Dr. Paul Archibald is Associate Professor, MSW Program Director, and Chair of the Department of Social Work in the School of Education and Social Work at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He previously served at Morgan State University School of Social Work, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baltimore, where, as an early career researcher, he contributed to the development of the stress singularity paradigm and the emerging discipline of epidemiological criminology. His professional goal is to expand the number of underrepresented minority social workers trained in the public health social work framework, a prevention- and health-promotion-oriented practice that integrates epidemiology to advance health, social justice, and community well-being. He emphasizes approaches that are data-driven but people-focused. Dr. Archibald is a public health social worker with more than 20 years of clinical and macro-level experience, with expertise in the prevention and treatment of behavioral health outcomes among individuals exposed to chronic stress and trauma. His current research uses an intersectional approach to explore how stress and trauma contribute to health disparities related to trauma- and stressor-related conditions. At the heart of his work, Dr. Archibald embraces his role as a “holistic health promoter”, guided by the belief that “it takes a whole community to make a community whole.
Degrees
DrPH, Morgan State University, School of Community Health and Policy
MSW, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work
MA, Sociology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
MS, Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Pharnacy
BA, Sociology, Morgan State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
* = PhD Student ^ = MSW student ° = Community Partner/Community Practitioner
Nolan, J.J., Pratt-Harris, N.C., Daniels, K., Archibald, P., Henry H. Brownstein, H.H., Glanville, K. & Davis, R. (2025). Reimagining American policing: Making communities safer and stronger. Translational Criminology, 2-5. https://cebcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/TC26-Fall25.pdf
Archibald, P., Rhodes, D., & Thorpe, R. (2025). Social determinants of substance use in black adults with criminal justice contact: Do sex, stressors, and sleep matter? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(8), 1176. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22081176
Thorpe, R. Gutierrez, A. Archibald, P., Thierry, A., Bruce, M., Mills, C., Norris, K., Tobin, C.T. (2025). Race, age, and allostatic load among men in the Nashville Stress and Health Study. American Journal of Men’s Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883251317095
*Rawcliffe, R. M., Araujo Dawson, B., Archibald, P. C., & Lopez-Humphreys, M. (2025). Investigating the relationship between disaster preparedness knowledge, disaster related stress, and post-disaster depression among students and faculty in higher education. Social Work in Public Health, 40(1), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2024.2428394
Archibald, P., Daniels, K., ^Massenberg, R., & °Simms, E. (2024). Pilot study examining stress and obesity among employees at a Historically Black College and University. Ethnicity and Disease, 34(4), 192-198. https://doi.org/10.18865/EthnDis-2023-88
Delgado, P., Kermah, D., Archibald, P., Adewumi, M. T., Bell, C. N., & Thorpe, R. J., Jr (2023). Difference in All-Cause Mortality between Unemployed and Employed Black Men: Analysis Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(2), 1594. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021594
Archibald, P. Lopez-Humphreys, M., & *Rosenthal, K. (2023). COVID-19 stressors and effects related to depression with American university students. Social Work in Mental Health, 21(4), 437-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2022.2162835
Smith, G. S., Archibald, P., & Thorpe, R. J., Jr (2022). Race and obesity disparities among adults living in gentrifying neighborhoods. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10(1), 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01199-x
Estreet, A. T., Archibald, P., & Price, L., Jr (2022). COVID-19 broken access: implications for individuals with substance use disorders. Social Work in Public Health, 37(8), 763–774. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2022.2087820
Archibald, P. (2021). Factors influencing the relationship between work-related stress and posttraumatic stress disorder among working Black adults in the United States. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 94(3): 383–394
Archibald, P., Subramoney, K., Beydoun, H., & Harris, C.M. (2021). The impact of obesity on outcomes of patients hospitalized with opioid/opiate overdose. Substance Abuse, 43(1) 253-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2021.1941505
Johnson, Nia, Archibald, P., Estreet, A., & Morgan-Henry, A, (2021). Cost of being black in social work education. Advances in Social Work, 21(2-3), https://doi.org/10.18060/24115
*George-Moses, C., Archibald, P., Rogers, S., & Humphreys, M. (2021). A call for person-centered and city centered student during COVID-19 pandemic. Urban Social Work, 5(2), 108- 125.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Archibald, P. Daniels, K., & Jennings, G. (In Press). U-PREPARE for conflict in an urban environment: A model for advocacy and social change. In H. McLaughlin & B. Teater (Eds.), Research handbook on social work and societies. Edward Elgar.
Archibald, P. & Archibald, L. (2024). Racialized stress and trauma in Black communities: Lessons for speech and language professionals. In Y.D. Hyter (Ed.), Language research in post-traumatic stress (pp. 11-36). Routledge.
Archibald, P., Bruce, M. Norris, K.J., & Thorpe, Jr., R. (2023). Racialized healthcare inequities as determinant of COVID-19 disaster risks and outcomes: Moving towards COVID-19 disaster recovery. recovery. In R. Thorpe, Jr. & D. Miller (Eds.), Health disparities, disasters & crises: Approaches for a culture of preparedness (pp. 12-29). Routledge.
Archibald, P., Bruce, M. Norris, K.J., & Thorpe, Jr., R. (2023). Convergence of COVID-19 pandemic disaster, mental health, and substance use disorder. In R. Thorpe, Jr. & D. Miller (Eds.), Health disparities, disasters & crises: Approaches for a culture of preparedness (pp. 156-168). Routledge.
Daniels, K., Archibald, P. & Darrell, L. (2022). Cultural awareness training for police officers: The intergenerational Ma’at way (I-Ma-At-Way). In N. C. Pratt-Harris, (Ed.), Why the police should be trained by Black people (pp. 96-106). Routledge.
Archibald, P. & Johnson, N. (2021). Culturally relevant, trauma-responsive, and healing-centered social work supervision. In Trauma and mental health social work with urban populations: African- centered clinical interventions, Wells-Wilbon, R. & Estreet, A. (Eds.), pp. 52-66. Routledge.
Estreet, A. & Archibald, P. (2021). Addressing substance use through African-centered practice approaches. In Trauma and mental health social work with urban populations: African-centered clinical interventions, Wells-Wilbon, R. & Estreet, A. (Eds.), pp.178-190. Routledge.
