ATHENS, Ga.
– Paul Roman, director for the Center for Research on Behavioral Health and
Human Services Delivery at the University
of Georgia’s Institute for Behavioral
Research, has been named to the national Blueprint for States Policy Panel, a
group that will examine alcohol and drug problems in the United States.
Roman, who is also a Distinguished Research Professor of
Sociology, will join the panel’s chair, former Democratic presidential nominee
Michael Dukakis, and a number of others in research, service and elected
office. The group held its first meeting in Boston
in December and is holding public hearings this month and February in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
also in Washington, D.C., in February.
Roman received his doctoral degree from Cornell University
and has been on the UGA faculty since 1986.
The panel chaired by Dukakis will help determine which state
organizational and financial structures most effectively support policies to
treat and prevent substance-use problems, which affect an estimated 37 million
Americans.
The group’s report is due in June.
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