January, 2002
Harry Perlstadt
Department of Sociology
316 Berkey Hall
Phone:
(517) 353-5089 FAX : (517)
432-2856 e-mail:
perlstad@pilot.msu.edu
Goal:
To
improve the quality of evaluation and applied sociology through teaching,
research, and practice.
Education:
1963 B.A.
1973 Ph.D.
1979 M.P.H.
Post-Doctoral
Fellowship:
1977-78 National Institute of Mental Health
Evaluation Research and Social Policy
Center for Research on Social Organizations
Department of Sociology,
Certification:
1986 Social
Policy and Evaluation Research
American Sociological Association
2000 Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer Program
Training for HIV-AIDS
American Psychological Association
Positions:
1968- Instructor to Full Professor
Department of Sociology,
Adjunct Appointments at
Institute for Public Policy & Social
Research
Office of Medical Education, Research and
Development
Interdisciplinary Programs in Health and
Humanities
1993
Interim Executive
Director
Michigan Public Health Institute
1984-93 Adjunct
Associate Professor
Health Care Programs,
1981-82 Visiting
Associate Professor
Department of Health Administration
1980 Temporary
Lecturer
Department of Hospital Administration
Research
and Teaching Interests:
Sociology of Medicine/Health
Health Organizations and Delivery Systems
Evaluation and Social Impact
Complex/Formal Organizations
Awards
and Recognitions:
Chair’s Citation for Contributions to the Committee on
Affiliates
American Public Health Association Committee on
Affiliates (2001)
Marvin Olsen Award for Distinguished Service to
Sociology in
Alex
Boros Award for
Society for Applied Sociology (2000)
Special Joint Award for Distinguished
Contributions to the Profession as first Chair of the Commission on Applied and
Clinical Sociology.
The Sociological Practice Association and
the Society for Applied Sociology (2000).
Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society of International Scholars (1998)
Honorary Life Membership
Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching (1996, 1998 and 2000)
Advocate of the Year Award (1996)
American Lung Association of
Resolution
of Tribute for Public Service (Mar 12, 1992)
State Senate of
Public Service Achievement Award (1985)
American Lung Association of
Research and
Evaluation Grants/Contracts – 1985-Present
(Principal
or Co- Principal Investigator):
2000- Michigan Department
of Community Health and Centers for Disease Control $108,900
Testing
the Predictiveness of the
Design
instrument and procedure and test predictability of items to assess need
for
blood lead level testing by matching survey answers with actual blood lead
levels.
1999-
US
Dept of Education/ Dept of Health and Human Services/ Dept of Justice
Local
Evaluation of Safe Schools/Healthy Youth Initiative
$348,157
Develop
evaluation design, assist sub-projects with LOGIC
Models, conduct
surveys of students, parents and community stakeholders, write reports.
1-
Michigan
Department of Community Health, Office of Drug Control Policy
$16,315
Evaluation of Safe & Drug Free
School Curricula
Developed
instruments for evaluation of curricula in upper elementary, middle
and high
schools as well as sampling guidelines and administrative protocols.
1994-97 W.
K. Kellogg Foundation $532,844
Comprehensive
Community Health Models of
Cluster
Evaluation of three communities engaged in planning and implementing
local
level health care reform to improve their health care delivery system
1991-96 City
of
US Dept of Health Human Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention $220,000
Local
Evaluation of Drug Use & Alcohol Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project
Neighborhood
Youth and Parent Prevention Partnership Program
Developed
evaluation design, conducted neighborhood surveys and surveys
of board and committee members.
1990-91
Weight Loss Practices: Commercial Firms and Clinics Survey
Constructed and Carried
out survey of 800 weight loss organizations
to identify treatment and practice patterns
1990-91
Practitioner Involvement in Weight Loss
Treatment
Constructed and carried out survey of 1050
practitioners (physicians/
nurses/dietitians/psychologists) on weight loss
treatments and practices
1988-89 Michigan Department
of Public Health $7,500
Parental Participation Project
Constructed and carried out survey of parents of children with
special health care needs
1986 City of
Social Impact on Neighborhoods of Adult Entertainment
Constructed and carried out telephone and
face-to-face interviews,
and prepared report for City of
1986 Women Lawyers Assoc. of
Women
Lawyers Survey
Constructed
and carried out mail survey of women lawyers on
careers and professional memberships and orientations.
1985 City of
Four
Neighborhoods Survey
Constructed
and conducted survey regarding housing and
student-community relations.
