David Mandell, Sc.D.

• Chair, MPH Program Curriculum Committee
• Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, School of Medicine
• Associate Director of the Center for Autism Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Mandell’s research focuses on the organization, financing and delivery of services to children with autism, and provides the basis for the development of interventions at the individual, provider and system levels to decrease the age at which children with autism are recognized and enter treatment, and to improve the services and supports available to them and their families.Specific studies include an examination of the relationship between states’ policies and their delivery of health services to children with autism; the prevalence of undiagnosed autism among psychiatrically hospitalized adults; and, in partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, the largest randomized trial to date of a behavioral intervention for children with autism.  Dr. Mandell co-chaired the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Autism Task Force from 2003 to 2006 and consults with the Department of Public Welfare to help them develop appropriate policies to meet the needs of families of children with autism. He also served as a member of the planning team for the Philadelphia Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Children’s Behavioral Health in 2007. Dr. Mandell is the Chair of the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from Columbia University and a doctorate of science from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

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