{"id":53720,"date":"2021-07-01T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&p=53720"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:00:22","slug":"daniel-jacobson-lopez","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/daniel-jacobson-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jacobson L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Jacobson L\u00f3pez, an expert in trauma, joined BU School of Social Work as an assistant professor in 2021. He is also visiting faculty at Yale University\u2019s School of Public Health and a BU Diversity & Inclusion STAR scholar. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania in 2024. He currently serves as Deputy Title IX Coordinator. His research examines the experiences of gay Latino and Black sexual assault survivors and services provided to them; violence against gay Black and Latino men, and LGBTQ individuals; and COVID-19\u2019s effects on people living with HIV\/AIDS. Most recently, he traveled to Ghana with the Yale School of Nursing to reduce stigma and increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to joining BUSSW, Jacobson L\u00f3pez was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, where he was a CEED diversity scholar. He was the first ever Latinx PhD graduate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and is the founder of the University\u2019s first Latinx graduate student group. In 2020, he became the inaugural chair of diversity and inclusion for the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobson L\u00f3pez has a doctoral certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a certification in business from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business<\/span>. He has received awards from Black Men at Penn and the Center for Hispanic Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his scholarship and research, Jacobson L\u00f3pez is a certified sexual assault counselor, certified ART therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and anti-bias facilitator with the Anti-Defamation League. In 2023, he became a member of the national Blue Ribbon Gender Based Task Force at San Diego State University, where he makes recommendations for combating gender based violence at university and college campuses. He was selected to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania in 2024.<\/span>
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