Daniel Jacobson López

Daniel Jacobson López is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Boston University, School of Social Work. Dr. Lopez is also Visiting Faculty at Yale University, School of Public Health and REIDS fellow at CIRA at Yale. He is also a BU Diversity STARS Fellow. His research examines how socio-political systems engage with gay Latino and/or Black sexual assault survivors and the health services provided to them. He also researches the effects of COVID-19 on people living with HIV/AIDS and most recently, reducing stigma against Ghanaian MSM.

Dr. López was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Pitt Public Health, where he was selected as a CEED diversity scholar. He was the first ever Latinx PhD graduate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and is the founder of the University of Pittsburgh’s first Latinx graduate student group. In 2020, he was appointed as the inaugural chair of diversity and inclusion for the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association.

He has received awards from Black Men at Penn and the Center for Hispanic Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Master’s degree. Dr. Jacobson López has a doctoral certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and a certification from Katz Graduate School of Business at Pitt.  He is a former intern with the United Nations Development Programme, a Schweitzer Fellow Alumnus and a SAMSHA CSWE Doctoral Minority Fellow alumnus. In addition to his scholarship and research, Jacobson López is a certified sexual assault counselor, a licensed certified social worker, certified ART counselor, and an anti-bias facilitator with the Anti-Defamation League.