For those attending the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting, be sure to catch the BU alumni, faculty and staff that will be presenting:
Military Family Mental Health: Implications for Preventive Interventions
Abigail Ross, MSW, MPH, David Prouty, MSW, MPH and Ellen DeVoe, PhD
Monday October 31, 9:30 AM
Situated Mothering: Role Transformation for Wives of Deployed Service Members
Ellen Maynard, BA, Abigail Ross, MSW, MPH, Ruth Paris, PhD and Ellen DeVoe, PhD
Tuesday November 1, 11:30 AM
Mapping the practice of public health social work: Results from an MSW/MPH alumni survey
Betty J. Ruth, MSW, MPH, Jamie Wyatt Marshall, MSW, MPH, Esther Hill, MSW, MPH, Laura Ann Taranto, MSW, MPH, Sarah Sisco, MPH, MSSW and Sara Bachman, PhD
Wednesday November 2, 12:45 PM
Educating Social Workers in CBT for Anxiety Disorders
Betty J. Ruth, MSW, MPH, Gail Steketee, PhD, Jennifer Gehnrich, BA and Ellen Kreida, BA
Wednesday November 2, 1:15 pm
Health Equality Peer Education Training (HEPE): Strengthening Youth Philanthropy With Ideals of Health Equity
Travis Howlette, BS, Kelsey Anilionis, BS, Jeffrey Wisniowski, BS, Kerone Anderson, MSW, MPH and Elizabeth Stanley, Bachelor’s of Science Nursing Student
Tuesday November 1, 4:30 PM (Roundtable)
Public Health Faith-Based Initiative
Cindy Theodore, RN, BSN, Triniese Polk, MSHC, Lynsey Avalone, BA, and M. Anita Barry, MD, MPH
Tuesday November 1, 12:30 PM (Roundtable)
Mothers fleeing to the US for safety due to domestic violence: Hague Convention cases & the Latinas’ perspective
Luz M. Lopez, PhD, MPH, LCSW, Gita Mehrotra, MSW, Taryn Lindhorst, PhD, LCSW and Jeffrey Edleson, PhD
Wednesday November 2, 1:30 PM
Suicidal ideation and substance use among Asian-American young women
Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW, Lena Lundgren, PhD, Ja Yoon Uni Choe and Victoria Lo
Tuesday November 1, 2:50 PM
CHILD Maltreatment Among Asian-American Women: HIV RISK Behaviors, Depression and Suicidality
Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW, Eric Kolaczyk, PhD, Jisun Jang, BS, MA Candidate and Lisa Ng, BA Candidate
Sunday October 30. 2:30 PM (Roundtable)
Inter-organization collaboration: Factors affecting community health policy advocacy efforts aimed at addressing health inequities among youth
Rebecca R. Cheezum, MPH, Barbara A. Israel, DrPH, Cleopatra Caldwell, PhD, Edith A. Parker, DrPH, Melvin Delgado, PhD and Michael Spencer, PhD
Monday October 31, 12:30 PM
Promoting aging-friendly urban neighborhoods: Evaluation of the Aging Well at Home Demonstration Program
Judith G. Gonyea, PhD
Tuesday November 1, 5:24 PM
Catalysts of organizational change: What sparks and maintains interest in regional approaches to public health service delivery?
Justeen Hyde, PhD, Jessica A. Waggett, MPH, Lise Fried, DSc, MS, Brianna Mills, MA and Geoffrey Wilkinson, MSW
Wednesday November 2, 10:50 AM
Boston University Schools of Social Work & Public Health
As an early advocate for trans-disciplinary public health and social work collaboration, Boston University is one of the oldest graduate programs offering a dual degree in social work and public health. With more than 275 alumni and 35 current students, the MSW/MPH program at Boston University is a vibrant and exciting place to study. In 2006, the Schools of Social Work and Public Health, along with the Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the program by hosting “Public Health Social Work in the 21st Century, ” a national conference on public health social work. More than 200 public health, social work, and other professionals participated in the day-long working conference to share best practices in PHSW and to create an action plan for promoting public health social work within and across disciplines. Learn more
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston University School of Social Work
The Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives (GPSI)
The Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives (GPSI), formed in 2003 by an independent group of public health social work practitioners, is an ad hoc working group affiliated with Boston University. GPSI promotes public health social work through education, research, professional development, and trans-disciplinary activities.
