Social work leadership in health and public health is needed now more than ever. How is the social work field preparing for the future? What promise does social work hold for addressing the challenges that lay ahead? How can social workers leverage rapid change to steward the field for equitable and accessible health and well-being for all? Join the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH), Director Dr. Tami Gouveia, and Boston University School of Social (BUSSW) Dean Barbara Jones for a conversation on how social workers can strengthen public health and the ways CISWH and BUSSW are forging a path for social work leadership in health equity.
4:00PM-5:00PM Lecture
5:00PM-6:30PM Welcome Reception
The target audience of this lecture and discussion is LICSW, LCSW, LSW, LSWA and other health care professionals. The Future of Social Work in Health is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/03/2022 – 11/03/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
1.0 national continuing education credit (free) is available to social workers licensed in the United States after the completion of a brief post-event quiz. The event will provide intermediate-level content and must be attended live in order to receive CE credits. If you would like to receive credits, please provide your license number during registration. The post-event quiz will be sent out at the end of the event. Applicants will need to earn a score of 70% or higher to receive the CE certificate, which will be sent via email. Questions? Contact ciswh@bu.edu.
Speakers: Dr. Tami Gouveia and Dr. Barbara Jones
Dr. Tami Gouveia
Appointed Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health and Paul Farmer Professor in 2023, Dr. Tami Gouveia has extensive experience as a leader in social work and public health, policymaking, and change management. Throughout her 25-year career, she has used her expertise to drive meaningful change, improve community health outcomes, and promote economic and racial equity. She served in key leadership positions in nonprofit, philanthropic, and governmental organizations, including as director at the Massachusetts State Auditor’s Office, The Rippel Foundation, Tobacco Free Mass, and the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. Believing in the power of people working together for our shared humanity, Dr. Gouveia founded and led several efforts, including the Lowell Roundtable on Substance Abuse Prevention and the Massachusetts Chapter of the Women’s March.
Dr. Gouveia was elected to two terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where she passed legislation to combat the opioid crisis, defend reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ rights, advance housing and climate justice, reform education funding and the criminal legal system, and invest in programs to prevent and treat childhood trauma.
Dr. Gouveia has taught courses at the BU School of Public Health and Salem State University School of Social Work. She has been a guest speaker at dozens of state and national conferences and an invited lecturer at the BU School of Social Work, the BU School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Emerson College, UMass Lowell, and UMass Amherst.
Dr. Gouveia holds a Doctor of Public Health in management, leadership and policy and a Master of Public Health from the BU School of Public Health and a Master of Social Work from the BU School of Social Work.
Dr. Barbara Jones
Dean Barbara Jones, PhD, MSW, FAOSW, is one of the nation’s top scholars in the field of psychosocial oncology and palliative care. She joined BUSSW in 2023 from the University of Texas at Austin where she had been a member of the faculty for nearly twenty years. At UT Austin, Jones served as university distinguished professor, Lockhart Memorial Professor in Direct Social Work Practice, founding director of the Institute for Collaborative Health Research and Practice, and associate dean for health affairs in the university’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work. She was also a distinguished professor and inaugural chair of the Department of Health Social Work at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School – a department she helped build to bridge the social work and medical schools.
A first-generation college student, Jones earned her PhD and MSW in social welfare from the University at Albany (NY) and practiced as a clinical social worker for 15 years. She served from 2004-2011 as core faculty on the Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and is currently on the national advisory boards for the Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program and the American Cancer Society’s Center for Diversity in Research Training. She serves on the national steering committee of the Coalition for Social Work and Health. Her research, which is supported by major grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society, focuses on improving care for children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer and their families.
In addition to co-editing three acclaimed books in oncology and palliative care and publishing more than 120 articles in top-tier journals, Jones is a past recipient of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers Social Worker of the Year award and was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in 2020. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Board and became the first social worker to receive the American Cancer Society’s Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award. She is a distinguished scholar and fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a 2023 fellow of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society as well as the Association of Oncology Social Work.
Directions
Hybrid: Zoom and Kilachand Center 101
The event will be held in Kilachand Center 101 located at 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 and streamed online for those unable to attend in person.