example, he has analyzed Medicaid claims to examine differences by ethnicity in the age of diagnosis among children with autism, and education data to examine school district characteristics and the rate of change in the proportion diagnosed with autism.  Ultimately, Dr. Mandell hopes that his research will lead to the development of interventions at the individual, provider and system levels to both decrease the age at which children with disorders are recognized and enter treatment, and to improve the services and supports available to these families. Dr. Mandell consults with the Pennsylvania Departments of Public Welfare and Health to help them develop appropriate policies and procedures to meet the needs of this population. He is a member of the American Public Health Association.

mandelld@mail.med.upenn.edu  http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/cmhpsr/directory/david_mandell.htm