Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work Newsroom

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Rumi Agarwal, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Health at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, was recently awarded a grant from the Social Security Administration’s Analyzing Relationships between Disability, Rehabilitation and Work (ARDRAW) Small Grant Program to examine financial planning experiences among families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) , especially in respect to the ABLE Act. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] SocialWorkDegree.org, a comprehensive guide that enables students to compare all online and campus-based social work programs in the U.S., ranked two Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work among the top degrees in Florida for 2020. The Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW) degree ranked 2nd best in the state while the Master of Social Work (MSW) ranked 3rd. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Rahel Dawit, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, was recently awarded a two-year grant for $68,122 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health to examine social and physical neighborhood factors such as living in economically deprived neighborhoods or distance to care facilities on HIV care outcomes, and their impact on sustained HIV viral suppression. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] “Public health professions often go unseen. These are the people who are keeping us safe and preventing illness before it happens,” said Deidre A. Okeke ‘17, public health admissions coordinator at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. “The pandemic has highlighted these professions and the need for public health careers. I would not be surprised to see public health positions in companies where we never expected them to be, with those jobs taking center stage soon.” [/su_column] [/su_row]