Associate Professor Heidi L. Allen has been appointed to serve on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities and…
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Congratulations to Dr. Louisa Gilbert on Being Granted Tenure at Columbia University
The Columbia School of Social Work would like to congratulate Associate Professor Louisa Gilbert on being granted tenure at Columbia…
#IWD2018: Honoring the Marginalized Women in Five SIG Studies Who Have Pressed for Progress on Female-Specific Health and Social Problems
This year, 110 years after its founding, International Women’s Day announced the theme of Press for Progress, with the goal…
Historical Q&A: Irv Garfinkel on the Guaranteed Income
By Chris Hughes The current debate about how a guaranteed income might work in the United States is just the…
Desmond Patton Receives Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research
For his groundbreaking research on social media and youth violence prevention, Assistant Professor Desmond U. Patton has received the 2018…
The HIV/AIDS Crisis Will Not End Unless We Take These Five Steps by 2030
By Nabila El-Bassel The advent of World AIDS Day on December 1st provides a chance to reflect on how far…
Is Social Media Surveillance the Virtual Stop-and-Frisk? New Study by Desmond Patton
As the inescapability of social media erodes the boundary between public and private spheres, law enforcement faces new questions about…
Can an Online Intervention Prevent Drug Use Among Teen Girls? New Study Says Yes
Adolescent drug use may be a universal problem, but its gendered aspects have been chronically under-explored. For more than a…
Assistant Professor Desmond Patton Receives Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center Fellowship
Columbia School of Social Work Assistant Professor Desmond U. Patton has been named as a 2017–18 fellow at the Berkman…
A Mutual Exchange: Chinese and U.S. Social Workers Collaborate to Serve Those in Need
China has had significant economic growth and poverty reduction in the past four decades. The other side of this story,…