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CURRICULUM VITAE
NANCY WOLFF
PERSONAL
Office Address: Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey176 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1293
Office Telephone: 732-***-**** Fax Number: 732-***-****
Email Address: abo67c@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
B.A.: Economics and Political Science, Iowa State University, June 1979
Ph.D.: Economics, Iowa State University, December 1984
Areas of Specialization: Health Economics, Public Finance, Public Policy
Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Distributional Impact of the Social Security Program, 1962-1972"
Postdoctoral Training: Center for Health Economics and Law, University of Wisconsin, 1985-
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PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
1988 FIRST Award, NIMH
1998-99 Atlantic Policy Fellowship Award, The Commonwealth Fund
1999 Outstanding Article of Year Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit and
Voluntary Action
2010 Honoree, Executive Women of New Jersey
2010 Centennial Honoree, Princeton YMCA
2012 Semi-finalist, Everyday Hero, American Federation of Teachers
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Editor, Justice Quarterly (2008 to 2012
)
Faculty Affiliate, Center of Alcohol Studies (2008 to present
)
Editor, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (2005, 2006
)
Director, Public Policy Program (2005 to January 2008
)
Director, Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research (2002 to
present
)
Director, Mental Health & Criminal Justice Post-doctoral Training Program (2004 to
present
)
Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
(beginning June 2004) and the UMDNJ School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers
University (June 1998-May 2004
) and the UMDNJ School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University
(
1992-1998).
Associate Director of the Center for Research on the Organization and Financing of Care
for the
Severely Mentally Ill, Rutgers University (beginning August, 1992-2002
)
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1988-
92
)
Health Service Research Coordinator, Wm. S. Middleton Veterans Hospital (1988-1992
)
Research Fellow, Center for Health Economics and Law (1988-1992
)
Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987-
1988
)
NIMH Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Health Economics and Law (1985-1987
)
Research Associate, Dept. of Economics, Iowa State University (1984-85
)
Instructor, Dept. of Economics, Iowa State University (1982-1984
)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member, Governor-elect Christie s transition team, corrections
Reviewer, NIMH Special Emphasis Panel (2002 to present)
Member, NIMH Scientific Review Study Section (1999-2002; 2003-2004)
Member, NJ Division of Mental Health, Department of Corrections, & Parole Board Workgroup
Member, Organizing Committee, Tenth Biennial Mental Health Economics Conference (2000)
Co-chair, Ninth Biennial Mental Health Economics Conference (1998)
Advisor, Council of Academic Policy Advisors to the New Jersey Legislature (1998- 2000)
Technical advisor and reviewer, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (1996-2002)
Technical consultant, Environmental Health Project (1996-2001)
Technical consultant, Economic Impact of Psychiatric Facility Consolidation in CT (1997).
Ad Hoc Grant Review Panel member, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (August 1996;
September 1996; November 1996; August 1997)
Ad Hoc Grant Review Panel member, National Institute for Mental Health (June 1996)
Member of Paper Selection Committee and Session Chair, Seventh Biennial Mental Health
Economics Conference (1994)
Member of Selection Committee, Dissertation Prize Committee, Association for Research on
Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (1994-1996)
Member of Organizing Committee, 1993-94
Health Care Policy and Regulation Workshop,
Rutgers School of Management Center for Research in Regulated Industries (1993-94)
Co-chair, Research Advisory Board, Center for Research on the Organization and Financing
of
Care for the Severely Mentally Ill
(
1992- 2002)
Member, VA Research Committee, Wm. S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital (1988 -1992)
Ex-officio member, Health Services Research Advisory Committee, Veterans Administration,
Great Lakes Regional Health Services Research & Development Field Program
(
1988-1992
)
Site team member,
National Institute of Mental Health (1988)
Ad hoc Grant Review committee member, National Institute of Mental Health (1989; 1995)
Participating Faculty member, National Institute for Mental Health Training Grant,
"Economics
and Mental Health"
(
1988-1992
)
Technical Advisor, Chief Medical Director's Special Committee on PTSD (1989-1992)
Reviewer: ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health,
Health Economics, Health Expectations, Health Services Research, Hospital and Health
Services Research, Inquiry, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Journal of
Family
Planning, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Mental Health Administration, Journ al
of Mental Health Policy and Economics; Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency;
Justice Quarterly; Medical Care, Mental Health Services Research, Milbank, Nonprofit and
Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Psychiatric Services, Public Management, and Social Science
& Medicine.
