FACULTY
Lawrence H Yang
Chair and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Global Center for Implementation Science
Founding Director, Global Mental Health and Stigma Program
Dr. Lawrence Yang explores global mental health and how culture relates to stigma, to implement interventions that improve recovery from stigmatizing conditions, such as mental illness and HIV.
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 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.
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Associate Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology
Dr. Mari Armstrong-Hough’s research examines the epidemiological interfaces of tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases among high-burden populations.
Jennifer Cantrell
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Jennifer Cantrell investigates emerging trends in tobacco and nicotine use and industry marketing, clinical countermarketing and policy interventions to diminish tobacco's appeal and promote health equity.
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 of 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
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Dr. Stephanie Cook's research focuses on understanding the complex relationship between stress, health, and social determinants of health across the lifespan.
Adolfo Cuevas
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Adolfo Cuevas focuses on how psychosocial stressors affect health across the lifespan, employing epidemiological, psychological, and biological approaches to explore these relationships.
Ralph DiClemente
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.
Karyn E Faber
Director of Undergraduate Experiential Learning
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.
Kate Guastaferro
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization
Director of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program
Dr. Guastaferro's work is devoted to the development, optimization, and implementation of readily implementable interventions focused on the prevention of child maltreatment.
Thomas Kirchner
Associate 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
Director of the Environmental Public Health Program
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.
Joyce Moon Howard
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Community Health Science and Practice
Interim Director 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
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.
Jillian Strayhorn
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Jillian Strayhorn's research focuses on the complex multi-criteria decision-making that goes into optimizing interventions to achieve public health impact.
Staff
| Katrien Mattis, MA | Program Administrator | katrien.mattis@nyu.edu |
| Miriam Romero | Administrative Aide | mr6501@nyu.edu |
| Laura Wallace | Administrative Aide | lw67@nyu.edu |