At Boston Medical Center (BMC), the region’s largest safety-net hospital, when patients are diagnosed with COVID-19 and sent home to quarantine, they often have concerns that reach far beyond their symptoms. How will they get food and medicine if they can’t leave the house? What if they fall behind on their rent and utilities? These […]
Learn the ins-and-outs of community advisory boards with BU School of Social Work assistant professor Astraea Augsberger and Kimberly Nelson, assistant professor at BU School of Public Health. Their one-hour session, “Creating and Nurturing Community Advisory Boards,” is part of the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s 3rd Thursday Community Engagement Education Series, an initiative […]
Student joins forces with community advocates to promote language justice and equity for culturally diverse families BUSSW doctoral candidate Catalina Tang Yan has received the Association for Community Organization and Social Action’s (ACOSA) 2020 Doctoral Student Award. This award honors PhD students who demonstrate outstanding scholarly potential in community and/or organizational practice through their dissertation, […]
Emily Riemer from WCVB Channel 5 interviews BUSSW associate professor Linda Sprague Martinez and a young participant about their research empowering Boston-area adolescents to investigate health and well-being in their own communities. Excerpted from “Youth researchers focus on public health in Boston neighborhoods”: “Young people are very well aware of social factors that influence their […]