Young people’s assessments of well-being in their own communities can be instrumental in shaping efforts to improve health conditions, according to new research led by the Boston University School of Social Work, Boston Medical Center and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc., funded by the Institute for Health System Innovation & […]
Join BUSSW professor Dr. Phillipe Copeland on October 14th for a virtual presentation titled, “The Nation is Sick: Abolition and Health Justice.” Copeland’s lecture is the second in a three-part series on race and racism organized by the Public Health and Community Medicine Department’s Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (DEAR) Council at Tufts University School of […]
In a new episode of the mental health podcast “It’s Not Just in Your Head,” BUSSW faculty member Dawn Belkin Martinez breaks down the Liberation Health Model – a holistic approach to mental health that contextualizes individuals’ experiences within a cultural, political and historical framework. Dawn Belkin Martinez, co-founder of the Liberation Health Model, is […]
Boston University is hosting a free webinar for BU alumni, students, faculty and staff titled “Social Cultural Impact of COVID-19 on the Latinx Community.” Luz López, BUSSW clinical professor and director of the Global Health Core at the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, will co-lead the webinar with alumnus Wilfred W. Labiosa, PhD (CAS’93), co-founder and […]