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CFS Associate Professor Bruce Lubotsky Levin Co-Edits New Text on Women's Behavioral Health
CFS Associate Professor Bruce Lubotsky Levin, DrPH, MPH, along with , have co-edited a new textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in many academic disciplines, including the social and behavioral sciences, public health, women鈥檚 studies, medical anthropology, and medical sociology.
The text, examines women's behavioral health (defined as alcohol, drug use, and mental health) problems from a population or public health perspective. It provides the current state of knowledge for women鈥檚 behavioral health and examines the need for behavioral health services and implications for policy. It also reviews major issues in the organization, financing, and provision of women鈥檚 behavioral health services.
Dr. Levin is Senior Editor of numerous textbooks and textbook chapters. His teaching and research interests include the areas of mental health and substance use services delivery, behavioral health policy, mental health informatics, managed behavioral health care, and translational research in adolescent behavioral health. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the NIH-NIDA supported USF Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Behavioral Health to develop, cultivate, and disseminate an innovative model in research education that addresses best practices for translational research in the field of adolescent behavioral health as it relates to drug use and co-occurring disorders.