Stephen Bartels, MD, MS
Director, The Mongan Institute
James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 1600
Boston, Mass, 02114
sjbartels@mgh.harvard.edu
Stephen Bartels MD, MS is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health, Director of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Mongan Institute serves as the academic home for 12 research centers and over 145 research faculty and research fellows at MGH dedicated to training and research in population and health care delivery team science aimed at achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs. The Mongan Institute bridges research spanning data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation science including a variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention and implementation research. Over the academic 2021-2022 year, Mongan Institute faculty published over 1600 peer reviewed articles and as principal investigators were responsible for over $108M in research funding. (https://www.monganinstitute.org/ )
Before coming to MGH from Dartmouth in 2018, he was the Herman O West Professor of Geriatrics, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Professor of Health Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. At Dartmouth he established and directed the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and served as Co-Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Science Institute, Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s CDC Health Promotion Research Center, and Principal Investigator for two T32 post-doctoral research training programs.
Dr. Bartels has authored over 365 publications and has mentored over 50 early career investigators. Over the past several decades he has led productive research developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, and implementation science. As a national expert on implementation research he previously served as Chair for the National Institute of Health Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (DIRH) Study Section and currently oversees the implementation research and training program at the Mongan Institute and serves as Co-PI for the Methods Unit for a NCI P50 “Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity”.