Diana R Silver

Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs

Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

Dr. Diana Silver's research explores the impact of variation in the implementation, adoption and repeal of state and local public health policies on health outcomes, particularly alcohol consumption, motor vehicle crashes, tobacco use, and food safety. Some of her other work has examined variation in access to publicly funded services such as clinics, after-school programs, parks and playgrounds. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and several other funders.

Dr. Silver's work has been published in a variety of prominent journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, the American Journal of Health Promotion, Public Health, Tobacco Control, Journal of Safety Research, Social Science and Medicine, the American Journal of Evaluation, PLoS One, Journal of Community Health, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health,  International Journal of Equity in Health, Globalization and Health, Youth and Society, Public Administration Review and Policy Studies Journal. She is an associate editor for the American Journal of Health Promotion, and serves on the New York City Department of Health’s Health Advisory Committee. She began her career focused on the developing policies and programs that could address the epidemics of AIDS, substance abuse and violence in New York City, in such settings as schools, workplaces, jails, and homeless shelters.

Dr. Silver teaches undergraduate and master’s level courses at the School of Global Health, and trains doctoral students. In 2015, Dr. Silver received NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence.

Education

BA, History, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

MPH, Health Education, Hunter College, New York City, NY

PhD, Public Administration, New York University, New York City, NY

Honors and awards

Distinguished Teaching Award, New York University (2015)

Steinhardt Goddard Award (2011)

Annual Award for Outstanding Evaluation, American Evaluation Association (2010)

Public Affairs Resident Scholar, The Rockefeller Foundation (2007)

Areas of research and study

Access to Healthcare

Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving Policies

Food Safety Policies

Implementation and Impact of Public Health Regulations

Injury Prevention

New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Public Health Law

Public Health Policy

Publications

Publications

An assessment of court fees, surcharges, and penalties for alcohol-impaired driving in five midwestern U.S. states: implications for exacerbating poverty and health inequalities

Beyond Laws: Governors’ Roles in Shaping State Firearm Environments, 2020–2022

COVID-19 Vaccine Information Seeking Patterns and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Latent Class Analysis to Inform Practice

Enrollment Patterns of Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries by Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefits

Examining the relationship between social determinants of health, measures of structural racism and county-level overdose deaths from 2017–2020

Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Mental Health Treatment Among Low-income Adults Across Racial/Ethnic Subgroups, 2010–2017

Mental Health Referrals Among Medicare Advantage Enrollees Receiving Home-Based Annual Wellness Visits in Puerto Rico During the COVID-19 Pandemic

One year later: What role did trust in public officials and the medical profession play in decisions to get a booster and to overcome vaccine hesitancy?

Policy dissemination and implementation research

Protocol for creating a dataset of U.S. state alcohol-related firearm laws 2000–2022

The Impact of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations on Health Care Utilization, Quality Measures, Health Outcomes and Costs from 2012 to 2023: A Scoping Review

Firearm Laws Enacted by Municipalities in 6 States With Diverse Policy Frameworks

Is patients' trust in clinicians related to patient-clinician racial/ethnic or gender concordance?

Recreational cannabis legislation and binge drinking in U.S. adolescents and adults

Stakeholder Perspectives on Data-Driven Solutions to Address Cardiovascular Disease and Health Equity in New York City

The Diffusion of Punitive Firearm Preemption Laws Across U.S. States

Uses of Social Determinants of Health Data to Address Cardiovascular Disease and Health Equity: A Scoping Review

Variance of US Hospital Characteristics by Safety-Net Definition

Association between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and trust in the medical profession and public health officials

Determinants of the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy spectrum

Do alcohol policies affect everyone equally? An assessment of the effects of state policies on education-related patterns of alcohol use, 2011–2019

Federal Paid Sick Leave Is Needed to Support Prevention and Public Health and Address Inequities

Generational differences in beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines

How Patient-Centered Medical Homes Integrate Dental Services Into Primary Care: A Scoping Review

State Paid Sick Leave and Paid Sick-Leave Preemption Laws Across 50 U.S. States, 2009–2020