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Laura A. Schmidt, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W. Background Information and Areas of Research laura.schmidt@ucsf.edu
Assistant Adjunct Professor Campus Phone 415-476-0440
Laura Schmidt is an associate professor of health
policy at the She has an extensive research portfolio in health services research that combines quantitative, archival and ethnographic methods. Her work focuses on organizational responses to health problems, including problems of addiction, access and utilization of care, poverty and health disparities, and how changing health and welfare policies impact health care systems and the populations they serve. Her studies have been funded by the National Institutes on Health (NIH), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Currently, Schmidt is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) on studies of alcohol-related health disparities, including work for the United Nations Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. She is also an investigator on the national evaluation team for the RWJF’s quality improvement initiative in addiction treatment called Advancing Recovery. She authored the forthcoming book “Building the Health Care Market, 1965-1995” under contract with Princeton University Press. Previously, she served as an investigator for the WHO/NIH Joint Commission on Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders on studies of the cross-cultural applicability of addiction-related diagnostic concepts. Schmidt holds a doctorate in
sociology and two master’s degrees (in public health and social welfare)
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Selected Publications
Schmidt, Laura, & McCarty, Dennis. (2000). Welfare reform and the changing landscape of substance abuse services for low income women. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24(8), 1298-1311. Schmidt, Laura & Room, Robin. (1999). Cross-cultural applicability in international classifications and research on alcohol dependence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60(4), 448-462. Schmidt, Laura & Weisner, Constance. (1999). Public health perspectives on access and need for alcohol treatment, pp 67-96. In (Tucker, J.A., Donovan, D. M., & Marlatt, A., eds., Changing Addictive Behavior: Moving Beyond Therapy-Assisted Change. New York: Guilford Press. Schmidt, Laura; Weisner, Constance; & Wiley, James. (1998). Substance abuse and the course of welfare dependency. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1616-1622. Schmidt, Laura. (1995). “A battle not man’s but God’s”: origins of the American temperance crusade in the struggle for religious authority. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 56(1), 110-121. Schmidt, Laura & Weisner, Constance. (1995). The emergence of problem-drinking women as a special population in need of treatment. In: (Galanter, Marc, ed., Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 12, pp. 309-326. New York: Plenum Press. Schmidt, Laura. (1991). Specialization in alcoholism and mental health residential treatment: the “dual diagnosis” problem. Journal of Drug Issues, 21(4), 859-874. Schmidt, Laura (1990). Problem drinkers and the welfare bureaucracy. Social Service Review, 64(3), 390-406. Other ARG Publications of This Author Grants Information
Alcohol Problems & Service Dynamics after Welfare Reform, NIAAA R01 AA13136 Financing, Cost, and Access to Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA/CSAT 270-01-7097, Principal Investigator: Christopher Tompkins, Ph.D. (Brandeis University). Co-Investigators: Laura Schmidt, Ph.D. (ARG), Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D. (New England Research Institute) Implementing
Welfare Reform Changing Strategies for Managing Substance Abuse at the
Local Level, Robert Wood Johnson grant
to PHI, Principal Investigator: Laura Schmidt, Ph.D. Return to List of Researchers & Staff
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