 Faculty
 Julie Donohue Ph.D. Position:
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Secondary Appointment in the Department of Psychiatry
Core Faculty, Center for Research on Health Care
Research Interests:
Pharmaceutical policy, mental health, politics of health policy
Biosketch:
Julie Donohue, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
in the Graduate School of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh.
She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and is a
core faculty member in the Center for Research on Health Care. Dr. Donohue
received her Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University and completed a
post-doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Policy Research at Harvard
Medical School. Dr. Donohue conducts research in the areas of pharmaceutical
policy and mental health. Past research has examined the economic and public
health effects of direct-to-consumer advertising and other forms of
pharmaceutical promotion. Dr. Donohue is currently conducting research on
the impact of pharmacy insurance benefits on prescription drug utilization
and expenditures. A major focus of this work is evaluating the impact of the
new Medicare drug benefit (Part D) on medication access among elderly and
disabled Medicare beneficiaries. She also studies doctor-patient
communication on prescription drugs, the cost-effectiveness of mental health
interventions and efforts to provide information on comparative
effectiveness and prices of prescription drugs to consumers.
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