News: Research
Joining Forces to Address the Opioid Crisis
Last March, Professor Nabila El-Bassel received a phone call from Redonna Chandler, director of the HEALing Communities Study at the…
Columbia’s HEALing Communities Study Holds First Community Advisory Board Meeting
Led by University Professor Nabila El-Bassel, the meeting marked an important first step in Columbia’s major study initiative to tackle…
Eradicating Racial Disparities in Public Health
In a new article, Professor Courtney Cogburn argues that public health policy making should take the health impacts of cultural…
My Year of Discovery at Columbia’s China Center for Social Policy
Xuan Huo (left) with Professor Qin Gao (right) in the Columbia School of Social Work’s lobby I first met Qin…
Social Impact LIVE: Sophia Leveque on #DisruptWikipedia & Social Justice
Wikipedia is now the most-used reference website in the world. But is it a space of exclusion and privilege? What…
A Trip to Social Work’s Past, Guided by School Librarian Sophie Leveque
Communications writer Joshua Cole shares his time-travel adventure of last month, which took him to the sub-basement home of the…
2018–2019 Faculty Publications
During the 2018–2019 academic year, the Columbia School of Social Work’s tenured and tenure-track faculty published more than 150 articles…
2018–2019 Faculty Milestones & In the News
In addition to raising grants and producing publications, members of our faculty also marked important milestones, and made frequent media…
Study Showing Medicaid’s Anti-Poverty Effect Cited in “Forbes”
Research scientists Naomi Zewde and Christopher Wimer found that Medicaid expansions under Obamacare lifted nearly 700,000 out of poverty. Medicaid…
Welfare Participation and Youth Depression: Correlation or Causation?
Professor Qin Gao has contributed to a paper showing that, while some studies are linking welfare participation and levels of…
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This Special Report highlights responses by social work researchers to a tumultuous year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and protests against racial injustice.
This Special Report highlights work undertaken by our faculty, students, and staff in the area of racial justice.
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