Deborah W Garnick

Deborah Garnick has thirty years of research experience, largely focused on healthcare quality and the development of performance measures. Currently, she is focused on teaching in Brandeis graduate, undergraduate and executive education programs. She has directed the Brandeis sub-contract for a project focused on developing and testing performance measures for Medicaid. Several projects were focused on investigating the association of process measures focused on the timing and quantity of treatment services for substance use disorders and outcomes. With funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she directed teams that contributed to the literature on the association of engagement in treatment with multiple outcomes including arrests, employment, drug and substance use. With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and as a component project of the The Brandeis/Harvard Center to Improve System Performance of Substance Use Disorder Treatment, she directed a team collaborating with Washington State to randomize public treatment agencies to study the impact of financial supports for improving substance abuse treatment performance rates compared with sending providers alerts for achieving higher performance, both interventions, and a control arm.