Social Work and Health Equity Speaker Series

The Social Work And Health Equity Speaker Series highlights innovative public health social work practice and leadership in various sectors. The series encourages interaction between current social work students and alumni working in areas that impact health; discussions center on the role of social work practice in improving public health and addressing issues of health equity. Events featured to date have included the following:

• April 2018
  Intersectionality and Health Conference: Breaking Down Barriers to Quality Care
  Multiple speakers participated in this student-led day-long conference focused on the challenges people with multiple marginalized, intersecting identities face at the individual and systems level when accessing medical, mental health, and social services.
  Intersectionality event description
• April 2018
  Panel: Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
  A panel of speakers from Dimock Community Service Agency at Justice Resource Institute and Massachusetts Advocates for Children, with moderation by Astraea Augsberger, BUSSW
  Pipeline event description and recording
• October 2017
  Visiting: Public Health Social Work on Rosebud Sioux Tribe Reservation
  Madeline Ray (’18)
• March 2017
  Integrating Social Justice into Practice: A Liberation Health Framework
  Serena Smith Patten (’14, SPH ‘15), Early Intervention Public Health Social Worker
  Dawn Belkin Martinez, BUSSW
  Chloe Frankel, Boston Liberation Health
• February 2017
  Racial Justice, Health Equity, and the Role of Government: Lessons from the City of Boston
  Janine Anzalota (’04, SPH ‘06), Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Housing & Equity
  Ilyitch Nahiely Tábora, Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office of Health & Human Services
  Rita Nieves, Deputy Director. Boston Public Health Commission
  Panelists discuss racial health inequities in Boston on Daily Free Press website
• February 2017
  Changing What Counts as Health Care: Social Work’s Role
  Jennifer Valenzuela (’00, SPH’01), Principal of Program, Health Leads
  School of Social Work addresses health needs outside of medical care on Daily Free Press website
• December 2016
  Intersection of race, sexual and gender identity and its impact on health in the LGBTQ community
  Tfawa Haynes, Psychotherapist, Fenway Health