Dr. William H. Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director of
the Center for Mental Health Services Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). He is also Professor of Clinical and
Population Health Research for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMMS, and
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University Massachusetts
School of Public Health in Amherst. His major research interests include research on
systems involved with severely mentally ill adults; mental health policy and law; the
interface of the criminal justice and mental health systems; social deviance and social
control; statistical analysis and research methodology; and social epidemiology of mental
disorders.

Featured Articles

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Risk of Arrest Among Public Mental Health Services Recipients and the General Public (with Lorna J. Simon, Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski, Albert J. Grudzinskas Jr., Nancy Wolff, Emily Crockett, and Steven M. Banks), Psychiatric Services (2011)
 

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The changing role of the state psychiatric hospital (with Jeffrey L. Geller and John A. Pandiani), Health affairs (Project Hope) (2009)
 

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Medicaid Enrollment Rates Among Individuals Arrested in the State of Florida Before and at the Time of Arrest (with John Petrila, Diane Haynes, Jing Guo, Charles Dion, and Nicolette Springer), Psychiatric Services (2011)
 

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Categorizing Temporal Patterns of Arrest in a Cohort of Adults with Serious Mental Illness (with Steven M. Banks, Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski, Albert J. Grudzinskas, Lorna J. Simon, and Nancy Wolff), The journal of behavioral health services and research (2010)
 

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Emerging Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities Involved With the Criminal Justice System (with Stephanie W. Hartwell and Maryann Davis), International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology (2010)
 

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Commentary: civil commitment statutes--40 years of circumvention (with Thomas Grisso), The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2010)
 

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Prevalence of criminal thinking among state prison inmates with serious mental illness (with Robert D. Morgan, Naihua Duan, Jon T. Mandracchia, and Danielle Murray), Law and human behavior (2010)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Introduction: Children, Adolescents, and Mental Health Services Research: An Overview of Emerging Perspective, Research on Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents (2006)
 

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E Pluribus Unum: Creating a Multi-Organizational Structure for Serving Arrestees with Serious Mental Illness (with Jonathan C. Clayfield, Albert J. Grudzinskas Jr., and Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski), The Organizational Response to Persons with Mental Illness Involved with the Criminal Justice System (2005)
 

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Introduction: Work and Mental Illness – A Brief Sociological and Historical Overview, Research on Employment for Persons with Severe Mental Illness (2004)
 

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Community Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Involvement Among Persons with Mental Illness (with Nancy Wolff and Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski), Community-Based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness (2002)
 

Posters and Presentations

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Using Criminal Justice Involvement as a Mental Health Outcome Measure: Issues in Interpretation and Measurement, Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting (2008)