Dr. Purtle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health where he is Director of the MS program in Health Services Research. Jonathan is a mental health policy and services researcher who utilizes trans-disciplinary and mixed method approaches to understand how evidence-based policy interventions can be most effectively disseminated, implemented, and sustained to reduce health inequalities. He is currently the Principle Investigator of a R21 from the National Institute of Mental Health that is exploring strategies to disseminate mental health evidence to state policymakers and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project that is examining activities to reduce health inequities in US cities.
Jonathan previously served as Research Director of Drexel University's Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice, a collaboration between the Dornsife School of Public Health and College of Medicine, where he oversaw research and evaluation activities for Healing Hurt People - a hospital-based violence intervention program. Jonathan received his DrPH in Health Management & Policy from the Drexel School of Public Health and holds a master's degree in sociology from the De Universiteit van Amsterdam and an MPH from Drexel.