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Jay Silverman is the Usdin Family Professor of Community Health at the Celia S. Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, where he serves as Director of the Tulane Center on Community-Engaged Research on Gender-Based Violence (CERGBV). He also leads the Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) team, a collaborative initiative between Tulane and the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining Tulane in July 2024, he was a Professor of Global Public Health and co-founder of the Center on Gender Equity and Health at UC San Diego.
Dr. Silverman's research focuses on understanding and preventing gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls through social epidemiologic studies, development of novel measures (e.g., reproductive coercion, gender-based household maltreatment), and rigorous evaluation of scalable interventions in community and health service settings. His work spans multiple global regions and is primarily funded by the NIH, CDC, and Gates Foundation. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is co-author of the award-winning guidebook The Batter as Parent.
The trends in his recent publications reflect a deep commitment to advancing measurement tools, evaluating interventions like ARCHES, Jenga Dada, and Close to Home, and exploring the intersections of GBV with reproductive health, climate change, and humanitarian crises. His research integrates public health, social science, and policy perspectives to promote gender equity and women’s reproductive agency.
Scientific Awards and Recognition:
- Co-author of the award-winning practitioner guidebook The Batter as Parent (Sage, 2002; 2009)
Dr. Silverman has secured major research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support large-scale, multi-site studies on GBV and reproductive health. His leadership in founding research centers and directing major initiatives indicates extensive experience in mentoring students and early-career researchers, though specific advisees are not listed. He is actively involved in shaping public health practice through community-engaged research and policy-relevant science.
He leads the Tulane Center on Community-Engaged Research on Gender-Based Violence and co-leads the ARCHES intervention team, both of which involve interdisciplinary teams of researchers, public health practitioners, and community stakeholders working to develop and scale evidence-based solutions to gender-based violence and reproductive coercion.
