5/2: CISWH Presents 2023 Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health
Join the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) and featured speaker Dr. Joseph Betancourt of the Commonwealth Fund for the 2023 Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health. The annual event, which features national and international leaders working at the forefront of health and social justice, is held in honor of Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones, a pivotal leader for BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) and the social work profession. Betancourt will be joined by BUSSW Dean Jorge Delva and CISWH Executive Director Eleanor Zambrano.
Date & Time:
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
5:30 – 7:00 PM (ET)
Location:
Hybrid (BU George Sherman Union Auditorium & Online)
Details & Registration:
This event is open to the public. Get details and register here.
1.5 free CEs are offered for social workers licensed in the United States.
Featured speaker Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, is president of the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working towards a more equitable and effective health care system. One of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care, equity, quality, and community health, Betancourt formerly served in equity and inclusion senior leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital and founded its Disparities Solutions Center and Disparities Leadership Program where he worked with more than 350 health care operating systems across the country. He is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist, focusing on Spanish-speaking and minority populations.
Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones (SSW’57), the School of Social Work dean from 1977 to 1993, helped shape Boston’s civic landscape for over forty-five years and has been integral in numerous community organizations within Boston’s African American population and throughout all Boston neighborhoods. As associate and executive director at Roxbury Multi-Service Center in 1967, his Task Force on Children Out of School published the report “The Way We Go to School: The Exclusion of Children in Boston,” which led to the first-in-the-nation enactment of two landmark laws that focused on special education and bi-lingual education.
Established by an anonymous donor, the Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health fund is partially endowed at $50,000. To make a donation in support of the fund, visit bu.edu/HubieJonesFund.