Associate Professor
bhalotra@brandeis.edu
Heller
109
781-736-3960
Courses
- HS 238f - MS Capstone II
- HS 249f - Social Justice, Management, and Policy
- HS 276f - World Health
- HS 311a - Management of Aging Services and Delivery
- HS 508f - Managed Care
- HSSP 92b - Internship and Analysis
- HSSP 102a - Global Perspectives on Health
- HSSP 110a - Integrative Seminar on Health
Scholarship
- Bhalotra, Sarita. ""Chapter 6: Prevention",." Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Health Management for Older Adults. Ed. David Satin, MD. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009
- Bhalotra S; Ruwe MB; Strickler GK, Ryan A, Hurley C. "Disparities in utilization of coronary artery disease treatment by gender, race, and ethnicity: opportunities for prevention." Journal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA (J Natl Black Nurses Assoc) 2007 Jul; 18(1): 36-49 (2008).
- Cohen, N, Bhalotra S, Chilingerian JA. "Implementing an Advanced Surgery Program at a Tertiary Care Regional Medical Center: Leading Change and the Liabilities of Newness." INSEAD Business Case, European Case Clearing House, July 2007 (2008).
- Capitman, J., Bhalotra, S., Ruwe, M.. Cancer and Elders of Color: Opportunities for Reducing Health Disparities: Evidence Review and Recommendations for Research and Policy. Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005.
- Bhalotra, S.. "Book Review: How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (edited by OG Brim, CD Ryff, RC Kessler)." The New England Journal of Medicine 351. 23 (2004): 2460-2461.
- Bhalotra, S.. "Book Review: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (by P Farmer)." Psychiatric Services 55. 8 (2004): 950.
- Capitman, J., Bhalotra, S., Calderon-Rosado, V., et al.,. CMS Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration in Ethnic and Racial Minorities. Heller School, Brandeis University. Waltham, MA: 2002.
- Bhalotra, S., Mutschler, P.. "Primary Prevention for Older Adults: No Longer a Paradox." Journal of Aging and Social Policy 12. 2 (2001): 5-22.
- Bhalotra, S., Sciegaj, M.. Reintegrating the Spiritual Dimension of Human Experience in Mental Health and Aging. Proc. of Mental Health and Aging: Meeting New Challenges. Syracuse, NY: Upstate Medical University: 2000.
- Mutschler, P., Bhalotra, S.. What's Age Got to Do with It? Communicating with Women about Health Care Risks. Proc. of Mental Health and Aging: Meeting New Challenges. Syracuse, NY: Upstate Medical University, 2000.
- Tompkins, C.P., Bhalotra, S., Trisolini, M.. "Applying Disease Management Strategies to Medicare." Milbank Quarterly 77. 4 (1999): 461-484.
- Tompkins, C.P., Bhalotra, S., Garnick, D.W., Chilingerian, J.A.. "Physician Profiling in Group Practices." Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 19. 4 (1996): 28-39.
- Tompkins, C.P., Wallack, S.S., Bhalotra, S., Chilingerian, J.A., Glavin, M.P.V., Ritter, G., Hodgkin, D.. "Bringing Managed Care Incentives to Medicare's Fee-for-Service Sector." Health Care Financing Review 17. 4 (1996): 43-63.
Profile
Dr. Bhalotra is an Associate Professor at the Heller School, Brandeis University. She received her medical degree from Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, and is certified by the United States Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. She also holds a Master's degree in Health Administration from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Bhalotra was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University, and received her doctorate in Social Welfare Policy (Health) at the Heller School, Brandeis University.
Dr. Bhalotra is an experienced health services researcher, policy analyst and educator. Before coming to Brandeis University, she worked extensively with integrated clinical and financial information systems. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, her research projects have included working with large multi-specialty groups, hospitals, and managed care organizations on the financing and delivery of health care, service delivery and financing issues of end-stage renal disease, evaluation of programs for cardiovascular disease management, racial/ethnic disparities in health, and the organizational and provider factors influencing the adoption of new technology. Currently, her focus is on evaluating the organizational and systemic factors affecting the implementation of lifestyle modification programs, using multi-method case study, interview, and survey methodology, as well as analyzing the organizational and physician factors that affect the dissemination of new addictions treatments in substance abuse.
Dr. Bhalotra's educational activities include Committee work on PhD dissertations, and advising students in all four of Heller's graduate programs, as also Brandeis' undergraduates who have declared a major in Health: Science, Society, and Policy. Among the management and policy classes that she teaches and has taught are Managed Care, Health Services and Policy (U.S.); Evaluation, World Health, Quality Management in Health Care Organizations, Ambulatory Care Management, Management of Health Care Organizations, the MBA Cornerstone Course on Social Justice and Management, the MBA Capstone Course in Social Policy and Management, and the MS Capstone Course in International Health Policy and Management. She also teaches Global Health to undergraduates. She is Director for the Brandeis Health Leaders' Program for physicians, sponsored by the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Bhalotra has lived in the United States since 1975, and is a naturalized citizen.
Degrees
Brandeis University
Ph.D.
Clark University
M.H.A.
University of Delhi
M.B.,B.S
Awards and Honors
- Bertha Reynolds Fellow, Smith College School for Social Work (2008)
- China Faculty Study Abroad Award (2006)