American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Fellows discuss early education and child welfare, and call for the medical community to address the HIV crisis among Latinos.

Virtual Policy Briefing Discusses Early Education and Child Welfare

November 14, 2024 — The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and the Academy hosted a policy briefing aimed to address the intersection between early childhood education and the child welfare system. After opening remarks from Academy President and NYU Silver School of Social Work Dean Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, panelists discussed the impact of educational access on child development, and emphasized the importance of collaboration between education and welfare systems in supporting families.

“Building services and systems that respond to families as they show up is really hard,” said panelist, Professor and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Fellow Katherine Magnuson, PhD. “And that sort of cross- system building and implementation is where the research needs to go.”

Watch the briefing on the The Brown School’s YouTube Channel

Fellow Outlines Strategies to Address HIV in the Latino Community

November 13, 2024 — Fellow and executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, wrote an opinion piece in the Miami Herald titled, “CDC numbers offer good news on HIV infections overall but reveal a crisis for Latinos.” The article outlines strategies that the medical community can use to address the largely invisible HIV crisis impacting the Latino community. Dr. Guilamo Ramos calls for raising awareness, representative care, smarter prevention, and legislation. 

Read the full opinion piece in the Miami Herald