American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Fellows work towards promoting child welfare in Uganda, HIV prevention, and sharing gun-violence research.

Gun Violence is Declared a Public Health Crisis

June 26, 2024 — After the U.S. Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis, fellow Daniel J. Flannery, PhD was interviewed on Spectrum News to discuss the matter through his expertise as the director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. 

Watch his full Spectrum News appearance here.

Fellow Signs Memorandum of Understanding to Bolster Youth Health Policy in Uganda 

July 2, 2024 — As Founding Director of the International Center for Child and Heath Development (ICHAD) at the Brown School at the Washington University in St. Louis, Fred Ssewamala, PhD, was present at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ugandan Ministry of Health and the nonprofit AfriChild Centre. The initiative begins a joint research intervention focused on closing the knowledge gap on health policies and services that affect youths, a focus commended by the Ugandan Minister of Health, as recent headlines indicated that 50 percent of Uganda’s population is under the age of 17.

Read the full story by New Vision here. 

State Department Leaders Discuss HIV Prevention and Care

July 8, 2024 — Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Co-chair and Fellow Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, facilitated a panel featuring three state health department leaders as they reflect on state-level policies on HIV services and health outcomes. The conversation highlights healthcare financing, integration of clinical care, social care to meet the needs of the whole person, and how to center equity. 

Watch Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ panel on the HIV.gov YouTube Channel.

Fred Ssewamala Receives Faculty Achievement Award

July 10, 2024 — Fellow Fred Ssewamala, PhD, was chosen by his academic peers from The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis to receive the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award for his leadership and innovative interdisciplinary research about social welfare in youth impacted by poverty.

Read more about the award in Washington University in St. Louis’s The Source.