Faculty/Staff Christopher R. Keane, ScD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Public Health
211 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-3128
Fax: 412-624-5510
E-mail: crkcity@pitt.edu




RESEARCH

My most recent research models the dynamics of trust and coordination in health decisions:

  •  Trust and coordination of food choices: I conducted an experiment, finding that people coordinate decisions with others in a way that dramatically alters their food choices, and increases their trust in others food choices.
  • Trust and coordination in emergency response: I developed a questionnaire now being field tested in public health systems. The questionnaire determines networks of trust, communication and coordination among emergency responders.
  • Computational models of the above, that can be used by anyone with a web browser, e.g., www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/School.html

    www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/Trust Health SimulationFeb12.html

    www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/School-Closure-Vaccine-Keane-Version-1.3.html

    www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/Smoking-Keane.html

    www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/Flocking-as-Mirrored-Search-1.2.html

    www.pitt.edu/~crkcity/Models/catching-ball-1.4.html

  • I’ve applied such modeling techniques to “dynamic community health assessment,” which includes assessment of the dynamics of not only disease but also cooperation in health planning. My interactive web-based models can facilitate “participatory modeling” of community health issues.
  • I apply my model of trust and cooperation to decisions to partner with other health organizations, e.g. a public health department’s decision to partner with or contract with a private organization. This is based largely on my prior research on local health department privatization. 
  • I describe my model of trust and cooperation in a draft book and paper, describing how people and organizations coordinate their reactions to different health-related intentions and situations.
  • I’m attempting to examine trust, altruism coordination in HIV prevention, in another current project.

Other Ongoing Areas of Expertise

In addition to trust and cooperatoin in health decisions, compuational modeling, public health systems, and dynamic community health assessment, I continue to list health program evaluation as one of my areas of expertise. Specifically, I have participated in the evaluation of several areas of health services including: children’s health insurance program, breastfeeding promotion, geriatric care, early head start, community health promotion, HIV prevention, privatization in local health departments, and an evaluation of privatization in a state health department.

TEACHING

I teach BCHS 2563 Social Action Approaches to Community Health Assessment.

SERVICE

I am a peer reviewer for JAMA, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. I serve on the doctoral committee in our department. I have regularly advised and worked with many community organizations, health departments, governmental organizations, and University faculty on topics such as research methodology, privatization, partnering, and the role of health departments as providers of care to the uninsured.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Keane C. and Weerasinghe, M. C. 2008. Keane C R and Weerasinghe M C Public/Private Mix in Health Systems. In: Kris Heggenhougen and Stella Quah, editors International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol 5. San Diego: Academic Press; 2008. pp. 440-447.
  • Keane C.  2005.  The Effects of Managerial Beliefs on Service Privatization and Discontinuation in Local Health Departments.  Health Care Management Review 30(1), Jan/Mar: 52-61. 
  • Keane C, Marx J, Ricci E. 2003. Local Health Departments’ Mission to the Uninsured in the Age of Managed Care: Results of a National Survey. Journal of Public Health Policy 24 (2): 130-149.
  • Keane C, Marx J, Ricci E. 2003. Managerial and Professional Beliefs Influencing Public Health Privatization: Results of a National Survey of Local Health Department Directors. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 97-110.
  • Keane, C. Marx J, Ricci E. 2002. The Privatization of Environmental Health Services. Public Health Reports 117: 62-68.
  • Keane C, Marx J, Ricci E. 2002. Public Health Privatization: Proponents, Resisters and Decision-makers. Journal of Public Health Policy 23 (2): 133-152.
  • Lave, J; Keane, C et al. 2002. The Impact of Dental Benefits in a Children’s Health Insurance Program on the Use of Dental Services in Western Pennsylvania. Pediatric Dentristy 24:3:234-240.
  • Keane C, Marx J, Ricci E, Barron G. 2002. The Perceived Impact of Privatization on Local Health Departments. American Journal of Public Health 92: 1178-1180.
  • Keane C, Marx J, Ricci E. 2002. The Services Privatized in Local Health Departments. American Journal of Public Health 92: 1250-1254.
  • Keane, C.  2001. Managerial Hegemony, Cultural Change, and the Transformation of Infant Care Advice in the United States in the Twentieth Century. International Journal of Health Services 31(1): 167-186.
  • Keane, C; Marx, J; Ricci, E. 2001. Privatization and the Scope of Public Health. American Journal of Public Health  91(4): 611-617.
  • Keane, C; Marx, J; Ricci, E.  2001. Perceived Outcomes of Privatization in Local Health Departments. Milbank Quarterly 79(1): 115-137.
  • Keane C, Lave J, Ricci E,  LaVallee C. 1999. The Impact of a Children’s Health Insurance Program by Age. Pediatrics. 1999; 104(5)1051-1058.
  • Keane C. 1998. Globality and Constructions of World Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 12(2):226-240.
  • Lave J, Keane C, et al. 1998 The Impact of a Children’s Health Insurance Program on Newly Enrolled Children. Journal of the American Medical Association. 279(22)1820-1825 (June 10, 1998 issue).
  • Lave J, Keane C, et al. 1998. The Impact of Lack of Health Insurance on Children. Journal of Health and Social Policy, Vol 10(2):57-73.
  • Saxton J, Silverman M, Ricci E, Keane C, Deeley B. 1998. Maintenance of Mobility in Residents of an Alzheimer Special Care Facility. International Psychogeriatrics. Vol. 10(2):213.
  • McDowell J, Silverman M, Martin D, Musa D, Keane C.  1994. Identification and Intervention for Urinary Incontinence by Community Physicians and Geriatric Assessment Teams. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Vol. 42, No. 5, pp.501-505.

Books in Progress and Book Chapters

  • The Universal Search for Health and Beauty: The Dynamics of Higher Order Harmonizing in Body, Mind and Society. 2009.
  • Keane C. 2008. Globality and Constructions of World Health. in International Library of Essays in Anthropology: Medical Anthropology. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-7546-2655-8
  • Keane, Christopher. Managing America. Contract offered by the New England University Press (and Academica Press).
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