Our Faculty

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

Jennifer Manuel, PhD

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise: Co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders; integrated behavioral health systems and services; services and intervention research; implementation research

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

Assistant 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

Professor

Areas of Expertise: Mental health services research; Medicaid policy; child welfare