Jay Silverman, PhD

Dr. Silverman is the Usdin Family Professor of Community Health and Director of the Tulane Center for Community-Engaged Research on Gender-Based Violence (CERGBV) at the Celia S. Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He also leads the ARCHES (Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings) approach team based at University of California San Diego and Tulane. Prior to his appointment at Tulane in July 2024, Dr. Silverman was a Professor of Global Public Health and Co-founder of the Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH) at UC San Diego. For the past 25 years, Dr. Silverman has led numerous research programs (primary funders: NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation) on understanding and preventing gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls, including social epidemiologic studies, development and testing of new concepts and measures related to GBV and women’s reproductive agency (e.g., reproductive coercion, gender-based household maltreatment, reproductive violence) and rigorous evaluations of scalable community and health service-based interventions to reduce GBV and support women’s reproductive choices (e.g., ARCHES, Jenga Dada, Close to Home) across multiple global regions and populations. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts on these topics. Dr. Silverman is also co-author of the award-winning practitioner guidebook, The Batter as Parent (Sage, 2002; 2009).