Biography

David Rosenbloom, Ph.D.
Director, Join Together and Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

David L. Rosenbloom, Ph.D., is the Director of Join Together, a program of the Boston University School of Public Health, which helps communities fight substance abuse and gun violence. Join Together's award winning website Join Together Online (www.jointogether.org) has become the nation's dominant electronic publisher of information on substance abuse. The Demand Treatment! program, launched by Join Together, is a multi-year effort to drive up the demand for alcohol and drug treatment and intervention in American Communities. Join Together also manages the Fighting Back National Program Office. Funding for these programs is provided primarily by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Mr. Rosenbloom is also Professor of Public Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, adjunct lecturer at Brandeis University, and a member of the National Institute on Drug Abuse National Advisory Council. He is a Director of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Stop Handgun Violence. In addition, he founded Community Medical Alliance, a direct provider and insurer of medical care for people with catastrophic illness. From 1975 to 1983, he was Commissioner of Health and Hospitals for the City of Boston. In that capacity he served as the public health officer and CEO of the city's public delivery system, including Boston City Hospital, 22 neighborhood health centers, and the emergency medical system. From 1984 to 1988 he was Vice President, and then President, of the Health Data Institute, a private company that pioneered the clinical analysis of medical claims data and developed many of the managed care tools and techniques used throughout the country today.

Mr. Rosenbloom grew up in Albany, New York. He received a B.A. from Colgate University in 1965 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He was Assistant Professor of Government at Hamilton College and Director of Hamilton's Washington Semester Program from 1970 to 1973. Mr. Rosenbloom is the author of numerous books and articles on elections, health care, and substance abuse. He is married to Alice Richmond. They have a daughter, Betsy.