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Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR)
Achievements PREPARE – Partners In Pediatric Readiness, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Education Toolkit and Training This virtual training brings together families and pediatric emergency care coordinators to learn from each other, build trust, and practice real-life skills during an emergency. The PREPaRE Training and Companion Toolkit were co-developed with cross-sector…
Boston University Advancing Leadership in Public Health Social Work
BU-ALPS is one-year HRSA-funded project dedicated to strengthening public health social work education at Boston University and nationally. Public health social work is a sub-discipline within social work that draws on both social work and public health theories, frameworks, research and practice to promote health equity and mitigate human health…
Black Women First Initiative
We foster Benefits Demonstration Sites The initiative provided funding to the following 12 demonstration sites across the country: Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center The Evaluation and Technical Assistance Provider, The University of Massachusetts—Lowell (PI: Dr. Serena Rajabiun) in partnership with AIDS United, Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Work &…
The Economic Value of Social Work in Health Equity
The U.S. healthcare system faces a critical challenge: how to improve outcomes, contain costs, and address long-standing inequities. Social workers are uniquely positioned to meet this moment. Trained to integrate the social, psychological, and structural dimensions of care, they are often embedded across healthcare settings—providing essential services to individuals navigating…
SURE Housing Initiative
SURE Housing initiative is implementing and evaluating housing-related interventions for HIV positive people, including youth and young adults (aged 18-24), people involved in the legal system, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. The four-year project, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau, funds 10 Ryan White HIV/AIDS…
Support for Activity-Based Costing
Our team led the first comprehensive analysis of activity-based costing and management (ABC/M) data from Uganda and Tanzania, providing critical insights into how HIV services are delivered and resourced. We analyzed five key HIV services—antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV testing and counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), voluntary medical male circumcision…
Dr. Margaret Lombe Joins BUSSW as Associate Professor of Social Work & Global Health Equity
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) has appointed Dr. Margaret Lombe to its faculty as associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Dr. Lombe will be the school’s first professor of social work and global health equity, a newly created position within the macro practice department. “I am…
CISWH Promotes Civic Health with Vot-ER
As Civic Health Month in August wraps up, the Center for Innovation for Social Work and Health (CISWH) at BUSSW continues to collaborate with Vot-ER, a national nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, to address social work leadership in healthcare and promote civic health engagement. The partnership is…
CISWH Board Member Explains How Pandemics Threaten U.S. Lives, Health Systems, & Economic Stability
CISWH Board member A.K. Nandakumar, professor of the Practice, director of the MS Program in Global Health Policy and Management, and the Institute for Global Health and Development recently conducted a Q&A with The Heller School for Social Policy and Management on “COVID Relief Programs Have…
CISWH Director Tami Gouveia Shares How the Beyond 2025 Action Hub Helps Social Workers Track Shifting Policies
Since the 2025 presidential inauguration, President Trump has signed an overwhelming number of executive orders, many of which follow proposals in Project 2025 and the America First Agenda. Prof. Tami Gouveia, director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work in Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW),…