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Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is home to dynamic faculty leading innovative research on pressing social justice issues, and a student body engaged in programs across five campuses and online.

"If I was straight and white, it would be different." That's what one survivor told researchers when asked why he never ...
10/16/2026

"If I was straight and white, it would be different."

That's what one survivor told researchers when asked why he never reported his sexual assault.

A new study led by Dr. Daniel Jacobson López, assistant professor and deputy Title IX coordinator at BU School of Social Work, is among the first to examine how racism and homophobia shape whether gay Latino sexual assault survivors, including Black Latino men, come forward at all.

Co-authored with faculty from Yale School of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania, it's out now in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Read the full study: http://spr.ly/6181BHz0pV

"Our history steadies us. Our values guide us. And all of you, you power us forward." In her second annual address, Pres...
10/15/2026

"Our history steadies us. Our values guide us. And all of you, you power us forward."

In her second annual address, President Melissa Gilliam shared BU's progress on our strategic framework and invited us all to seize this moment together.

Full Recap ➡️ http://spr.ly/6185BHJVRh

Professor Phillipe Copeland brings his expertise in utilizing storytelling, media, and culture to advance social change ...
10/14/2026

Professor Phillipe Copeland brings his expertise in utilizing storytelling, media, and culture to advance social change to a new role as a faculty affiliate at BU’s Center for Media Innovation and Social Impact (MISI).

Through MISI, he’ll collaborate with faculty and fellows to examine how professionals in the helping fields can use media innovation to engage communities, amplify lived experience, and expand their impact.

Read more: http://spr.ly/6180BHHgiO

A journal that has shaped child welfare practice for 100+ years has a new editor-in-chief, and she's one of BUSSW's own ...
10/13/2026

A journal that has shaped child welfare practice for 100+ years has a new editor-in-chief, and she's one of BUSSW's own faculty.

Lenette Azzi-Lessing, clinical professor at BU School of Social Work, has been named editor-in-chief of Child Welfare, the flagship research journal of the Child Welfare League of America.

Her connection to CWLA goes back over 30 years, starting as CEO of Children's Friend in Rhode Island and continuing through her academic career, including co-leading the national revision of CWLA's Standards of Excellence.

Read the full story: http://spr.ly/6189BH1eiH

In Massachusetts, 74% of full-time working parents cannot afford center-based child care under the federal affordability...
10/12/2026

In Massachusetts, 74% of full-time working parents cannot afford center-based child care under the federal affordability benchmark, according to research from BUSSW's Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development.

Dr. Pamela Joshi studies why, and who gets left out. Hear about her work on Oct. 15 at BU’s Early Childhood Well-Being Research in Progress event.

📅 Thursday, Oct. 15 | 3:30 – 5 PM ET
📍 2 Silber Way, Room 250, or virtual

Learn more and register: https://www.bu.edu/ssw/10-15-professor-joshi-shares-family-policy-research-at-early-childhood-well-being-event/

October is Health Literacy Month. 🩺 Health literacy means being able to find, understand, and use health information to ...
10/09/2026

October is Health Literacy Month. 🩺

Health literacy means being able to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions about your care. That could be reading a discharge plan, comparing insurance options, or knowing what to ask at an appointment.

It’s also about whether hospitals, clinics, and agencies make that information clear in the first place.

Social workers help on both fronts. They support individuals and families as they navigate care, and they work to make the systems around them easier to understand.

Check out the Organizational Health Literacy Resource Guide by Lindsay Rosenfeld, research scientist at the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD) at BUSSW: http://spr.ly/6189BG76uf

Learn more about IECOHD: http://spr.ly/6182BG76uC

Dean Jones cut the ribbon this week to celebrate the opening of new offices for the Center for Aging & Disability Educat...
10/08/2026

Dean Jones cut the ribbon this week to celebrate the opening of new offices for the Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER), and the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) as they join the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD) on BU’s Fenway campus!

BUSSW staff and faculty came together to tour the spaces, mingle with colleagues, and share food and great conversation.

Our 3 nationally recognized research centers are doing groundbreaking work in social work and health, aging and disability, and child health equity.

Learn more about our innovative centers at BUSSW: http://spr.ly/6185BG4fVd

Congratulations to Jerry Fu on his appointment to the Mentoring Subcommittee of the SSWR Doctoral Student Committee for ...
10/07/2026

Congratulations to Jerry Fu on his appointment to the Mentoring Subcommittee of the SSWR Doctoral Student Committee for the 2026-2027 term! 🎉

Jerry is thrilled to join a team of dedicated Doctoral student volunteers committed to strengthening the experiences of emerging social work leaders. We're so proud to have him as part of the BUSSW community.

Read more: http://spr.ly/6185BGNMlN

Meet Dr. Daniel Jacobson López (he/él/ele), assistant professor and deputy Title IX coordinator at BU School of Social W...
10/06/2026

Meet Dr. Daniel Jacobson López (he/él/ele), assistant professor and deputy Title IX coordinator at BU School of Social Work and visiting faculty at Yale University School of Public Health.

His research centers gay Latino and Black sexual assault survivors, LGBTQIA+ inclusion in higher education and addressing racism within social work curricula.

In our next E&I Speaker Series event, Dr. Jacobson López will draw on his own research to unpack how bias shows up in academia, both individually and systemically, and share practical tools for responding and showing up as an effective ally.

🎥 Recognizing and Responding to Racism and Other Bias in Academia
📅 Oct. 29 | 5:30 PM | virtual | free & open to the public

Reserve your seat: http://spr.ly/6185BGFTaV

What does equitable aging actually look like for the Latine population, who are too often treated as one group instead o...
10/05/2026

What does equitable aging actually look like for the Latine population, who are too often treated as one group instead of dozens?

Professor Barbara Mendez Campos Love takes on that question in a new social work encyclopedia entry.

She wrote "Latinx Older Adults: A Multi-System Lens," published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Social Work.

The entry covers three levels of practice: the policy and history that shape who gets access to care, the institutions meant to deliver it, and the families who often end up filling the gaps.

Read more about her entry and what it means for aging equity: http://spr.ly/6186BGLmZa

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