Research Projects

Sheila H. Akabas

• Center for Social Policy and Practice in the Workplace
• Performance Based Contracting
• Quality Assurance Reviews of Union Assistance Programs

Barbara Berkman

• Testing a model to educate social work students for geriatric practices
  
• Hartford Geriatric Faculty Scholars Program
• Post-Master's Training Grant in Clinical Oncology Social Work
• Strengthening Geriatric Social Work Through Faculty Development

Grace Christ

• Development of a social work program

Nabila El-Bassel

• Social Intervention Group (SIG)
• Center for Intervention and Prevention Research on HIV and Drug Abuse
  
• HIV Risk and Partner Violence: Men on Methadone
• Preventing HIV and Other STDs Among Drug-Involved Women
• HIV/STD Risk Reduction for African American Couples
• HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
• Columbia University Global Health Research Center for Central Asia (GHRCCA)

Ronald Feldman

• Social Indicators Survey
• The Center for the Study of Social Work Practice

Irwin Garfinkel

• Columbia Population Research Center
• Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing
• Parental Incarceration and Child Well-being

Lauren Gates

• Evidence Based Practice Project in Mental Health

Wen-Jui Han

• Bilingualism and Academic Social Development, funded by the Foundation for Child Development PK-3 initiative.
• Nonstandard Work Schedules and Child Outcomes, funded by Smith Richardson Foundation
• Cognitive and Socio-emotional Outcomes of Children of Immigrants, funded by Foundation for Child Development

Sheila B. Kamerman

• Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth, and Family Policy
• Institute for Child and Family Policy

Neeraj Kaushal

• Food Stamps and Obesity among Immigrants
• Welfare Reform and Health of Children in Immigrant Families

Vicki Lens

• A Study of TANF Work Sanctions in Texas
• Bureaucratic Disentitlement and Sanctions After Welfare Reform: Are Fair Hearings the Cure?

Ellen Lukens

• Community Awareness through Psychoeducation
• Evidence Based Practice Project in Mental Health
• Collaborative Development of a Social Work Training Center in Kazakhstan

Ronald Mincy

• Center for Research on Fathers, Children and Family Well-Being
• Dissemination of Findings from Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Project

Edward J. Mullen

• Research Training in Social Work and Mental Health
• Willma & Albert Musher Program for Life Betterment through Science and Technology

Steven Schinke

• Drug Abuse Prevention: A Mother-Daughter Intervention
• Preventing Alcohol Abuse Among High-Risk Youth

Mary Sormanti

• HIV Risk in Older Abused Women Receiving Emergency Care

Fred Ssewamala

• Asset-Ownership Development Among HIV Orphaned Children

Julien Teitler

• Fragile Families and Child Health
• Social Indicators Survey Center

Jane Waldfogel

• Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect
• Family and Children Well Being Research Network
• First Award: Family Leave & Parental Care for Children
• Inequality in Early Childhood Care and Education

Susan Witte

• HIV prevention with drug-involved couples
• HIV prevention with African American, HIV-affected heterosexual couples
• Reducing sexual risk and alcohol abuse among women in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: NAF Women’s Project
• Using Multimedia Technologies to Disseminate HIV/STI Prevention for Heterosexual Couples

Elwin Wu

• Service Use by Men on Methadone Committing Partner Abuse

Marianne R. Yoshioka

• The Peer Assistance Project

Allen Zweben

• Combining Brief and Pharmacotherapies for Alcohol Problems (The COMBINE Study)
• Combining HIV and Alcohol Interventions in STD Clinics (Project Achieve)
• HIV & Alcohol Risk Reduction for Women (Heart to Heart)