Faculty

Adrian Aguilera

Associate Professor
Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera’s research leverages digital & mobile technologies along with innovative methods such as machine learning to improve health & mental healthcare of low-income & ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latinx & Spanish-speaking populations.

Jamie Chang shares personal and professional path to exploring systemic causes of homelessness

November 8, 2023
Jason Pohl

Headshot of Jamie ChangBerkeley News recently profiled new Social Welfare professor Jamie Chang: "Jamie Chang has studied...

Angela Perone appointed to Gerontological Society of America's Public Policy Advisory Panel

September 28, 2022

Assistant Professor Angela Perone was appointed to the Public Policy Advisory Panel of the Gerontological Society of America, the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. From the GSA: "The Public Policy Advisory Panel provides specialized expertise, advice, key information, and support in the area of public policy and...

NIH funds collaboration to improve mental health treatment for Latinos

October 3, 2022
UCI News

Dr. Adrian Aguilera's work is featured in ongoing NIH funding developments, as reported in UCI News:

"Irvine, Calif., Oct. 3, 2022 – The National Institutes of Health is awarding nearly $4.7 million over five years to support research teams from University of California campuses in Irvine, Berkeley and San Francisco who are collaborating on a new project...

https://news.uci.edu/2022/10/03/nih-funds-collaboration-to-improve-mental-health…

Joyce Dorado

Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships

Dr. Joyce Dorado is a Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Co-Founder and Director of Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS). Dr. Dorado is a nationally recognized expert in partnering with schools and other youth-serving systems to create trauma-informed, equitable, and healing organizations. She has served as an appointed member of the California State Supreme Court Justice’s statewide steering committee for the Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts...

Susan Stone joins American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Board

January 5, 2023

Susan Stone, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education, has joined the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Advisory Board for 2023.

The Academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good. Dr. Stone’s research interests include understanding family and school influences on child and adolescent academic performance,...

Dr. Jamie Chang Joins Faculty

August 29, 2023

Dr. Jamie Chang has joined the School of Social Welfare faculty and community this summer as Associate Professor.

Dr. Chang’s research involves investigating the structural determinants that impact the health of unhoused people, focusing on the role of social policies (e.g. encampment sweeps) on unhoused people’s health outcomes. Recently, she has led mixed-methods studies which examine the soaring numbers of people dying while unhoused in Santa Clara County. Her lab developed the ...

Adrian Aguilera on therapy for people who can’t go to therapy

September 27, 2022
Adrian Aguilera

"The way Americans receive mental health care has never changed as quickly as it has since the spring of 2020. When the Covid pandemic forced so many of us into our homes and onto Zoom, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and social workers followed. What started as a short-term fix is now becoming permanent. Today, nearly 40 percent of mental health and substance use outpatient treatment visits at hospitals and clinics are offered remotely,...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/therapy-technology-mental-health.html