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PUBLICATIONS
IV. Reports
Wolff, N. Food Security Issues and Options in Central America, Monograph Series, prepared
for the Council of Ministers of Agriculture in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican
Republic (CORECA), 1985.
Wolff, N. Socioeconomic Study of Connecticut Valley Hospital Middletown, Connecticut,
prepared for the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
for
the State of Connecticut, October 1997.
Wolff, N. Costs of Family Health Services: An Evaluation of Three Programs in New Jersey,
prepared for the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, U.S. Public Health Service, April
1998.
Wolff, N., & Vesey, B. Correctional Health Care in New Jersey Jails, prepared for
Correctional
Health Care Briefing, held in August 2001 at Rutgers University.
Wolff, N., Maschi, T., & Bjerklie, J.R. Planning for the Reentry Needs of Inmates with
Mental
Health Problems in New Jersey Prisons, prepared for the Division of Mental Health
Services/Department of Corrections/Parole Board Workgroup, presented to the Commiss ioner
of
New Jersey Department of Corrections, October 2002.
Wolff, N. Investing in Health and Justice Outcomes: An Investment Strategy for Offenders
with Mental Health Problems in New Jersey, prepared for the New Jersey Institute for
Social
Justice, January 2003.
Wolff, N., Blitz, C., Giovannetti, G., & Paap, K. Incarcerated Women in New Jersey:
Results
from a Survey on Employment, Behavioral Health, and Victimization, prepared for the New
Jersey Department of Corrections, May 2005.
Wolff, N., Meloy, M., Saleh, Y., & Shi, J. Legislatively Mandated Study of the Five-Year
Recidivism Rates and Behavior of Sex Offenders Released from New Jersey Prisons, prepared
for
the New Jersey Department of Corrections, October 2005.
Wolff, N., Fisher, M., Wilders, G., & Meloy, M. Reentry of Sex Offenders on Community
Supervision for Life, final report submitted to the New Jersey Department of Corrections
and the
New Jersey State Parole Board, June 2005.
Wolff, N., Blitz, C., & Shi, J. Incidence of Physical and Sexual Victimization in New
Jersey
Prisons, report submitted to the New Jersey Department of Corrections, November 2005.
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Wolff, N., & Shi, J. Reentry Readiness of Men and Women Leaving New Jersey Prisons,
report
submitted to the New Jersey Department of Corrections, January 2010.
FORMAL PRESENTATIONS (Over 150 since 1985; Selected list since 2000)
Economics of Health, Illness, and Managed Care. School of Public Health, Rutgers
University -
Newark, March 2000.
Using Randomized Controlled Trials to Evaluate Socially Complex Services. 5th Workshop
on
Costs & Assessment in Psychiatry, Value of Psychiatry Conference, Chicago IL, May 2000.
Designing Real Cost Effectiveness Evaluations. Invited p resentation, New Clinical
Drug
Evaluation Unit annual meeting, Boca Raton FL, May 2000.
Discharge Planning Practices of New Jersey Jails The Persistent Gap between Treatment
Settings. to be presented at the Annual Conference of New Jersey Wardens, Octo ber 6,
2000.
Getting the Design and Cost Right in Cost-Effectiveness Evaluations. Invited
presentation,
Conference on Mental Health Policy and Economics in Arab Countries and Sub-Saharan
Africa,
Cairo, Egypt, October 10-12, 2000.
Applying Cost Effective Methods to Socially Complex Services. Invited presentation,
Center
for Mental Health Services, Washington University, November 2000.
Why Randomized Control Trials Don t Work for Socially Complex Services. Post -doctoral
Seminar, Rutgers University, January 2001.
Correctional Health Care: A Study of New Jersey Jails. First Annual Research Symposium,
UMDNJ-School of Public Health, January 2001.
Calling on the Judge: A National Study of the Bridging to Treatment Efforts of Judges.
Invited
talk at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, January 2001.
Responding to and Managing Mental Illness Inside and Through the Criminal Justice
System:
Challenging the Norms and Other Barriers. Invited talk at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Work, March 2001.
Challenges Associated with Evaluating the Impact of Mental Health Courts. Invited
discussant
at the NIMH-MacArthur Foundation meeting on the Future Research on Mental Health Courts
and Other Jail Diversion Strategies: Setting an Agenda/Building Partnerships, Washington,
DC,
June 21-22, 2001.
