After spending decades as a “food desert” with little-to-no access to healthy grocery shopping options, Dorchester, Mass. is slated to open a food co-op staffed by local residents. Prof. Dan Miller from BU School of Social Work recently talked to The Boston Globe about the impact the new business will have on the community, and […]
The BU Global Development Policy Center (GDP) has awarded a Summer in the Field Fellowship to doctoral student Emily Lamunu of BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) to work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) in Uganda. Her role will focus on supporting knowledge management and documentation related to the closure of the […]
Three MSW students from Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) got an inside look at cutting-edge harm reduction facilities on a recent visit to OnPoint NYC, the operator of the nation’s first and only sanctioned supervised consumption centers. The students – Kate Crotty, Renee Mackintosh and Jaime McCaughey – were interns at Boston Medical Center’s […]
In a recent podcast, Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez from BU School of Social Work discussed the Liberation Health Model she co-created to better address patients’ mental health. In addition to explaining the Brazilian, Black feminism, and Marxist inspirations for the approach, she discusses the transformative effect it has had on patients, their families, and activism […]