Registration for the conference “Global Health and Well-Being: The Social Work Response” at the New York University is now open. One of the keynote speakers at this event will be the IFSW President Professor Gary Bailey. The IFSW President for North America, Professor Jeane Anastas, is part of the Planning Committee.
This conference will bring together colleagues from around the world to examine the challenges that contribute to global health and well-being, trauma, and social injustice and to identify innovative social work and multidisciplinary responses to them. By working together for three days to exchange ideas, to share the latest research based knowledge,and to showcase pioneering global solutions, we will create a new climate for interprofessional collaboration and the advancement of global social work.This conference is designed as an international collaboration to foster interchange among colleagues from around the world. Through formal and informal interaction, this assembly of leading social work and public health researchers, economists, policy leaders, advocates, and organizational leaders will contribute to the development and sharing of new ideas and methodologies to improve global well-being, as well as advance global social work professional identity and education.
For more information and to register please visit the conference website.