News: Health Disparities
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton Sociologist and Leading Thinker on Race and Technology, Will Be 2020 Graduation Speaker
The Columbia School of Social Work has announced that Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University…
Congratulations to Dr. Carmela Alcántara for Receiving Tenure at Columbia University
An exceptionally productive scholar, Alcántara has developed a research program that advances health equity on behalf of Latinx immigrants and…
Meet the School’s 2019–2020 CSWE Master’s Minority Fellows
Today’s social justice-oriented MSW students are tomorrow’s culturally competent social work professionals. And now six of ours are receiving additional…
Nine PhD Students Enter the Academic Job Market
Since its inception in 1950, the doctoral program at Columbia School of Social Work has produced many of the world’s…
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…
The Role of Sleep in Health Disparities
A good night’s sleep is a luxury for all of us, but according to Dr. Carmela Alcántara’s research, it is…
CSSW Welcomes Two New Full-Time Faculty Members
Two new tenure-track faculty members have joined the Columbia School of Social Work at the start of the 2018–2019 academic…
Heidi Allen Named to NIH Health Disparities Committee
Associate Professor Heidi L. Allen has been appointed to serve on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities and…
With New NIMH Grant, Cabassa and Stefančić Delve into Role of Peer Specialists in Delivering Health Interventions
Peer support among people with severe mental illness (SMI) is a practice with a longstanding tradition that is increasingly on…
Professors Alcántara and Cabassa Start RWJF-funded Project to Disaggregate Latino/a Health Data
According to the latest U.S. census, Latinos/as, also known as Hispanics, are the largest racial/ethnic group in the United States,…
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