Recent GPSI research includes:
Wyatt Marshall, J, Ruth, BJ, Sisco, S, Cohen, M, Bachman, S. Social work interest in prevention: A content analysis of the professional literature. (Under review; submitted February, 2009) Social Work.
Ruth, BJ & Sisco S. Public health social work. In: Mizrahi, T., & Davis, L. (Eds). Encyclopedia of social work (20th ed). New York: National Association of Social Workers, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ruth BJ, Sisco S, Wyatt J, Bethke C, Bachman S, Markham Piper, T. Public health and social work: Training dual professionals for the contemporary workplace. Public Health Reports, 2008 (2) 123.
Ruth BJ, Wyatt J, Chiasson E, Geron S, Bachman S. Social work and public health: Comparing graduates from a dual-degree program. Journal of Social Work Education. 2006; 42, (2).
GPSI Members:
Betty J. Ruth, LCSW, MSW, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, MSW/MPH Program
Director, Certificate in Behavioral Medicine
Director, Professional Education Programs
Boston University School of Social Work
264 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
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Betty J Ruth, MSW, MPH is Associate Professor at Boston University School of Social Work, where she chairs the Social Work Ethics department and directs the MSW/MPH and Professional Education Programs. Her primary research areas are public health social work training/evaluation and suicide prevention education. She is co-founder of the Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives, a working group dedicated to public health social work advocacy, training and research.
Trained in public health and social work, Ms. Ruth’s background is in substance abuse treatment and prevention, infant mortality and cardiovascular risk reduction, and infant mental health promotion. Recent publications include an overview of public health social work for the 20th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work (with Sarah Sisco) and a co-authored article in Social Work, “Social work interest in prevention: A content analysis of the professional literature.” Ms. Ruth’s professional activities include four years’ service on the Massachusetts licensing board and consultation to agencies on issues of ethics and multicultural organizational development. Ms. Ruth is a Governing Councilor for the Social Work Section of American Public Health Association and Consulting Editor for Health and Social Work and Journal of Social Work in Public Health.
Sarah Sisco, MPH, MSSW
Director of Evaluation
Bureau of Emergency Management
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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Sarah Sisco, MPH, MSSW, is Director of Evaluation at the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). She oversees the evaluation design, conduct, and execution of internal Agency response operations, as well as preparedness exercises, drills, and select trainings. Sarah is also a member of the CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Evaluation Workgroup, a national group of local, state and
federal stakeholders working to shape performance evaluation, improvement, and reporting related to emergency preparedness; the PHEP Evaluation Workgroup subgroup committee on Community Resilience and Recovery; and co-Chairs the PHEP Evaluation Intervention Workgroup. In addition, Sarah manages a qualitative Agency partnership project with three NYC DOHMH District Public Health Offices located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem that informs data collection, partnership- and program development to bolster community resilience and response Citywide. Sarah is co-founder and researcher for the Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives (GPSI), an ad hoc research and training group in partnership with Boston University School of Social Work. Sarah holds a Master of Science in Social Work degree from Columbia University and a Master of Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health.
Jamie Wyatt Marshall, LCSW, MSW, MPH
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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Jamie Wyatt Marshall, LICSW, MPH has worked and volunteered in multiple settings over the past decade, blending skills of social work and public health in clinical and community settings. Her clinical work has primarily focused on working with children and families, with specific expertise in trauma and violence prevention. Her most recent work has been focused in organizational and community development with an emphasis in prevention and health equity, particularly in the areas of obesity prevention and access to care and services. She graduated from the Boston University School of Social Work in 2005 and the Boston University School of Public Health in 2006, and is currently a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She is co-founder of the Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives, a working group dedicated to public health social work advocacy, training and research. She has presented at multiple national conferences and has co-authored publications in five peer-reviewed journals. She has served as a Section Councilor for the Social Work Section of American Public Health Association and is an active member of both APHA and NASW.
Christina Bethke, MSW
Project Coordinator, Tiyatien Health
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Christina Bethke, MSW serves as the Program Coordinator for Tiyatien Health (TH), a NGO that seeks to pioneer a community-based health system to help overcome the challenges of poor infrastructure, workforce shortages and poverty in post-war Liberia. At TH, Christina is responsible for building staff capacity on and leading the management, implementation, tracking, and reporting of comprehensive project activities at TH’s primary project site in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. Previously, Christina was the Project Coordinator for the Global Health Delivery Project (GHD), a project founded by Paul Farmer, Jim Kim and Michael Porter, at Harvard University. During her tenure, she coordinated a Health Systems Strengthening collaboration project with the World Health Organization and eight university partners. She also coordinated the first joint HSPH-HMS course offering, Global Health Effectiveness Program, in July 2009. Prior to joining Harvard, Christina worked in health promotion and program planning & evaluation at PACT, a sister organization to Partners In Health and part of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Department of Global Health Equity. Christina graduated from Boston University in 2006. During her graduate school tenure, she served as Research Assistant concentrating on evidence-based practice in public health social work.
