Doctoral faculty are studying:
- Child maltreatment and child well-being
- Children of immigrant families and social adjustment
- Community food security and community-based research
- Culturally competent policy, practice, and research
- Educational disparities
- Environmental Justice
- Geographic Information Systems
- Health Disparities
- Human trafficking
- Immigrant and refugee well-being and inclusion
- Implementation research in child welfare and evidence-based practices
- Integrated primary care and behavioral health services
- Integrative body-mind spirit practices
- Intimate partner violence among women and college students
- Information and communication technologies used in social work practice
- Intergenerational strategies on individual and community development
- LGBTQ+populations
- Mental health disparities and inequities among diverse populations
- Older adults and community-based interventions and services
- Grandparents raising grandchildren
- Policy research and advocacy
- Positive youth development and youth sport
- Poverty and anti-poverty policies and programs
- School mental health, school social work, school-family-community partnerships
- Social determinants of health and health equity
- Strengths-based integrative family and systems treatment for at-risk children and adolescents
- Substance abuse prevention, service access, and mutual-aid based interventions
- Trauma-informed care
Questions
For questions about the PhD Curriculum, please contact Dr. Mo Yee Lee, PhD Program Director, lee.355@osu.edu.
For questions about the PhD and MSW+PhD applications or general questions, please contact Jennifer Nakayama, PhD Coordinator, at nakayama.7@osu.edu or 614-292-6188.