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14 SpectrumGlobal Leadership: Columbia GlobalCenters Open in Beijing and AmmanColumbia University has recently established Global Centers inBeijing, China and Amman, Jordan. They are the first of whatthe University plans as a network of centers around the worldto promote and facilitate international collaborations, newresearch projects, academic programming and study abroad. InBeijing, launch events included a discussion of perspectiveson the Obama presidency featuring Alan Brinkley, ColumbiaUniversity Provost, Susan Fuhrman, President of TeachersCollege, and Dean Jeanette Takamura.At the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, theSchool of Social Work has established the Jordan Social WorkEducation for Excellence Program (JSWEEP) located at theColumbia Global Center in Amman. Co-Directed by DeanJeanette Takamura and Professor Nabila El-Bassel, the programis designed to promote the establishment of the social workprofession in Jordan and will incorporate several initiatives overthe course of the next five years in coordination with Jordaniangovernmental and non-governmental organizations and localuniversities. One of the first initiatives has been to address theneed for immediate training of line workers and supervisors inbasic skills such as assessment, case-management and evaluation.Queen Rania has identified mental health, child abuse and juvenilejustice as the top priorities for JSWEEP, and Professors RobinGearing, Michael Mackenzie and Craig Schwalbe, each of whombrings their respective expertise in these areas, have joined theJSWEEP teams in key initiatives. Nearly 200 line workers andsupervisors representing fourteen agencies have completed the2-week course since it was inaugurated in March 2009.Rizzo, V. (PI), Evaluation of DiseaseManagement Programs Implementedthrough the 2009-2010 New YorkState Capacity-Building LegislativeAllocation, Arthritis Foundation of NewYork City, awarded $24,600, April2009 – March 2010.Schinke, S. (PI), Mothers andDaughters Together: Preventing DrugAbuse among Adolescent Girls throughComputer-based, Family InvolvementIntervention, National Instituteon Drug Abuse, awarded $448,221,August 2009 – July, 2010.Schinke, S. (PI), Drug Abuse Prevention:A Mother-Daughter Intervention(supplement), National Institute onDrug Abuse, awarded $15,334, June2009 – March 2010.Schinke, S. (PI), Drug Abuse, AdolescentGirls, and Prevention: YMCACommunity, National Institute for DrugAbuse, awarded $425,198, August2009 – July 2011. Funded under theAmerican Recovery and ReinvestmentAct of 2009.Schwalbe, C.S. (PI), Social Processesin Juvenile Probation, William T. GrantFoundation Scholars Program, awarded$350,000, July 2009 – June 2014.Ssewamala, F. (PI), ChildrenDevelopment Accounts in Nigeria,Bayelsa State Government/World Bank,awarded $115,000, May 2009 – May2010.Waldfogel, J. (PI), Improving the Measurementof Poverty, Annie E. CaseyFoundation, awarded $35,000, June2009 – May 2010.Wu, E. (PI), Modeling the Impactof Group Membership Turnover inEcologically Valid Treatment, awarded$110,500, RTI International, August2009 – May 2010.SelectedPublicationsAkabas, S. H., & Gates, L. B. (2009).Connecting trade unions to the community:Promoting employment forindividuals with mental health conditions.Journal of Workplace BehavioralHealth, 24, 61-75.Berkman, B. (in press). Enhancingresearch capacity in gerontologicalsocial work. Educational Gerontology,35, 146-163.Burnette, D. (2009). Grandparentcaregiving in Caribbean Latino families:Correlates of children’s departurefrom care. Journal of IntergenerationalRelationships, 7(2), 331-43.El-Bassel, N., Caldeira, N., Ruglass,L., & Gilbert, L. (in press). Addressingunique needs of African Americanwomen in HIV prevention. AmericanJournal of Public Health.Feldman, R. A. (in press). Criticalinfrastructures for social work practiceresearch: Pondering the past, framingthe future. In A. E. Fortune, P.McCallion, & K. Briar-Lawson (Eds.),Advancing Practice Research in the21st Century. