Manasi Kumar

Manasi Kumar, PhD

Member of the Faculty, Department of Population Health

Keywords
psychological treatments, global burden of mental and substance use disorders, population health, practice informed evidence, routine outcomes monitoring in public mental health, commercial, digital, environmental and social determinants of mental health, infectious diseases, behavioral health
Summary

I am a Professor at the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity and the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.  I am a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in interpersonal psychotherapy, psychodynamic and trauma informed treatment approaches.I have extensive mental health policy and research experience in public mental health systems and translating research into policy and practice with a focus on development of public health surveillance and routine outcomes monitoring systems. My research focuses on designing and implementing public mental health interventions addressing leading causing of mental, neurological and substance use disorders amongst highly marginalized and disadvantaged populations  and provide policy informed evidence to reduce mental health treatment gap. Advancement of multilevel strategies to address socioeconomic disparities is at the center of my research efforts. I have lived and worked in many diverse cultural contexts of India, the United Kingdom, and Kenya, that have informed my professional and personal
development.  I have published widely on social, environmental, economic, digital and commercial determinants of mental health with a focus on perinatal and adolescent populations. For the last 10 years, I have focused on the interface of mental health within infectious diseases management and the role of behavioral health in disease control. I am also extensively deploying mental and behavioral health strategies to address environmental degradation, pollution and climate change.

Phone

703-473-5262

Academic office

NYU School of Medicine, 180 Madison Avenue

8th Floor

New York, NY 10016

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PhD from University College London

University College London, Department of Psychology

Mostert, Cyprian M; Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu; Kumar, Manasi; Khan, Murad; Ali, Shehzad; Muchungi, Kendi; Chemutai, Gloria; Smith, Cynthia; Trepel, Dominic; Eyre, Harris; Atwoli, Lukoye; Merali, Zul

Alzheimer's & dementia. 2025 Feb; 21(2):e70006

Kumar, Manasi; Mootz, Jennifer; Weissman, Myrna

JAMA psychiatry. 2025 Jan 01; 82(1):6-8

Schlatter, Lea; Kumar, Manasi; Kumar, Pushpam

Annals of global health. 2025 Mar; 91(1):19

Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu T; Maina, Rachel; Anazodo, Udunna C; Akinyemi, Rufus; Atwoli, Lukoye; Baker, Laura; Bassil, Darina; Blackmon, Karen; Bosire, Edna; Chemutai, Gloria; Crivelli, Lucia; Eze, Laz U; Ibanez, Agustin; Kafetsouli, Dimitra; Karikari, Thomas K; Khakali, Linda; Kumar, Manasi; Lengyel, Imre; de Jager Loots, Celeste A; Mangialasche, Francesca; Mbugua, Sylvia; Merali, Zul; Mielke, Michelle; Mostert, Cyprian; Muthoni, Eunice; Nesic-Taylor, Olivera; Ngugi, Anthony; Nguku, Samuel; Ogunniyi, Adesola; Ogunyemi, Adedoyin; Okonkwo, Ozioma C; Okubadejo, Njideka; Perneczky, Robert; Peto, Tunde; Riang'a, Roselyter M; Saleh, Mansoor; Sayed, Shaheen; Shah, Jasmit; Shah, Sheena; Solomon, Alina; Thesen, Thomas; Trepel, Dominic; Ucheagwu, Valentine; Valcour, Victor; Waa, Sheila; Watermeyer, Tamlyn; Yokoyama, Jennifer; Zetterberg, Henrik; Kivipelto, Miia; ,

Alzheimer's & dementia. 2024 Dec; 20(12):8987-9003

Jakobsson, Cecilia; Sanghavi, Rhea; Nyamiobo, Joseph; Maloy, Caitlin; Mwanzu, Arnold; Venturo-Conerly, Katherine; Mostert, Cyprian; Peterson, Stefan; Kumar, Manasi

BMJ global health. 2024 Sep 05; 9(9):

Mostert, Cyprian M; Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan A; Kumar, Manasi; Aballa, Andrew; Njoroge, Willie; Bosire, Edna; Khakali, Linda; Thomi, John; Muthaura, Karambu; Atwoli, Lukoye; Merali, Zul

Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2024 Aug 01; 102(8):618-620

Kumar, Manasi; Huang, Keng Yen

JAMA network open. 2024 Aug 01; 7(8):e2429605

Njuguna, Irene N; King'e, Maureen; Moraa, Helen; Kumar, Manasi; Benki-Nugent, Sarah; Wagner, Anjuli Dawn; McGrath, Christine J; Dorsey, Shannon; Ndegwa, Serah; Onyango, Alvin; Wamalwa, Dalton; John-Stewart, Grace

BMJ open. 2024 Jun 06; 14(6):e081975