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Ramesh Raghavan

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 Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work
PhD, MD, MBBS
raghavan@nyu.edu
Areas of Expertise：
Access to health services, quality of care, Medicaid policy, implementation science, child well-being.
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|  Biography

Ramesh Raghavan is a Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work. Dr. Raghavan conducts mental health services research on the needs of vulnerable children. His work spans studies of access to mental health services, quality of care, economic evaluation of implementation strategies, and child well-being. He is the former chair of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Mental Health Services Research review committee, and currently serves on the editorial board of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. He is co-author, along with Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, of the book Investing in Children’s Mental Health (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Prior to joining NYU Silver, Dr. Raghavan was a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers School of Social Work, and a member of the core faculty of the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. In early 2015, he served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working primarily on the Obama Administration’s psychotropic medication use and childhood trauma initiatives.

Dr. Raghavan earned his PhD in Health Services from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MD in Psychiatry from Kasturba Medical College at Manipal University, and his MBBS from Stanley Medical College at Tamil Nadu Medical University.

|  Publications

Cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer versus expert consultation training models for implementing interpersonal psychotherapy in college mental health settings: evidence from a national cluster randomized trial
Raghavan, R., Fitzsimmons-Craft, E. E., Welch, R. R., Jo, B., Proctor, E. K., Wilson, G. T., Agras, W. S. & Wilfley, D. E., Dec 2024, In : Implementation Science. 19, 1, 55.

Policy dissemination and implementation research
Purtle, J., Crable, E. L., Cruden, G., Lee, M., Lengnick-Hall, R., Silver, D. & Raghavan, R., Mar 21 2024, Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: Translating Science to Practice. Oxford University Press, p. 511-533 23 p.

The role of economic evaluation in dissemination and implementation research
Dopp, A. R., Walker, S. & Raghavan, R., Mar 21 2024, Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: Translating Science to Practice. Oxford University Press, p. 232-250 19 p.

IN THE LITERATURE: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE Why Patient-Centered Built Environment Standards Matter More Than Numbers of Beds in Inpatient Psychiatry
Shields, M. C., Kantawala, Z. & Raghavan, R., Mar 1 2024, In : AMA journal of ethics. 26, 3, p. 237-247 11 p.

Revisiting the policy ecology framework for implementation of evidence-based practices in mental health settings
Wortham, W. K., Rodwin, A. H., Purtle, J., Munson, M. R. & Raghavan, R., Dec 2023, In : Implementation Science. 18, 1, 58.

|  Courses

PhD: Grant Writing II

PhD: Statistical Methods II: Generalized Linear Models

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