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.Garfinkel, I., Smeeding, T., &Rainwater, L. (in press). Wealth andwelfare states: Is America a laggard orleader? Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UniversityPress.Sinkewicz, M., & I. Garfinkel. (2009).Unwed fathers’ ability to pay childsupport: New estimates accounting formultiple-partner fertility. Demography,6(2), 247-264.Gearing, R. E., Mian, I., Sholonsky, A.,Barber, J., et. al. (2009). Developinga risk-model of time to first-relapse forchildren and adolescents diagnosedwith psychotic disorders or mood disorderswith psychotic features. Journal ofNervous and Mental Disease, 197(1),6-14.Gearing, R. E. & Mian, I. (2009). Therole of gender in early and very-earlyonset of psychotic disorders. ClinicalSchizophrenia & Related Psychoses,2(4), 298-306.Soletti, A. B., Guilamo-Ramos, V.,Burnette, D., & Bouris, A. (in press).India-U.S. collaboration to preventadolescent HIV-infection: The feasibilityof a family-based HIV-preventionintervention for rural Indian youth.Journal of the International AIDSSociety.Han, W-J. & Bridglall, B. L. (in press).Assessing school environments for LEPstudents using ECLS-K. Early ChildhoodResearch Quarterly.Han, W-J., & Miller, D. P. (2009). Parentalwork schedules and adolescentdepression. Health Sociology Review,18(1), 37-50.Han, W-J., Ruhm, C., & Waldfogel, J.(2009). Parental leave policies andparents’ employment and leave-taking.Journal of Public Policy Analysis andManagement, 28(1), 29-54.Han, W-J., & Bridglall, B. L. (in press).Assessing school environments for LEPstudents using ECLS-K. Early ChildhoodResearch Quarterly.
Spectrum 15Kamerman, S. B. & Gatenio-Gabel,S. (in press). A global review of newsocial risks and responses for childrenand their families. Asian Social Workand Policy Review, 3(1).Kamerman, S. B. (2009). Familiesand family policy: Developing a holisticpolicy agenda. Hong Kong Journal ofPediatrics, 14, 115-121.Kamerman, S. B. & Moss, P. (2009).The politics of parental leave policies.Bristol, UK: Policy Press.Kamerman, S. B., Phipps, S., & Ben-Arieh, A. (forthcoming). From childwelfare to child well-being. New York:Springer Publishing.Kaushal, N. (forthcoming). Elderlyimmigrants’ labor supply response tosupplemental security income. Journalof Policy Analysis and Management.Kaushal, N. (2009). Adversities ofacculturation? Prevalence of obesityamong immigrants. Health Economics,18(3), 291-303.Lens, V. (in press). Confronting governmentafter welfare reform: Moralists,reformers, and narratives of (ir)responsibilityat administrative fair hearings.Law & Society Review.Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., Keyes, K.,& Hasin, D. (in press). Parental divorce,parental depression, and genderdifferences in adult suicide attemptin offspring. Journal of Nervous andMental Disease.Lizardi D. & Gearing R.E. (2009). Religionand Suicide - Part II. Journal ofReligion and Health, 48(3), 332-341.Mui, A. C. (forthcoming). Productiveageing in China: How to turn silver intogold. China Journal of Social Work.Pinto, R. M., Campbell, A. N. C.,Hien, D., Yu, G., & Gorroochurn, P. (inpress). Retention in the NIDA clinicaltrials network women and traumastudy: Implications for post-trialimplementation. American Journal ofOrthopsychiatry.Pinto, R. M. (in press). Communityperspectives on factors that influencecollaboration in public health research.Health Behavior and Education.Engelhardt, J., Rizzo, V., Della Penna,R., Feigenbaum, P., et. al. (in press).Effectiveness of care coordination andhealth counseling in advancing illness.American Journal of Managed Care.Schwalbe, C. S., & Maschi, T. (inpress). Confronting delinquency:Probations officers use of coercion andclient centered tactics to foster youthcompliance. Crime