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Mandel School PhD student Braveheart Gillani co-authors paper with School of Medicine professor
Mandel School doctoral student Braveheart Gillani and Peter Hovmand, the Pamela B. Davis Professor of Medicine, co-authored an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Their article is titled “Ageing among Black and non-Hispanic White older adults: A community-based system…
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5 questions with… Emmanuelle Iskandar, a Mandel School student making a career change
Emmanuelle Iskandar completed her bachelor’s degree in food engineering in Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020—the day after the devastating port explosion in Beirut. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis the explosion had caused, it was challenging for freshly graduated students like Iskandar…
Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland launches 3 new preschools to address childcare crisis
WEWS: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the struggles parents face finding quality schools and daycares that are also affordable.   Read the article
Student Spotlight: Erika Kura
Class Year: 2024 Degree Program: Dual Degree Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health Concentrations: Community Practice for Social Change (MSW) and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (MPH) When Erika Kura started volunteering at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, she was…
For the Children: Establishing a More Effective Behavioral Health Program for Ohio Families
Some Ohio parents whose children have critical behavioral-health needs faced an agonizing decision in recent years: whether to give up custody of their children to secure care in a live-in treatment center they simply couldn’t afford. It was a heartbreaking reality Ohio officials wanted to remedy…
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Tackling Trauma
When the city of Cleveland launched ambitious plans to scale up mental health services for residents, it turned to the nonprofit Frontline Services and Case Western Reserve’s Center on Trauma and Adversity for help. Megan Holmes, PhD, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…
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Economic numbers offer clues to low-income residents’ struggle with high inflation
Signal Cleveland: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the impact of inflation on food prices, which skyrocketed 11.4%. “We built these support systems, like food stamps [SNAP], that…
Redline
Analyzing the blueprints of redlining in Ohio
APP researchers find impacts of 1930s lending practices persist today Eighty years after the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) carved up the nation’s metropolitan neighborhoods into redlined maps, researchers at APP School of…
Doctoral students Wenxing Wei and Sarah Balser published in high-impact journal
Last month, Wenxing Wei and Sarah Balser, two doctoral students at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Sciences, were recognized for their systematic review paper, “A Systematic Review: Risk and Protective Factors of Elder Abuse for Community-Dwelling Racial Minorities.”…
January 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter
In this issue: School News Upcoming Events and CEU Opportunities Student Spotlights Alumni News Faculty News Employment and Career Development Opportunities Read the January 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter.