David A. Rochefort

U.S. Health and Welfare Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Quantitative Techniques, Social Problem Fiction, Political Language, Community-Based Research

(Senior author with Kevin P. Donnelly) Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us about Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2011).
(Editor) Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2006).
(Editor, with Robert Hackey, and contributor) The New Politics of State Health Policy. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care, 2nd ed. (Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997).
(Senior Editor, with Roger W. Cobb, and contributor)The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994).
(Editor and Contributor) Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989).
American Social Welfare Policy: Dynamics of Formulation and Change (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986).

(Coauthor with Kevin P. Donnelly) “The Lessons of Lesson Drawing: How the Obama Administration Attempted to Learn from Failure of the Clinton Health Plan,” forthcoming Journal of Policy History, Winter 2012.
“Agenda Setting,” in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, ed. Jack Rabin (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2005).
“Mental Health Policy,” in Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004).
“The Role of Anecdotes in Regulating Managed Care,” Health Affairs 17 (November/December 1998: 142-149
(Senior author with Paula Goering) “‘More a Link than a Division’: How Canada Has Learned from U.S. Mental Health Policy,” Health Affairs 17 (September/October 1998): 110-127.
“Mental Health Policymaking in the Intergovernmental System,” in Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, ed. A. V. Horwitz and T. L. Scheid (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

College of Arts & Sciences, Northeastern University, Distinguished Professor, first appointed in 2001
Affiliated Faculty Member, Doctorate in Law and Policy, Executive Program. Northeastern University, 2007-2011
Northeastern University Excellence-in-Teaching Award, June 1998; Renominated 2007, 2010
Visiting Professor, Taubman Public Policy Center, Brown University, 2007-2010
Founding Director, Northeastern University Community-Based Research Initiative (www.cbri.neu.edu)
Practice-Oriented Education Award, Northeastern University, 2006
Beverly Visiting Professor, The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, fall 1999
President’s Outstanding Service Award, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, 1998
Fulbright Scholar Award, University of Montreal, fall 1996
Policy Analysis Consultant – Human Services Research Institute, Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services
Statistical Training Consultant – U.S. Department of Environmental Protection