UAlbany School of Social Welfare Dean, Dr. Lynn Warner, joined us to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on social work education and how the SSW is adapting during this time.
Bio:
Lynn A. Warner is Professor and Dean in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is entering her 3rd year as Dean at the school, but 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 is helping lead the team at UAlbany that was commissioned by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to inform the state about the Differential Impacts of COVID-19 in minority communities and ways to mitigate those disparities.
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. A current project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Initiative focuses on 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.
