PI: Christina Mangurian
Collaborators: Dean Schillinger, Grace Niu, Eric Vittinghoff, James Dilley, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Penny Knapp, Evan Trager, Melanie Thomas, Walker Keenan, Jennifer Creasman, Francine Cournos
Health Delivery System Partner: California Department of Healthcare Services

The goal of California’s CalMEND project was to encourage integration of care throughout the state. Dr. Mangurian partnered with Dr. Penny Knapp—the Medical Director of the California Department of Public Health—to evaluate this project. Dr. Mangurian has a cohort of close to 60,000 people with severe mental illness taking antipsychotic medications and receiving care in community mental health settings. She is examining health care received by this population, specifically diabetes screening, HIV testing, Hepatitis C testing, pap screening, mammogram screening, and health care utilization. The results from this project will help identify gaps in care for this vulnerable population.

The CalMEND Data study is funded by an NIH Career Development Award (K23MH093689) and the UCSF Hellman Fellows Award for Early-Career Faculty.