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Dr. Métraux’s research interests centers around urban health, especially in the context of issues such as homelessness and housing, community mental health, and incarceration and prisoner reentry. These interests were shaped by 8 years working in homeless and indigent substance abusing populations, after which he received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Métraux’s research currently involves using large administrative data sets to assess patterns of services use in homeless, mental health, and corrections systems and consults with local jurisdictions to evaluate programming in these areas and their related costs.

In addition to teaching in USP’s Health Policy Program, Dr. Métraux is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and holds adjunct faculty positions in Penn’s Psychiatry department and Urban Studies program.