Manasi Kumar

Manasi Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Kumar is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in interpersonal psychotherapy, psychodynamic, and trauma informed treatment approaches. She has 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.

Kumar has 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, she has focused on the interface of mental health within infectious diseases management and the role of behavioral health in disease control. She is also extensively deploying mental and behavioral health strategies to address environmental degradation, pollution, and climate change.