Our Teaching Faculty
Rohini Pahwa, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program
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
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
Wen-Jui Han, PhD, MSW
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Social welfare policy, with an emphasis on children and families; effects of maternal employment and child care on children's cognitive and social and emotional outcomes; impact of welfare reform and child care subsidies on families; precarious parental work, parental work schedules, and child well-being; cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes of children in immigrant families; quantitative research methods; use of large-scale longitudinal data
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
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
Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services; recovery; person-centered care; case management; primary and behavioral healthcare integration; mental health policy
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.
Rohini Pahwa, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program
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
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
Kiara L. Moore, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mental health treatment disparities among adolescents and young adults of color and among LGBTQ+ youth, mental health services research
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
Kathrine Sullivan, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: The impact of trauma on the children and families of military service members
Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services; recovery; person-centered care; case management; primary and behavioral healthcare integration; mental health policy