Jan Blustein

Jan Blustein, Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, teaches courses in statistics, program evaluation, and research methods at the Wagner School. Health service equity and public health are some of her longstanding interests. Her work has been published in New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, British Medical Journal, Health Affairs, and other leading journals.  

Professor Blustein’s newest research focuses on hearing loss and its consequences for health and quality of life for older Americans. That work spans clinical, epidemiologic, and policy dimensions.  She recently co-authored an article on policies and practices to lower the cost of hearing aids and increase hearing aid use that appeared in the American Journal of Public Health.  A companion piece on the topic appeared in The Washington Post.   Another line of work explores the impact of hearing loss on medical care, focussing on disruptions in doctor-patient communication.  Recent publications on this topic have appeared in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the BMJ (British Medical Journal), and the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) -- links to this work appear to the right.

Professor Blustein is involved in hearing loss advocacy, and serves on the board of the Hearing Loss Association of America.   She holds an MD degree from the Yale School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from NYU Wagner.

Areas of Expertise

Health Management

Health Policy

Inequality

Law & Regulation

Management

Public & Nonprofit Organizations

Race, Class, Gender & Diversity

Social Policy