The September 4 issue of Nature, the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal, features the work of associate professor Desmond U. Patton and his SAFElab team, who are analyzing social media messages related to youth violence. Dr. Patton, a social worker

The School of Social Work's Center for Complicated Grief (CCG), under the direction of M. Katherine Shear, MD, is collaborating with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) on Stepping Forward in Grief, a study of two innovative digital

With the start of the fall semester, the Columbia School of Social Work welcomed a new class of 447 Master of Social Work students. The students, most of whom will graduate in 2020, come from different walks of life and

Two new tenure-track faculty members have joined the Columbia School of Social Work at the start of the 2018–2019 academic year. Epidemiologist Alissa Davis (left in above photo) and medical sociologist Brooke West have joined the full-time faculty of the

By Nabila El-Bassel For the past several years, Central Asia and Eastern Europe have been the only areas of the world where the number of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are on the rise, due largely to injection drug

Every academic year at the Columbia School of Social Work has memorable moments. Watch the slideshow below for a few moments 2017–18 that were visually memorable. NOTE: Click on the photo itself for a link to more information. [slideshow_deploy id='50794']