A Diverse Profession: Social Work in the Twenty-first Century
Student Diversity Conference
Paul Brown, A.M. Candidate
Tianna Cervantez, A.M. Candidate
Date: May 9, 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
The first annual Diversity Conference kicks off the SSA Centennial celebration with an examination of the many ways in which social workers and the social work profession are enhancing peoples’ lives and promoting the principles of social justice worldwide. Particular emphasis will be on the impact of social work on public health, economic development, and human rights both domestically and internationally. Panelists and attendees will be challenged to create and consider innovative solutions to global problems from a social work perspective.
Keynote Speaker
Joia Mukherjee trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she teaches medical students, residents and fellows in the fields of infectious disease, global health and health disparities.
Since 2000, Dr. Mukherjee has served as the Medical Director of Partners In Health, an international medical charity with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, and inner-city Boston. In this capacity she is involved in programmatic and clinical work to provide health care and reduce health disparities by developing public sector, community-based programs with local colleagues in those countries. Additionally, Dr. Mukherjee consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries and is a member of the Executive Board of Health Action AIDS, a campaign conducted with Physicians for Human Rights to engage the US health professional community in the international advocacy and education effort to stop the global AIDS pandemic.
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Symposium Program
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00am - 10:25am | Opening Keynote Address Introduction: Paul Brown and Tianna Cervantez Jeanne C. Marsh, Dean, School of Social Service Administration |
| 10:30am - 11:10am | Human Rights Panel Moderators: Meghan Overmyer and Eugene Robinson Panelists: Mary Shuttleworth, President, Youth for Human Rights International Simone Koehlinger, Director, Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Health-Department of Health Mary Meg McCarthy, Director, National Immigrant Justice Center – Heartland Alliance |
| 11:15am - 11:55am | Public Health Panel Moderators: Geneva Dodson and Ingrid Mejia Panelists: Harold Pollack, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration Jessica Darrow, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Service Administration Dr. Tulio Rodriguez, Physician, Loyola University Health System Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center Sarah Gehlert, Professor, School of Social Service Administration |
| 12:00pm - 1:25pm | Luncheon Keynote Address Introduction: Tianna Cervantez Speaker: Joia Mukherjee, Medical Director, Partners in Health |
| 1:30pm - 2:10pm | Individuals and Families Panel Moderator: Willie Carl (C.J.) Harmon, Jr. Terri Johnson, Vice President, Jane Addams Hull House Association Wallace Goode, Associate Dean of Students in the University and Director of the University Community Service Center (UCSC) Julia Henly, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration |
| 2:15pm - 2:55pm | Economic Development Panel Moderator: Paul Brown Panelists: William Sites, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration Laura Lane, Executive Director, Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation Joel Bookman, Director of Programs, Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
| 3:00pm - 315pm | Closing comments Paul Brown, A.M. Candidate, School of Social Service Administration Tianna Cervantez, A.M. Candidate, School of Social Service Administration |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm | Reception |