Tinka Markham Piper, CSW, MPH
Program Research Associate
Institute for Health and Social Policy
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Tinka Markham Piper MPH, CSW, is the Director of Student Programs at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University. For the past four years, she has directed the policy fellowship program (“Population Health: Moving from Evidence to Effective Public Policy”), a unique graduate and undergraduate multidisciplinary training program that bridges research and policy development with students gaining experience in over 25 countries. Content areas that have been studied by policy fellows have included educational equity, discrimination and health, working conditions, civic participation and equity, sustainable cities and environmental health and disability and equity in the workforce. In addition, she has managed the IHSP research internship program, which has trained over 100 McGill students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines and provided them an opportunity to become a part of the Institute’s research initiatives. She is also co-founder of the Group for Public Health Social Work Initiatives (GPSI), an independent research partnership with Boston University researchers in public health and social work. Tinka has co-authored articles published in more than 15 peer-reviewed journals and has presented at multiple conferences. She has been a Peer reviewer for the Journal of Urban Health (JUH) as well as a reviewer for the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and a Master of Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences) degree from the Mailman School of Public Health.
Sara S. Bachman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Research
Boston University School of Social Work
264 Bay State Road
Boston, Massachusetts, 02215
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Sara S. Bachman, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Research Department at the Boston University School of Social Work and Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. She has twenty years’ experience with health policy research and program evaluation, especially in the area of state health policy for youth and adults with disabilities or complex health and social conditions. Dr. Bachman serves as Co-Principal Investigator of HRSA’s SPNS Innovations in Oral Health Evaluation and Technical Support Center. She is Director of Research for the Catalyst Center, one of six national centers funded to improve financing of care for children with special health care needs. Dr. Bachman has also participated in several studies of access to health care services for adults and children with disabilities across the spectrum of disability. She has served as a research partner with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health investigating the transition of youth with disabilities to adulthood. Dr. Bachman has also evaluated health reform initiatives using data from the Massachusetts Survey of Insurance Status and has studied the cost and impact of mandated benefits and was Co-Principal Investigator of a project to examine the specific role of the Commonwealth Connector in the Massachusetts health reform initiative. Dr. Bachman has served as Co-Principal Investigator of two program evaluations sponsored by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. One is an evaluation of an outreach and case management program for injection drug users at risk for HIV and the second is an evaluation of an outreach and case management program targeting men who have sex with men. Dr. Bachman has an M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health, and this perspective has informed her approach to understanding disability and public health issues. Dr. Bachman received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University’s Florence Heller School where she was a Pew Health Policy Fellow. Dr. Bachman teaches Research Methods to Master’s and Doctoral students at the Boston University School of Social Work where she also directs the school’s doctoral program. Dr. Bachman chairs the Boston University Charles River Campus Institutional Review Board.
Esther Hill, MSW, MPH
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Esther Hill, MSW, MPH is a public health social worker who has worked domestically and internationally with medical and social service agencies targeting under served communities. After graduating from the dual degree program at Boston University Schools of Public Health and Social Work in 2009, she worked as a research fellow at Boston University directing a randomized control trial targeting Latino caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s dementia. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral career at Harvard’s School of Public Health. Her clinical and research interests include identifying and addressing the cumulative affects of social determinants of health on outcomes for older adults.
Luz M. López, PhD, MPH, LCSW
Boston University School of Social Work
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Luz M. López, PhD, MPH, LCSW, is a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University School of Social Work. She teaches clinical practice, group interventions, and advanced courses in substance abuse and trauma. She is also an advisor for the MSW/MPH dual degree students. Her research interests are in the areas of addiction, HIV/AIDS prevention, and development of culturally responsive trauma-informed interventions working with Latinos reintegrating into the community after incarceration. She also conducts an annual cultural immersion public health social work travel course and research experience in Puerto Rico, for Boston University graduate students. The focus of study is on public health approaches to substance abuse assessment, program development, evaluation and evidence-based practices, particularly community-based participatory research. Dr. López is passionate about teaching and creating innovative transformative educational opportunities that promote social justice.
