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The Role of Academic Psychiatry in Leading Health Policy Reform

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The authors discuss the current state of mental health care reform and the opportunity for academic psychiatry to emerge in a leadership role in the organization and delivery of mental health care.

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    Herbert Pardes & Jonathan E. Gordon

  2. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA

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Pardes, H., Gordon, J.E. & Leiman, J.M. The Role of Academic Psychiatry in Leading Health Policy Reform. Acad Psychiatry 38, 561–565 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-014-0143-6

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