Faculty

Diana Silver

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Diana Silver

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Diana Silver has been working in the field of public health for two decades.  Currently, Dr. Silver''s research explores the variation in state and local public policies that affect public health, and the impact of differences in access to publicly funded services such as clinics, pre-school, after-school, parks and playgrounds shapes outcomes. 

Before joining the faculty at Steinhardt, Dr Silver was a research scientist at NYU's Wagner School, and served as the project director for the national evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative, a ten year project to improve the health and safety of youth in America's distressed cities. Dr. Silver's work has been publiished in a variety of journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, the American Journal of Health Promotion, Youth and Society, Public Administration Review and Policy Studies Journal. 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 through community based organizations.


Degrees Held

  • PhD NYU 2007
    Public Administration
  • MPH Hunter College, CUNY 1986
  • BA Bates College 1982
    History

Awards

  • 2007 : Public Affairs Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Conference and Study Center, Bellagio Italy

Courses

  • PUHE-GE 2410 - Community Based Health Interventions
  • PUHE-GE 2361 - Research Methods
  • PUHE-GE 0070 - Health and Society

Selected Publications

  • Diana Silver, Tod Mijanovich, Jenny Uyei, Farzana Kapadia, Beth C. Weitzman.(2011) "Lifting Boats Not Closing Gaps:Child Health Outcomes in Distressed Cities 1992-2002" American Journal of Public Health. 101(2): 2788-284 (view)
  • Diana Silver, Beth C Weitzman, Tod Mijanovich, Martha S Holleman. How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge the Assumptions of Neighborhood Interventions. American Journal of Health Promotion. (in press).
  • Diana Silver "Author Talk with Paul Farmer" Just Books August 2010 (link)
  • Beth C. Weitzman, Tod Mijanovich, Diana Silver, Charles Brecher. (2009). Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention: Using an Integrated Design to Evaluate a Comprehensive Community Initiative. American Journal of Evaluation.
  • Charles Brecher, Caitlyn Brazill, Beth C. Weitzman, Diana Silver (2010). Understanding the Political Context of New Policy Issues: the Use of the Advocacy Coalition Model in the Case of Expanded After-School Programs. Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory. 2:235-255.
  • Diana Silver, Beth C. Weitzman (2009). "The Pros and Cons of Comprehensive Community Initiatives at the City Level: The Case of the Urban Health Initiative". The Foundation Review 1(1):85-95.
  • Beth C. Weitzman, Diana Silver, Tod Mijanovich and Caitlyn Brazill (2008). "If you build it, will they come? Estimating Unmet Demand for After-School Programs in America's Distressed Cities" Youth and Society 40: 3-34.
  • Beth C. Weitzman, Diana Silver and Caitlyn Brazill (2006). "Efforts to Improve Public Policy and Programs through Improved Data Practices: Experiences in Fifteen Distressed American Cities" Public Administration Review 66 (3):386-399.
  • Charles Brecher, Diana Silver, Cynthia Searcy and Beth C. Weitzman (2004): " Following the Money: Using Expenditure Analysis as an Evaluation Tool" American Journal of Evaluation 26(2):150-166.
  • Beth C. Weitzman, Diana Silver, and Keri-Nicole Dillman (2002). "Integrating a Comparison Group Design into a Theory of Change Evaluation: The Case of the Urban Health Initiative" American Journal of Evaluation 23:371-385.
  • Diana Silver, Beth Weitzman and Charles Brecher (2002). "Setting an Agenda for Local Action: The Limits of Expert Opinion and Community Voice" Policy Studies Journal 30(3):362-379.
  • Nicholas Freudenberg, Diana Silver, Jennifer Carmona, Daniel Kass, Brick Lancaster and Marjorie Speers (2000). "Health Promotion in the City: A Structured Review of the Literature on Interventions to Prevent Heart Diseases, Substance Abuse, Violence and HIV infection in US metropolitan areas, 1980 - 1995. Journal of Urban Health.
  • Clara Haignere, Nicholas Freudenberg, Diana Silver, Halina Maslinka (1997), "One method for assessing HIV/AIDS peer-education programs. Journal of Adolescent Health."Journal of Adolescent Health.21(2):76-79.
  • Nicholas Freudenberg, Jackie Lee and Diana Silver (1989). "How Black and Latino Community Organizations Respond to the AIDS Epidemic: A Case Study of One New York City Neighborhood." AIDS Education and Prevention.