Judith Gonyea, professor and associate dean of faculty affairs at BUSSW, is one of five BU faculty to receive funding from BU’s Initiative on Cities (IOC) call for COVID-19 Urban Research-to-Action proposals. Working with Co-PI PhD student Arden O’Donnell, in collaboration with the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission, Gonyea and the team will examine the […]
Paramedics are frontline healthcare providers, responding to everyday emergencies from heart attacks and strokes, to public health crises like COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic. While these workers are skilled in life-saving resuscitation and stabilization, a study by BUSSW researchers finds that they are far less prepared in their training to deal with behavioral health issues. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded grant funding to BUSSW associate professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm and co-principal investigator Cindy Liu for CARES, their developing study on the short and long-term effects of COVID-19 on young adults. CARES (the COVID-19 Adult Resilience Experiences Study) will recruit 2,000 young adults, ages 18 to 30, currently residing […]