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; social network analysis; qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
Ruopeng An, PhD, MPP
Constance and Martin Silver Endowed Professor in Data Science and Prevention; Director, Constance and Martin Silver Center on Data Science and Social Equity
Areas of Expertise: Environmental influences and population-level interventions on obesity, weight-related behaviors and outcomes across the life course; Social and economic determinants and policies affecting physical, mental, and cognitive health in children, adults of all ages, and individuals with disabilities; Applications of artificial intelligence and data analytics for public health and social equity; Using data and statistical research methods to evaluate the effects of policies; Systematic review and meta-analysis to identify and appraise existing research.
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
Jordan DeVylder, PhD, MSSW
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Social Epidemiology of Psychosis and Suicide; Risk for Suicide among People with Psychotic Symptoms; Prevention and Early Intervention for Psychosis; Police Violence from a Public Health Perspective
Ana T. Flores, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services for serious mental illness in diverse communities; Latine mental health and intersectional disparities in serious mental illness; Developing and using research tools and interventions that are valid and reliable across different cultural groups; Community engagement and implementation
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
Ifrah Magan, PhD, AM, BS
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Refugee and immigrant communities; health and mental health equity of Black, Muslim, and refugee populations; intersectionality and migration; parenting and child development; qualitative community-based participatory research methodologies; global social work
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