Lynn A. Warner is Professor and Dean in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, SUNY. Although she just completed her first year as Dean at the school, she has been on the faculty at SSW for more than 10 years. During that time she’s taught in the MSW and PhD programs and collaborated with faculty and staff in many administrative roles, including director of the MSW program and associate dean for research.
Her research focuses on disparities in the delivery of mental and behavioral health services, especially disparities experienced by groups who are vulnerable because of low-income status or age, and who are racial or ethnic minorities. She has published more than 60 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and her research has been supported by more than $1 million in national foundation and federal government grants. Currently, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is supporting her current project to use Medicaid data merged with mortality data from 20 states in the U.S. to identify suicide risk profiles among youth. She is also funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Initiative for a study of how behavioral health service providers in rural New York are adapting to significant changes in the way Medicaid managed care reimburses for their services.
Dean Warner is proud to be a first generation college graduate who earned a Master of Public Policy Degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and MSW and PhD degrees in sociology and social work from the University of Michigan.
