Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH
Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH
Executive Director
Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine
Madhuri Jha, MPH, LCSW (she/hers) is a clinical social work and public health professional with experience providing leadership, training, consultation and direct clinical practice to programs focused on health equity, behavioral health systems strengthening, trauma and resiliency, mental health epidemiology and community capacity building. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity, an entity of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where her work focuses on leading national discourse, programming and research about embedding equity into policies and services that reach people living with behavioral health conditions. Ms. Jha is also a practicing psychotherapist in private practice with specific expertise in trauma and stressor-related disorders, psychosis, acute symptom management, cognitive behavioral therapy, and risk assessment and de-escalation. She joined Morehouse School of Medicine after over a decade of service in New York City and Washington, DC. Prior to her current role, she was the Director of a New York City mobile behavioral health unit, in addition to being a professor of mental health policy at New York University. She has worked locally, nationally and internationally as a manager to donor-funded health programs reaching vulnerable and high-risk communities. Her work history spans a diverse breadth of on the ground experience in inpatient, outpatient, school-based, community-based and mobile psychiatric treatment settings. Ms. Jha completed both a Master of Public Health (MPH) and a Master of Social Work (MSW) from New York University, and received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in International Affairs from George Washington University, where she was also a Division 1 NCAA athlete.