Other Funded Evaluation
Research/Consulting: 1985- present
1999-00 Michigan Department
of Community Health, HIV-AIDS Prevention, and
US
Dept of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
Unmet
Needs of People Living with HIV and AIDS
Conceptualize
and define met and unmet needs; develop design for analyzing
matched data bases and analyze characteristics of those with met and unmet
needs
Consultant
1994-97 Michigan Public
Health Institute/
Children's
Special Health Care Services Survey
Review
design and items for survey of parents and care givers
Consultant
1994-96 Mich Health Care
Inst, Health Management Associates, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Rural
Health Services Initiative
Develop
evaluation design for five region demonstration project to improve rural health
services through community partnerships.
Consultant
/ Advisory Committee Member
1994 Michigan Public
Health Institute
Develop
evaluation design of program for adolescent health problems through community
coalitions, media campaign and curriculum.
Consultant/
Advisory Committee Member
1993-94 Michigan Public
Health Institute and R. W. Johnson Foundation
Local
Decision Maker Survey
Develop
and analyze survey on support by government officials for local ordinances
restricting sale / distribution of tobacco products.
Consultant
/ Advisory Committee Member
1992 Public Sector
Consultants and
Tobacco
Tax Survey
Develop
and analyze survey on support for increasing tobacco tax, targeting of funds, support for pro tax legislators.
Consultant/
Advisory Committee Member
1991-96 W.K. Kellogg
Foundation
Community
Partnerships: Health Professions Education
Initiative
to
train medical, nursing, social work and public health students
in
community based, comprehensive, primary health care setting
Cluster
Evaluation of Seven Sites
Evaluation
Team, Associate Director
1991-95 Mott Children's
Family
T.I.E.S. (Trust, Information, Encouragement, Support)
Longitudinal study of teenaged mothers and their
children in
Developed
evaluation design, Conducted evaluation
Co-Evaluator
1990 Catholic Diocese of
Chancery
Offices, Programs and Services Survey
Advised
on data analysis and wrote narrative report
Consultant
1989 CDM Group/
Targeted
Primary Prevention Demonstration Project
Identified
targets and comparisons (teen leaders and K-6 participants);
developed evaluation
instruments
Evaluation
Consultant
1988-89 COSMOS Corporation
and National Institute of Mental Health NIMH
AIDS
Training Programs for Health Care Providers
Assessed
secondary materials from 21 training sites, and provided technical assistance
to
selected sites.
Evaluation
Consultant
1988 American Public
Health Association
Survey
of State Affiliate Organizations
Constructed
questionnaire and analyzed results from survey of 42 state level affiliates
Member,
Survey Subcommittee
1987-90 Michigan Department
of Public Health
Constructed evaluation questionnaires for
teacher training and classroom implementation.
Collaborated in data analysis and
interpretation.
Evaluation
Specialist
1987-90
Healthy
University Health Promotion Program- Phase II
Responsible for co-ordination of sub-project
evaluations and overall program evaluation.
Evaluation
Coordinator
1986
Healthy
University Health Promotion Project- Phase I
Helped
design overall evaluation and construction of baseline Health Information Survey ).
Evaluation
Task Force Member
1985-86
Helped
construct Core Questions to be repeated each year and advised Survey
Coordinator on establishing survey
Policy
Committee Member
Research Articles:
“Leadership Behaviors for Successful
University-Community Collaborations to Change Curricula,” with Carole J. Blande, Sandra Starnaman, Larry
Hembroff, Rebecca Henry and Ronald W. Richards. Academic Medicine. 1999 74:11 (Nov) 1227-1237 .
"When
(Not If) Evaluation Flexibility is Desirable:
Examples from the CPHPE Initiative," with Larry Hembroff, Rebecca
Henry, Andrew J. Hogan, Carol Weissert, Carole J. Bland, Dona L. Harris, Jack
Knott, and Sandra M. Starnaman. Evaluation and the Health Professions. 1999 22:3
(Sept) 325-341.
"An
Overview of Citizen Participation in Health Planning: Lessons Learned from the Literature,"
with Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Paul P. Freddolino and Celeste Reed. National Civic Review 1998 87:4 (Winter) 347-367.
"The Social Ecology of Rural
Physicians," with Travis Fojtasek. Social
Insights. 1997
"The
Effects of a Family Support Program and Other Factors on the Home Environments
Provided by Adolescent Mothers," with Tom Luster, Marvin McKinney, Kathryn
Sims and Linda Juang, Family Relations:
Journal of Applied Family and Child Studies, 1996, 45 (July):
255-264.
"The
Development of the Hill-Burton Legislation:
Interests, Issues and Compromises," Journal of Health &
Social Policy, 1995, 6(3): 77-96.
