Our Faculty

Dr. Bruce Link is a research scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute, in addition to his responsibilities at the Mailman School. Dr. Link?s interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social epidemiology. He has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma, and discrimination. Currently he is conducting research aimed at understanding health disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, the consequences of social stigma for people with mental illnesses, and the connection between mental illnesses and violent behaviors. He is the director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program, the director of the Center for Violence Research and Prevention and a director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Columbia University.

MS, Columbia University, 1982

PhD, Columbia Univeristy, 1980

BA, Earlham College, 1971

Mailman School Affiliations:

• Center for Violence Research and Prevention 

Additional Affiliations:

• Member, Insitute of Medicine
• American Public health Association
• American Sociological Association
• Society for the Study of Social Problems
• National Adivsory Committee RWJ Health Policy Investigators

• RWJ Health Policy Investigator Award 1996
• Pearlin Career Award in the Sociology of Mental Health 2002
• Institute of Medicine 2002

Selected Editorial Boards

• Social Psychology Quarterly
• Health
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills

Community Outcomes of Assisted Outpatient Treatment
New York State's "Kendra's Law" is a provision that court orders individuals with severe mental illness to outpatient psychiatric treatment. This research project examines the long term outcomes of people from the Bronx and Queens who are assigned to this program.