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Dean Sarah Gehlert of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has been invited by the White House to join its new nonpartisan White House Health Equity Leaders Roundtable and has accepted the honor. The White House Office of Public Engagement established the group to provide key communication and expert perspective regarding health care access, one of this administration’s central issues.
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The concept of using AI for social good is a relatively new one.
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Social Worker Leads Transdisciplinary Study on Alzheimer’s and Sleep Quality Among African AmericansWith a body of work that brings rigorous, transdisciplinary research directly into the communities that need it most, Karen Lincoln, associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, contradicts the myth that social work is a discipline, not a science. Lincoln’s work proves it can be both.
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Eight professors of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work are recognized among the top 2% of scientists in the world for 2021 in a study by Elsevier and Stanford University. The ranking considers 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. Based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database, it represents approximately 180,000 scientific researchers from a pool of more than 8 million globally.
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The goals and timelines of academic researchers and those of policymakers are often not aligned to create an effective or timely bridge from research to policy. The Children’s Data Network (CDN) at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, led by co-directors Jacquelyn McCroskey and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, is helping to change that.
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Research from more than 40 faculty members and students of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will be presented at the 26th Annual Society for Social Work Research Conference - Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, January 12 - 16, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
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The first generation of people with hemophilia to live past 50 are aging in a world that doesn’t know what to do with them.
“I wasn’t expecting to be alive past 12, then 15, then 35-ish, and now I’m a fluffy 50 and having to deal with a system that’s not ready for me,” said Bobby Wiseman, who has severe hemophilia and is HIV-positive. “We weren’t supposed to get old.”
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A $2 million gift from the Epstein Family Foundation has underwritten the establishment of the new RAND-USC Epstein Family Foundation Center for Veterans Policy Research, which will expand research opportunities to better inform federal, state and local policy on veterans and military families.
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Two faculty members of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work have received the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program award from the U.S. Department of State to further their research internationally.
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Over the last decade, as opioid abuse has become a national epidemic and the number of infants and young children removed from their families because parental substance use has risen, federal child-protection policies have struggled to keep pace. Currently, the foundational child-protection legislation in the United States, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), is up for reauthorization in the U.S. Senate and includes significant changes aimed at better addressing this crisis.