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Winter 2009 | Return to issue home
Faculty in the News David Takeuchi, professor and associate dean for research, and two of his colleagues, Margarita Alegria (Harvard University) and James Jackson (University of Michigan), were awarded the Health Disparities Innovation Award by the National Institutes of Health. They received the honor for two groundbreaking studies, the National Survey of American Lives and the National Latino and Asian American Study. These studies are the first of their kind to provide national estimates of the social factors associated with mental disorders among African Americans, black Caribbeans, Asian Americans and Latinos. The studies provide a better understanding of the health disparities in the distribution of mental disorders, access to mental health care and the quality of mental health services available to these racial and ethnic groups.
In January, Diana Pearce, senior lecturer and director of the UW Center for Women’s Welfare, embarked on her third Fulbright Award-funded project. Dr. Pearce is conducting several intensive and targeted assignments during a month's stay in Uzbekistan. Specifically, she is consulting, lecturing students, training faculty and evaluating social work curriculum and practicum education at the Institute of Culture in Tashkent, as well as at the universities of Fergana and Samerkand. Karina Walters, William P. and Ruth Gerberding University professor and director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, was recognized by Curve, the nation’s leading magazine for lesbians, as one of the 20 powerful lesbian international academics. “These women are changing the face of academia,” the magazine said. Dr. Walters’ work among the Maori in New Zealand on a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in 2007-2008 was just one of her many awards and accomplishments the magazine cited in its March 2008 edition.In a presentation to educational leaders in Birmingham, England, J. David Hawkins, endowed professor in prevention in the School of Social Work and founding director of the school’s Social Development Research Group, cited evidence-based research to discourage educators from separating students who misbehave from positive role models of behavior in the classroom. Dr. Hawkins’ expertise was cited in the July 3, 2008, edition of the Birmingham Post.
On Jan. 30, Dean Edwina Uehara was one of four women honored at a Women in Power: Nonprofits & Community Organizations luncheon, sponsored by Women of Color Empowered. Lan Pham, MSW ’00, executive director of the Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center, was also honored. Edith Elion, BASW ’74, MSW ’77, executive director of the Atlantic Street Center, was one of the luncheon's panelists. Last September, Polly Olsen, director of community relations and advancement for the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute in the SSW, was honored at a similar event. Winter 2009 | Return to issue home | |||||
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