Moiyattu Banya, MSW

Moiyattu Banya is a second year PhD student at the New York University (NYU) Silver School of Social Work. Moiyattu’s interests are in global mental health, community-based participatory research and mixed methods. Moiyattu focuses on adolescent and young adult mental health services and interventions research. In particular, her interests center on supporting communities that have a history of trauma and gender-based violence in Africa. Moiyattu is focused on the implementation of culturally relevant multilevel interventions that foster and nurture mental health and wellbeing among girls and young women on the continent. Her secondary research interests include improving mental health outcomes of refugee and first-generation immigrant African youth in the United States. Moiyattu’s interdisciplinary training in social work and public health shape her interdisciplinary research agenda. She holds an MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work. She completed her undergraduate degree in Public Health at Rutgers University. Moiyattu currently conducts research as part of the Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group at the NYU Silver School of Social Work.