Diana R Silver | NYU School of Global Public Health

Diana R Silver

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Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs

Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

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

The geometry of motor vehicle deaths in the United States

Child passenger safety laws in the United States, 1978-2010: Policy diffusion in the absence of strong federal intervention

Fifty-state survey of child passenger safety laws in the US, 1978-2010: A public health approach to analyzing legal intruments

Utilization patterns and perceptions of playground users in New York City

Good Evaluation Measures: More Than Their Psychometric Properties

The effects of state regulations and alcohol consumption on traffic fatalities 1980-2010

Variation in U.S. traffic safety policy environments and motor vehicle fatalities 1980-2010

How residential mobility and school choice challenge assumptions of neighborhood place-based interventions

Improving state health policy assessment: An agenda for measurement and analysis

Transportation to clinic: Findings from a pilot clinic-based survey of low-income suburbanites

Lifting boatswithout closing gaps: Child health outcomes in distressed us cities from 1992-2002

People versus place, tackling urban poverty: Guest blog for Media Matters

Understanding the political context of "new" policy issues: The use of the advocacy coalition framework in the case of expanded after-school programs

Finding the impact in a messy intervention: Using an integrated design to evaluate a comprehensive citywide health initiative

The pros and cons of comprehensive community Initiatives at the city level: The case of the urban health Initiative

If you build it, will they come?: Estimating unmet demand for after-school programs in america's distressed cities

Efforts to improve public policy and programs through data practice: Experiences in 15 distressed American cities

Following the money: Using expenditure analysis as an evaluation tool

Integrating a comparison group design into a theory of change evalutation

Integrating a comparison group design into a theory of change evaluation: The case of the urban health initiative

Setting an agenda for local action: The limits of expert opinion and community voice

Health promotion in the city: A structured review of the literature on interventions to prevent heart disease, substance abuse, violence and HIV infection in US metropolitan areas, 1980-1995