Women’s Behavioral Health: A Public Health Perspective

Ardis Hanson, PhD, MLIS, AHIP is the Assistant Director of Research and Education at the University of South Florida (USF) Health Libraries and holds affiliate faculty positions in the USF College of Public Health and in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences. She is a Co-Investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse grant USF Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Substance Use. Dr. Hanson has over 30 years of experience as a research librarian and has published extensively in the research areas including behavioral health services, health and behavioral health policy, and health services research. Her research focus also includes language and social interaction; how language is used in everyday practice to negotiate claims and identities, particularly in how behavioral health policy is created and developed.

Bruce Lubotsky Levin, DrPH, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child & Family Studies at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Behavioral & Community Sciences. He is also an Associate Professor & Head of the Behavioral Health Concentration (BHC) at the USF College of Public Health. He is Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Curriculum at the USF Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Substance Use. This grant has been refunded for a third consecutive 5-year period by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Levin also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research (JBHS&R), a quarterly scholarly journal that publishes articles on the organization, financing, delivery, dissemination and implementation, and outcomes of behavioral health (including alcohol, drug use, and mental health) services. The JBHS&R is the official publication of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and is published by Springer Nature. He is Senior Editor of numerous textbooks and textbook chapters, including: Foundations of Behavioral Health (Springer, 2020); Introduction to Public Health in Pharmacy, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2018); and Mental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective, 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is co-author (with Ardis Hanson) of Mental Health Informatics (Oxford University Press, 2013).