Faculty
Ralph DiClemente
Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Dean of Public Health Innovation
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Ralph DiClemente focuses on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability.
David B Abrams
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. David Abrams focuses on systems thinking and social learning theory conceptual approaches to health enhancement and chronic disease prevention.
David Abramson
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. David Abramson's work focuses on population health issues associated with disaster-related or stressor-related recovery and resiliency.
Ana Abraido-Lanza
Vice Dean of the School of Global Public Health
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Ana Abraído-Lanza's research interests include studying the cultural, psychological, social, and structural factors that affect health, psychological well-being, and mortality among Latinos.
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Mari Armstrong-Hough is Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Julie Anne Avina
Senior Associate Dean, Student and Alumni Affairs
Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health
As Senior Associate Dean of Student & Alumni Affairs, Julie Avina oversees the student experience as an advisor and mentor to our students.
Jennifer Cantrell
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jennifer Cantrell, DrPH, MPA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Virginia W Chang
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Virginia Chang focuses on obesity and health disparities; the association of obesity with mortality and disability; and the relationships between health, medical technologies, and stratification.
Linda Collins
Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Linda Collins’ interests are in the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy, a framework to optimize behavioral and social-structural interventions.
Stephanie Cook
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Stephanie Cook’s research focus is to understand how structural- and individual-level minority stressors contribute to mental health, physical health, and health behaviors across the life span.
Karyn E Faber
Director of Undergraduate Experiential Learning
Director of Public Health Practice
Clinical Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Karyn E. Faber's areas of expertise are program planning, implementation, management, and evaluation in varied settings including community-based organizations and philanthropic entities.
Holly Hagan
Professor
Dr. Hagan’s research has examined blood-borne and sexually-transmitted infections among people who use drugs, and her work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of substance use disorders.
Thomas Kirchner
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Kirchner uses mobile and GIS technologies to study the way neighborhood risk and protective factors affect health-related behavior and decision making in real-world contexts.
Alexis A Merdjanoff
Clinical Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
At the intersection of public health and sociology, Dr. Merdjanoff work explores how social inequalities shape the impact of disaster on health, recovery, and resiliency.
Cheryl Merzel
Director of Doctor of Public Health Program
Clinical Associate Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Community Health Science & Practice Concentration
Cheryl Merzel has over 30 years’ experience in public health research, evaluation, program development, advocacy, and education.
Joyce Moon Howard
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health Science and Practice
Dr. Joyce Moon Howard's work seeks to understand community needs and is rooted in the community healthcare movement.
Raymond S Niaura
Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Raymond Niaura studies the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories.
Nina S Parikh
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Nina Parikh examines social, psychosocial, and cultural factors impacting ethnic-racial populations and developing strategies that mitigate inequities among the uninsured, immigrants, and elderly.
Emmanuel Peprah
Director of Implementation Science for Global Health
Assistant Professor of Global Health
Dr. Emmanuel Peprah’s research interests lie at the confluence of understanding what, why, and how some evidence-based interventions work in some populations and not others.
Lawrence H Yang
Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Global Center for Implementation Science
Founding Director, Global Mental Health and Stigma Program
Dr. Larry Yang explores global mental health and how culture relates to stigma, in order to implement interventions that improve recovery from stigmatizing conditions, such as mental illness and HIV.
Staff
| Katrien Mattis, MA | Program Administrator | katrien.mattis@nyu.edu 212-992-3725 |
| Julianne Rocco, MPH | Administrative Aide | jr5080@nyu.edu 212-992-6330 |