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The 2025 International Conference on Integrated Health and Social Work, held at National Taiwan University (NTU), brought together over 20 scholars from 12 universities across South Korea, Vietnam, Macau, the United States, and Taiwan. The two-day event served as a dynamic platform for advancing interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the field of integrated health and social work.
A forum hosted by the Rutgers School of Social Work’s Center for Research on Ending Violence recognized a gift in support of scholarships and honored a Rutgers alumna.
For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer treatments, or to stop treatments and prioritize a more comfortable passing. What a patient wants, however, isn’t always what they receive, according to a study co-authored by Associate Professor Ayse Akincigil, Ph.D. published in the journal Cancer.
Rutgers School of Social Work will be represented at the Society for Social Work & Research (SSWR)'s 29th Annual Conference from January 15-19, 2025 by a number of presentations being hosted by our faculty, postdocs, Ph.D. students, lecturers, alumni, and staff.
On November 22 and 23, Rutgers School of Social Work co-hosted the 2024 International Symposium on Children and Youth Health and Well-Being with the Faculty of Health Sciences of University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Macao Observatory for Social Development at USJ, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and the Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, with supported from the Hong Kong Shue Yan University Social Work Department and sponsored by the Macao Foundation.
Making the medication, used to reverse an opioid overdose, freely available may help reduce the stigma associated with treatment