Dr. Raghavan’s research focuses on mental health services and policies for vulnerable children, especially those in the child welfare system. He has studied the effects of Medicaid and Medicaid managed care on mental health service use, the longitudinal stability of health insurance coverage, and access to mental health care consistent with national standards among children in the child welfare system. His current work focuses on the economics of implementation of evidence-based mental health interventions, and on the costs of child maltreatment.
Dr. Raghavan is a faculty associate at the Brown School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research, and the Washington University Center for Applied Statistics. Dr. Raghavan’s work has received financial support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administration for Children and Families, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the State of Missouri.
At the Brown School, he teaches courses on mental health policy and advanced statistics in the Masters program.
Dr. Raghavan is a psychiatrist and health services researcher by training. Prior to joining the School, he was policy director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. His previous appointment was as a Public Health Fellow at the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion.