Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Dr. Dione Moultrie King is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia (PhD, MSW) and Spelman College (BA-Sociology). Dr. King’s research examines adolescent health risk behaviors (i.e. early and risky sexual practices, dating violence, substance use), sexual and reproductive health disparities, and social work education. Currently, she is focused on the role of health determinants in behavioral and sexual health disparities that impact the health of Black adolescents and young adults to improve behavioral health outcomes. Her research has been featured in several academic journals including the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Social Work in Public Health, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, Child & Youth Services Review, and the Journal of Family Social Work. Dr. King lives by the motto, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This quote taken directly from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 Letter from a Birmingham jail resonates with her as a social worker and reflects the impact she seeks to make in the lives of individuals, families, communities and systems.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM