Jeffrey Merrill

Jeffrey Merrill is a University Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry at University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is a visiting Professor at Columbia University, School of Public Health. He Graduated Johns Hopkins University with his MPH and has been very prolific in his research in the fields of Health Care Economic research. Mr. Merrill has acted as Principal Investigator on numerous federal research grants and has had considerable experience in a governmental capacity. One of Mr. Merrill's appointments was Assistant to the Mayor of New York City and Deputy Director of the NYC Urban Corps in 1968-69.

Mr. Merrill's professional affiliations include the following:

-Has served on numerous National Institute on Drug Abuse and CSAT grant review panels.
-Member of NIDA Committee on Developing a Health Services Research Agenda
-Current Member, NIDA Services Research Committee
-Current Member, NIDA Committee on Drug Abuse and the Workplace
-Current Member, CSAT Washington Circle Group developing performance standards for managed behavioral health care.
-Current Member, CSAT Expert Panel on the National Evaluation Data System
-Current Member, CSAT Expert Panel on Costs and Cost Methodologies
-Current Member, CSAT National Advisory Group on Wrap-Around Services
-Current Member, Annie E. Casey Foundation, National Advisory Group on Substance Abuse and Welfare

-Served as a consultant to a number of towns and school districts on the prevention of substance abuse and other risk behaviors, including Cranbury, NJ and Concord, MA