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

Suzanne England, PhD, MSW

Professor

Areas of Expertise: Aging; dementia; memory; policy narrative; social media in social work; leadership and practical ethics in nonprofits

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

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

S. Lala Straussner, PhD, LCSW

Professor; Director, Post-Master’s Certificate Program in the Clinical Approaches to Addictions; Founding Editor, Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

Areas of Expertise: Substance abuse; mass violence and trauma; mental health; international social work; occupational social work/employee assistance programs; women’s issues; family dynamics; social work education