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 […]
BUSSW social welfare policy professor Mary Collins makes the case for ‘virtue ethics’ in The Conversation. Excerpted from “3 moral virtues necessary for an ethical pandemic response and reopening” by Mary E. Collins and Sarah B. Garlington: The health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are not equally felt. From the United States to Brazil and the United Kingdom, low-wage workers […]
In an op-ed for Minneapolis Post, BUSSW alum Saida M. Abdi, PhD (SSW’19) and her sister, Cawo M. Abdi, both professors at the University of Minnesota, explore their communities’ experiences following the murder of George Floyd. By Saida Abdi and Cawo Abdi | June 4, 2020Originally published by MinnPost Minneapolis-St. Paul is burning with rage while demonstrations continue around […]