Faculty

Jody L. Sindelar, Ph.D.

Professor and Head,
Division of Health Policy & Administration

Professor Sindelar is a health economist and professor of public health. She is an expert on the economics of substance abuse including alcoholism, illicit drugs and smoking. Her studies include lost productivity, cost-effectiveness of treatments, social costs, and policy. She has published on the impacts of substance abuse on productivity, educational attainment, gender differences, and related policy issues in economics, policy, addiction, health and medical journals.

Currently, Professor Sindelar heads projects funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and collaborates on projects funded by National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She has also been the Principal Investigator on numerous past research projects funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NIDA, NIMH, and NIAAA, among others.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1980

Awards and Honors

President/Founding member, American Society of Health Economists (ASHE), 2006–present

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),1993–present

Professional Services

Editorial Board, Health Economics, 2005-present

Editorial Board, Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin, 2006-present

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Mental Health Policy Economics, 2006-present

Chair, the Scientific Program, Inaugural Meeting of ASHE, 2006

Member, Program/Scientific Committee, International Health Economic Association (iHEA), 1998, 2003 and 2005

Current Research Projects

Work-life, Health Habits, and Health: Longitudinal Analysis of Aging; Types of Stressors and their Impact on Health Related Addictions: Smoking, Drinking and BMI; Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS; and Buprenorphine Maintenance vs. Detoxification in Prescription Opioid Dependence.

Yale Affiliations

Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)

Executive Board, Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY)/Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC), 2001-present

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Yale Graduate School

In the News

Sindelar Monitors Pulse of Health Economics

$1.7 Million Aging Study to Look at How Early Choices in Work-life and Health Habits Affect Later Health

Sindelar Named Inaugural President Elect of the American Society of Health Economists

Among Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities, Managed Care Causes For-Profits to Offer Additional Services and Public Facilities to Offer Fewer Services, Olmstead and Sindelar Find

Sindelar and Other Researchers from the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) Available to Discuss Quitting Smoking and Other Smoking-Related Issues

Selected Publications

Falba, T.A. and Sindelar, J.L. Spousal Concordance in Health Behavior Change. Health Services Research, in press, 2007.

Sindelar, J.L., Olmstead, T.A., and Peirce, J. Cost-effectiveness of Prize Based Contingency Management in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs. Addiction 102(9): 1463-1471, 2007.

Sindelar, J.L., Elbel, B., and Petry, N.M. What Do We Get for Our Money? Cost-effectiveness of Adding Contingency Management. Addiction 102(2): 309-316, 2007.

Olmstead, T.A., Sindelar, J.L., and Petry, N. Cost-effectiveness of Prize Based Incentives for Stimulant Abusers in Outpatient Psychosocial Treatment Programs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 87: 175-182, 2007.

Rosenheck, R.A., Leslie, D., Sindelar, J.L., et al. Cost-effectiveness of Second Generation Antipsychotics and Perphenazine in a Randomized Trial of Treatment of Chronic Schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 163(12): 2080-2089, 2006.

Busch, S.A., Barry, C., Vegso, S., Sindelar, J.L., and Cullen, M. Effects of a Cost-Sharing Exemption on Use of Preventive Services at One Large Employer. Health Affairs 25(6): 1529-1536, 2006.

Wang, H., Busch, S., and Sindelar, J.L. The Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Consumption Patterns in Rural China. Social Science & Medicine 62(6): 1414–1426, 2006.

Olmstead, T. and Sindelar, J.L. The Impact of Managed Care on Substance Abuse Treatment Services. Health Services Research 40(6 Pt 1): 1862–1882, 2005.