• education AB (Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality), Harvard University, 2005
    MSW (Clinical Social Work; certificate in Behavioral Medicine), Boston University School of Social Work, 2012
    MPH (Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights), Boston University School of Public Health, 2016

Heidi Bruggink Sulman, MSW, MPH, LCSW is currently a doctoral student studying social policy at the Brandeis University Heller School of Social Policy and Management, where she is a National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Ms. Sulman most recently served as a Program Manager at the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission and as a clinical social worker at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Ms. Sulman’s research interests include behavioral health / health policy; care delivery and payment reform; quality evaluation and improvement; care integration; substance use disorder; and population health management. Current research includes work with the Harvard-Brandeis National Institute on Drug Abuse Center to Improve System Performance of Substance Use Disorder Treatment. She is a past recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Institute Public Policy Fellowship.

Courses

WP 701 Social Welfare Policy II

Publications

Group Insurance Commission Vendor Quality Improvement Report: A Report to the Legislature for Fiscal Year 2016. www.mass.gov/anf/docs/gic/annual-report/fy2016-vendor-qualityimprovement-report.pdf.

“Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake: Don’t Give Up Your Day Job.” (2008, as H. Bruggink). In S. Shaw & J. Lee (Eds.), Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings (chapter 55). New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

“Abstinence-Only Funding (Finally) Set to Expire—But Don't Applaud Quite Yet.” (2008, as H. Bruggink) In D.E. Nelson (Ed.), Teens and Sex (53-57). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage.

Numerous articles (as H. Bruggink), Judicial Reports, The Hill, The New York Observer, The Humanist.

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