Expanding the Intervention Design to Include Cost Effectiveness. Invited presentation,
Research Approaches to Early Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders for Minority
Children and Adolescents, Bethesda, MD, July 9-10, 2001.
Mental Health Courts: Promise and Peril. Invited presentation, Fourth Annual
International
Forensic Mental Health Conference on Forensic Mental Health: Working Together to Respond
to
Crisis and Promote Change, New York City, June 7, 2002.
Courts as Therapeutic Agents. XXVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Law and
Mental Health, Amsterdam, July 9, 2002.
Searching for Effects. Invited discussant, special session on the National Evaluation
of the
Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for children and Their Families Program,
American Psychological Association meetings, Chicago, August 22-25, 2002
Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research: Report on New Activities in New
Jersey.
invited presentation at the NJ NAMI Jail Diversion Task Force meeting, New Brunswick NJ,
September 10, 2002.
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Reentry Planning -- It's All About Treatment, Right? Invited presentation at the
conference on
Practical Strategies for Addressing Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Disorders
in Correctional Settings sponsored by NIDA, NIC, NIAAA, CSTAT, CMHS, and NIMH,
Washington DC, October 16-18, 2002.
The Dynamics of Social Capital of Prisoners and Community Reentry: Ties that Bind?
Commissioned paper by the Urban Institute, invited presentation at the Public Health
Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry Roundtable, Los Angeles California, December 11-13, 2002.
Investing in Health and Justice Outcomes: An Investment Strategy for Offenders with
Mental
Health Problems in New Jersey. Commissioned paper by the New Jersey Institute for Social
Justice, presented at the New Jersey Reentry Roundtable held in Trenton NJ, January 24,
2003.
Partnerships with a Purpose: Unlocking Doors to Promising Approaches, Keynote address
at
the Oklahoma State Conference on Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Systems, Oklahoma
City
OK, January 2003.
Economic Outcomes in RCT Evaluations: What's Their Value? Presented at the NIMH, NIDA,
NIAAA cost workshop entitled Analysis of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental He alth Treatment:
Lessons from the Field at the Beyond the Clinic Walls conference held in Washington DC,
March 2003.
Economic Collaboration: Building a Better RCT. Presented at the NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA
sponsored cost workshop entitled Analysis of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Treatment:
Lessons from the Field at the Beyond the Clinic Walls conference held in Washington DC,
March 2003.
From Prison to Community for Male Inmates with Mental Health Problems: The Cost of
American
Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., August 2005.
Thinking About and Responding to the Behavioral Health Needs of Adults in Correctional
Settings. Invited plenary presentation at the International Community Correctional
Association
conference on Making What Works Work, Atlantic City, NJ, November 2005.
It s Not Just the Illness, or the Person, or the Family: The Village as Part of the
Problem and
Solution, Invited keynote address at the Maine Department of Correction Training
Conference,
February 2006.
Reentry and People with Mental Illness Invited panelist, Criminal Justice Institute,
Harvard
Law School, April 2006.
Sexual and Physical Victimization Inside Prison: Does Mental Illness Matter? Invited
presentation Center for Health Administration Studies-Michael Davis Seminar, University
of
Chicago, April 2006.
Prisons and Performance: Making Good or Modeling Bad? Invited Medical Grand Rounds,
Medical University of South Carolina, April 2006.
Demonstrating Program Penetration before Effect: The Case of the Car t before the Horse
in
Evaluation Research. Presented at the Eastern Evaluation Research Society Conference,
Absecon, NJ, April, 2006.
Rigorous Evaluation: Is There a Gold Standard? Invited panelist at the Eastern
Evaluation
Research Society Annual Conference, Absecon, NJ, April, 2006.
Mental Health Courts: What is the Evidence and Theory, Invited testimony before the New
Jersey Assembly Regulatory Oversight Committee, June 2006.
Demonstrating Effect: The Case of Mental Health Courts, Invited presentation, Drug
Court
and Other Problem Solving Courts: State of the Science, NIDA, Bethesda, Maryland,
September
12-13, 2006
Mental Illness, Race, Victimization and Prison Culture: The Confluence of Adversity,
Invited
presentation, Seminar Series sponsored by The Institute for the Elimination of Health
Disparities,
UMDNJ-Newark, January 2007.