and Delinquency.Lenze, E. J., Rollman, B. L., Shear, K.,Dew, M. A., et al. (2009). Escitalopramfor older adults with generalizedanxiety disorder: a randomized controlledtrial. Jama, 301(3), 295-303.Zisook, S., & Shear, K. (2009). Griefand bereavement: What psychiatristsneed to know. World Psychiatry, 8(2),67-74.Mancini, A. D., Robinaugh, A. D.,Shear, K., & Bonanno, G. A. (2009).Does attachment avoidance helppeople cope with loss? The moderatingeffects of relationship quality. Journalof Clinical Psychology, 65, 1-10.Ssewamala, F. M., Chang-Keun, H., &Neilands, T. (2009). Asset ownershipand health and mental health functioningamong AIDS-orphaned adolescents:Findings from a randomized clinicaltrial in rural Uganda. Social Scienceand Medicine, 69(2), 191-198.Ssewamala, F. M. & Ismayilova, L. (inpress). Integrating children savingsaccounts in the care and support oforphaned adolescents in rural Uganda.Social Service Review.Ssewamala, F. M., Chang-Keun, H.,Neilands, T., Ismayilova, L., & Sperber,E. (in press). The effect of economicassets on sexual risk taking intentionsamong orphaned adolescents inUganda. American Journal of PublicHealth.Teitler, J., Reichman, N., Nepomnyaschy,L., & Garfinkel, I. (in press).Effects of welfare participation on marriage.Journal of Marriage and Family.Teitler, J. (forthcoming). The changingfamily and public health. In R. Detels,R. Beaglehole, M. Lansan, & M. Gulliford(Eds.), Oxford Textbook of PublicHealth, 5th Edition.Waldfogel, J. (forthcoming). Britain’swar on poverty. New York: Russell SageFoundation.Witte, S. S., El-Bassel, N., Gilbert,L., Wu, E., & Chang, M. (in press).Lack of awareness of partner HIV/STI risk among heterosexual couples.Perspectives on Sexual and ReproductiveHealth.Zweben, A., Fucito, L. M., O’Malley,S. S. (2009). Effective strategies formaintaining research participation inclinical trials. Drug Information Journal,43, 459-467.SelectedInternationalPresentationsProfessor Sheila Kamerman participatedin an expert meeting on familypolicy sponsored by the Doha InternationalInstitute for Family Studies andDevelopment and the United Nation’sProgram on the Family in the Divisionfor Social Policy and Development(DSPD) in Doha, Qatar.Professor Nabila El-Bassel presented“HIV among Drug Users in Kazakhstan:Driving Forces and Implications forHIV Prevention & Treatment” and “TheSilk Road Study: Migration and HIVamong Market Vendors in Kazakhstan”at the University of Malaya in KualaLumpur, Malaysia.Professor Ada Mui presented “ProductiveAging in China: How to Turn Silverinto Gold” at Shandong University inShandong Province, China.Associate Professor Fred Ssewamalapresented “Using Child DevelopmentAccounts to Divert Exploitive Child LaborParticipation and Increase SchoolAttendance in Developing Countries:Global Leadership: Columbia UniversityGlobal Health Research Center of Central AsiaTwenty health professionals from Kazakhstan participated in theGlobal Health Research Center of Central Asia’s (GHRCCA)Research Science Training on biostatistics and epidemiology atthe Almaty Institute of Public Health in Almaty, Kazakhstan.The training, funded by the Republic of Kazakhstan Ministryof Health, was conducted by Associate Professor Julien Teitler,and faculty from SUNY colleges and staff from the New YorkState Department of Health.Led by Nabila El-Bassel, the Center is the first researchcenter established by a university in Central Asia. GHRCCAdevelops and advances evidence-based, sustainable solutionsto emerging public health and social issues in the Central Asiaregion through rigorous research, education, training andpolicy. By bringing together multidisciplinary experts, localand international partners, government, and universities, theCenter is creating unique partnerships and collaborative effortsto develop and advance cross border, sustainable solutions.
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