Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Denise Burnette is the Samuel S. Wurtzel Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University and Professor Emerita at Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research focuses on health, mental health and psychosocial well-being of older adults, particularly in the context of changing social structures in low-resource settings. She served for ten years as an International Scholar with the Open Society in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. She held Senior Fulbright fellowships at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India and at the Centre for Research on HIV and AIDS at the University of Botswana. Dr. Burnette has extensive professional social work experience in health and mental health settings with older adults. She has served as the Director of Social Work PhD programs for almost a decade and is the current President of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE). She is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET