Join BU School of Social Work associate professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm for the virtual panel discussion “Talking to Teens about Anti-Asian Discrimination in the Era of COVID-19: Guidance from Research and Practice.” Professor Hahm is a researcher dedicated to reducing health disparities among Asian American populations with a particular emphasis on building empirical evidence of health […]
Join BUSSW’s Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) for COVID-19, Black Communities, and Health Justice, a virtual panel event exploring the role that social work, health care, public health, community organizations, and policy can play in advancing health equity. PANELISTS: Linda Sprague Martinez, Ph.D, Chair of Macro Practice and Associate Professor, Boston […]
In ProPublica, Prof. Linda Sprague Martinez explains the devastating toll race disparities take on the health of Black Americans. Excerpted from “How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men” by Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin. Everyone thinks about racism as something that is personally mediated, like someone insulting me,” said Linda Sprague Martinez, a professor at Boston […]
The new Boston University Center for Antiracist Research has named BUSSW faculty member Phillipe Copeland to its inaugural leadership team as the assistant director of narrative. The Center for Antiracist Research, launched in June 2020, was founded by race scholar Ibram X. Kendi to address pervasive problems of racial injustice guided by a world-class, multi-disciplinary […]