2026 Presenters
Keynote Speakers
Ramesh Raghavan, MBBS, MD, PhD, Professor, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Title of Talk
Capacities and Contexts: Approaches to Enhancing Child Well-Being
Biography
Ramesh Raghavan is a Professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University in New York, NY.
Much of Dr. Raghavan’s current work is focused on child well-being. He leads the Group for Research on Well-Being (GROW), an inter-university research consortium. Faculty and student scholars associated with GROW conduct research on theory, measurement, and intervention development related to child and family flourishing in local and international contexts. Dr Raghavan’s work has been funded by national and international funding agencies. He is the co-editor of Implementing Public Health Interventions in Developing Countries (IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health, 2012), and co-author of Investing in Children’s Mental Health (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is currently at work on a book titled Understanding Child Well-Being, which is under contract to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Dr Raghavan is the former chair of NIMH’s Mental Health Services Research review committee and serves on the editorial board of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. In early 2015, he served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr Raghavan completed medical school at Stanley Medical College, Madras, India, and a psychiatric residency at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. He completed a fellowship in pediatric pain management in the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also earned a PhD in health services.