Our Teaching Faculty
Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services; recovery; person-centered care; case management; primary and behavioral healthcare integration; mental health policy
Doris F. Chang, PhD, MA, BA
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Improving well-being of racial and ethnic minorities; Asian American mental health; mindfulness and other contemplative approaches to the development of critical consciousness in clinical and educational settings
Marya Gwadz, PhD, MA
Professor; Associate Dean for Research
Areas of Expertise: Social/behavioral interventions to improve health equity; culturally appropriate interventions; multiphase optimization strategy (MOST); adaptive intervention designs; reducing disparities in HIV incidence, prevalence, and health outcomes; poverty
Michelle R. Munson, PhD, LMSW, BA
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services and interventions research; mood, anxiety, trauma and stress-related disorders; influence of social relationships; social isolation; service use decisions; developmental transition from adolescence to adulthood
Deborah K. Padgett, PhD, MPH, MA, BA
Professor; McSilver Faculty Fellow; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Anthropology and College of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise: Homeless adults with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders; qualitative and mixed methods; mental health services research
Rohini Pahwa, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Serious mental illness; mental health services; cross-cultural and cross-national research; community integration; stigma; health vulnerabilities in people with serious mental illness; social network analysis; quantitative and mixed methods
Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, MD, MBBS
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services research with attention to the needs of vulnerable children in the child welfare system
PhD Program Faculty Committee
The NYU Silver PhD Program has a distinguished faculty committee with diverse research programs, from developing evidence-informed clinical interventions to addressing poverty and inequality.
Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services; recovery; person-centered care; case management; primary and behavioral healthcare integration; mental health policy
Marya Gwadz, PhD, MA
Professor; Associate Dean for Research
Areas of Expertise: Social/behavioral interventions to improve health equity; culturally appropriate interventions; multiphase optimization strategy (MOST); adaptive intervention designs; reducing disparities in HIV incidence, prevalence, and health outcomes; poverty
Darcey Merritt, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Public child welfare system; addressing issues that include child maltreatment, parental fears and concerns, and optimal parenting in low socio-economic and under resourced environments; understanding parental perspectives regarding the etiology of child neglect and the impact on parent and child well being; domestic violence; correlates of specific types of child maltreatment; decision making processes of neglectful parenting behavior
Michelle R. Munson, PhD, LMSW, BA
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services and interventions research; mood, anxiety, trauma and stress-related disorders; influence of social relationships; social isolation; service use decisions; developmental transition from adolescence to adulthood
Rohini Pahwa, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Serious mental illness; mental health services; cross-cultural and cross-national research; community integration; stigma; health vulnerabilities in people with serious mental illness; social network analysis; quantitative and mixed methods
Kathrine Sullivan, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: The impact of trauma on the children and families of military service members