"Now
That We Are Here: Discrimination,
Disparagement and Harassment at Work and the Experience of Women Lawyers,"
with Janet Rosenberg and William Phillips, Gender & Society, 1993,
7:3 (Sept): 415-433.
"Changes
in Status, Attitude and Behavior Toward Alcohol and Drugs on a University
Campus," with Larry A. Hembroff and Susan C. Zonia, Family & Community Health: The Journal of Health Promotion &
Maintenance, 1991, 14:1 (Apr): 44-62.
"Politics,
Feminism and Women's Professional Orientations:
A Case Study of Women Lawyers," with Janet Rosenberg and William
Phillips, Women & Politics, 1990, 10:4 (Fall):
19-48.
"Participation
in Neighborhood Associations," with Marvin
"The
Role of Public Opinion Polling in Health Legislation," with Russell E.
Holmes, American Journal of Public Health, 1987, 77:5 (May): 612-614.
"Co-Optation
and Cooperation Between Home Health Agencies and
Hospices," with Lenora Finn Paradis, The Hospice Journal, 1985, 1:1
(Spring): 45-54.
"Court
Decisions, Social Problems and Social Justice," The ALSA Forum (American
Legal Studies Assoc.), 1984, 8:2: 314-328.
"Class
Action Suits and Social Change: The Organization and Impact of the Hill-Burton
Cases," with Pamela
"Judicial
Influence on the Development of Health Policy:
The Case of Hill-Burton Litigation," with Pamela Shaheen International
Journal of Medicine and Law, 1982, 6:1 (Spring):
153-170.
"Emergency
Medical Services in Small Communities," with Lola Jean Kozak, Journal
of Community Health, 1977, 2:3 (Spring): 178-188.
"Health
Care Delivery Systems: Emergency
Medicine as Prototype."
with
Lola Jean Kozak, SOCIETY (Trans-action), 1977, 14:2 (Jan-Feb): 41-46.
"MCAT: A Gate in Admissions and Internship Placement,"
Journal of Medical Education, 1975, 50:1 (Jan): 78-81.
"Voluntary
Associations and the Community: The Case
of Volunteer Ambulance Corps", Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 1975,
4:1-2 (Jan-Apr): 85-89.
"Internship
Placements and Faculty Influence," Journal of Medical
Education, 1972, 47:11 (Nov):
862-868.
"Goal
Implementation and Outcome in
Chapters and
Essays:
"Citizen
Participation in Health Planning: A Case
Study of Changing Delivery Systems," with Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Paul P.
Freddolino and Celeste Reed in Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (ed), Research in the Sociology of Health Care
v.16. p 75-98,
"Accreditation of Sociology Programs: A Bridge to a Broader Audience," Canadian
Journal of Sociology, 1998.
23:1/1 195-207.
"Now
That We Are Here: Discrimination,
Disparagement and Harassment at Work and the Experience of Women Lawyers,"
with Janet Rosenberg and William Phillips, in Dana Dunn, ed., Workplace/Women's
Place: An Anthology,
"A
Brief History of the Formation of the Commission on Applied and Clinical
Sociology," in Stephen F. Steele and Joyce M. Iutcovich, (eds), Directions
in Applied Sociology Appendix F, p
327-331.
"Trends
in Medical and Nursing Education:
Faculty Attitudes on Multi-Professional Training," with Dona
Harris, Larry Hembroff, Carole Bland and Sandra Starnaman in Jennie Jacobs
Kronenfeld (ed), Research in the
Sociology of Health Care v.13 p 3-29, Greenwich, CT. JAI Press. 1996.
"Health
Index Validation Through Convergence of Alternative Index Construction
Approaches," with Larry Hembroff and Susan Zonia in Floyd J. Fowler, Jr.
(ed), Conference Proceedings: Health
Survey Research Methods, Pp 23-28, National Center for Health Services
Research, DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 89-3447, Sept. 1989.
"Public
Opinion Surveys on Smoking Restrictions:
1984 Michigan Survey," in Peter Hanauer, Glenn Barr and Stanton A.
Glantz, (eds), Legislative Approaches to a Smoke
Free Society: Appendix pp: N17-
69.
"Market
Structure and Outcome for Volunteer Ambulance Services," in Sam Cordes and
Raymond T. Coward, (eds.)
Emerging Issues in the Delivery of Rural Health
Services, Chapter 6 pp 58-65,
"On
the Incorporating the Non-Rational into Socio-Cybernetics" in Busch, John
A. and Busch, Gladys M., (eds). Issues in Sociocybernetics: Current Perspectives. pp. 61-68