Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D.

Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., is the Vice Provost of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Medicine, and Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Northwestern University. She serves as an elected council member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Psychology and previously served as the president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. 

Dr. Silver has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and multiple foundations. Her research has primarily focused on the acute and long-term reactions to personal and community traumas including mass violence events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Boston Marathon bombings, and the Pulse Nightclub shooting, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and wildfires. She has published extensively on individual and community resilience, cumulative effects of collective traumas, and the role of the media in transmitting the stress of community disasters.