{"id":21004,"date":"2020-08-10T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=21004"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:12:05","slug":"thomas-byrne","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/thomas-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/thomas-byrne\/\">Thomas Byrne<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare Policy in the School of Social Work and the <span>Charles River Campus Advisor <\/span>at Boston University. He believes that everyone should have a safe, stable and decent place to live\u2014and in fact, that it is a fundamental prerequisite for a fulfilling and dignified life. This conviction motivates both his scholarship and professional service. His research focuses on homelessness, housing and veterans and has been published in journals including <em>Health Affairs<\/em>,\u00a0<em>American Journal of Public Health<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Housing Policy Debate<\/em>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Outside of BU, Byrne serves as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Healthcare Outcomes &amp; Implementation Research (CHOIR) in Bedford, Mass., and at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans. He is also active in a number of initiatives to prevent and end homelessness in Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors at Hearth, Inc., a Boston-based organization dedicated to eliminating homelessness among the elderly through prevention, placement and housing programs, and on the City of Boston\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Advisory Committee to End Homelessness.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=QmxzIi0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29146,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21004\/revisions\/29146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}