Executive Committee
Joan R. Bloom
School of Public Health
Joan Bloom is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She received her BS from the University of California, Berkeley and a MA in Sociology and Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Stanford University. Her research interests include: Psycho-social interventions to prevent, encourage early diagnosis, and improve the quality of lives of individuals with chronic disease (e.g. cancer, diabetes, cardiac disease, and chronic mental illness). Current projects include risk notification of men at high risk for prostate and breast cancer; ten year follow-up of young breast cancer survivors, a physical activity intervention to prevent osteoporosis and weight gain in breast cancer survivors, the utilization, cost, and outcomes of capitating mental health services for medicaid recipients.
Recent publications include:
"Then and Now: Quality of Life of Young Breast Cancer Survivors", with SL Stewart, S Chang, PJ Banks, Psycho-Oncology 13: 1-14, 2004;
"Increasing the accuracy of perceived breast cancer risk: results from a randomized trial with cancer information services callers", with S Davis, SL Stewart, Preventive Medicine, 2004;
"Utilization of antipsychotic medication in treating schizophrenia among
different financing and delivery system", with JS Chen, TW Hu, SH Kang, NT Wallace, Journal of Mental Health Policy and conomics,6:163-71, 2003;
"Mental health costs and access under alternative capitation systems in Colorado", with TW Hu, N Wallace, B Cuffel, J Hausman, ML Sheu, R Scheffler, Health Services Research. 37(2): 315-340, 2002.