Prison, Violence, and Victimization: New Data, Old Issues, Invited presentation,
Research
Colloquium, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, April 2007.
Rethinking Reentry based on the Experience of those Leaving Prison: The Reentry Survival
Manual and Curriculum Approach, Invited presentation at the Annual Offender Transition
Conference, McKean Re-Entry Initiative, Federal Correctional Institution McKean,
Bradford,
PA, June 2007.
Criminal Justice Policies and Issues, Invited panelist at the New Jersey Legislators
Academy,
partnership among Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the Forums Institute,
January
2008.
Prisoner Reentry as a Public Policy Issue, Invited by the Majority Senate Office of the
New
Jersey Legislator to present to the New Jersey Senate Law, Public Safety, and Veteran s
Affairs Committee, Trenton, NJ, March 2008.
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Person-first Strategies for Designing and Implementing New Services for People Leaving
and
Living in Correctional Settings, Invited presentation, Grand Rounds, Columbia Center for
Homelessness Prevention Studies, Columbia University, April 2008.
Prevalence and Predictors of Victimization inside Prison, Invited presentation,
Department of
Economics, Iowa State University, May 2008.
The Culture of Prison: What is it and Why does it Matter? Invited presentation, Sixth
Annual
Statewide Cultural Sensitivity Conference sponsored by the Cultural Sensitivity
Institute,
Voorhees, New Jersey, August 2008.
Behavioral Health Needs and Concerns of People Inside Prison. Invited keynote
presentation,
Annual conference on Prevention, Public Safety, and Re-entry: Attending to Behavioral
Health
Needs of Offenders, sponsored by the Coalition of Community Correction Providers of New
Jersey, Inc, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 2008.
Community Re-integration of Prisoners with Mental Health Difficulties. Invited
presentation,
Seventh Annual NDA Disability Research Conference on Supporting People with Mental
Health Difficulties in the Criminal Justice System: What the Evidence Tells Us, Dublin,
Ireland,
October 2008.
Rationally Planning for Reentry, Reintegration, and Resettlement from the First Person
Perspective. Invited keynote presentation, Fourth Annual Reentry Conference on Working
Together: Resources for Reentry, sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections,
Norman, Oklahoma, December 8-10, 2008.
Culture, Victimization, and Feelings of Safety inside Prison and their Implications on
Treatment
and Reentry. Invited presentation, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Mental Health
Services Seminar Series, University of Pennsylvania, December 9, 2008.
Domestic Violence Courts: The Case of Lady Justice Meets the Serpents of the Caduceus:
Has
the Lady s Reach Yielded Promise or Peril? Invited presentation, Law and Psychology
Program, Conference on Problem-solving Courts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 27-
29, 2010.
Involuntary Civil Commitment: Review of the Literature, testimony on Thursday, September
16,
2010 before the New Jersey Assembly Committee on Human Services.
Community Reentry: Going Home after Serving Time, presented at the Community-Wise
meeting, Rutgers Newark, January 2011
The Next Generation of Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Interventions: Improving
Outcomes
th
by Improving the Interventions, Presented at the 4 Academic & Health Policy Conference
on
Correctional Health, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 2011
Training on Effectively Supervising Clients with Mental Illnesses, two-day training of
probation officers, Rutgers University, September 2011.
Obesity and Weight-Related Medical Problems of Incarcerated Persons with and without
Mental Disorders. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology held in Washington, D.C., November 16-19, 2011 .
Reentry New Jersey Style, Presentation at Reentry Exhibit, Rutgers-Newark, December
2011.
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Volunteer Activities:
Books Behind Bars, Fundraising and book donation program for prison libraries through
Rutgers Foundation. Program started by Dr. Wolff in 2004.
Books Behind Bars, Bookclub ( A Reading Circle ), Edna Mahan Co rrectional Facility for
Women and New Jersey State Prison. Program started by Dr. Wolff in 2004; she purchases
books for and leads three chapters of the book club, and currently has 60 women reading
and
discussing fiction and non-fiction books with themes of recovery, inspiration, self-
construction
and empowerment, and overcoming difficulties to achieve success.
Dr. Wolff received a Russell Berrie Award for Making a Difference in 2008 and the
Centennial
Award from the Princeton YMCA for her work with Books Behind Bars.
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