Junior Specialist
Gartley Hall Rm. 004B
Phone: 808.956.9885
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: rgarndt@hawaii.edu
- Technology in practice and education
- Lifelong learning and professional development/competency
- Values, ethics, & reflective practice
- Leadership
- Interprofessional education
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 205C
Phone: 808.956.6245
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: clifford.bersamira@hawaii.edu
- Addiction/Behavioral Health Policies and Service Delivery
- Addiction/Behavioral Health Services and Healthcare Reform
- Recovery Support Services and Mutual Aid
- Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian Behavioral Health Disparities
- Behavioral Health Systems and Services Integration
Faculty Instructor
Gartley Hall Rm. 009
Tel: 808.956.6205
E-mail: skboone@hawaii.edu
- Depression
- Suicide Prevention
Professor
Tel: 808.956.5768
E-mail: kbraun@hawaii.edu
Website: www.hawaii.edu/aging/
- Asian and Pacific Islander aging
- End-of-life decision making
- Minority health
- Community-based research and evaluation
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 201D
Phone: 808.956.6240
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: rburrage@hawaii.edu
- Indigenous well-being
- Culture and mental health
- Historical and collective trauma
- Individual and community resilience
Junior Specialist
Gartley Hall Rm. 004A
Phone: 808.956.5715
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: aimee.chung@hawaii.edu
- Trauma Informed Care
- Wellness, Well-being, & Culturally-Grounded Self-Care
- Child Abuse Prevention
- Interpersonal Violence
- Issues facing oppressed, marginalized, and differently-abled populations
- Interprofessional Social Work
- Field Education
Assistant Specialist, BSW Program Chair
Gartley Hall Rm. 006
Tel: 808.956.6135
E-mail: mdmattos@hawaii.edu
- Teens & their families
- Substance abuse
- Best practice
Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 216
Tel: 808.956.6239
E-mail: meripa@hawaii.edu
Website: Child and Family Research Lab
- Juvenile delinquency prevention
- Social and adjustment issues of Pacific Islander adolescents
- Multi-culture and cross-culture issues
Associate Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 201A
Tel: 808.956.2195
E-mail: jingguo@hawaii.edu
Website: Child and Family Research Lab
- Comparative family policy
- Work, family and Gender
- Migration and child education
- Asian Americans, Immigrants and child welfare
- Social policy and social services in China
Associate Professor, PhD Chair
Gartley Hall Rm. 215
Tel: 956-4605
E-mail: shong9@hawaii.edu
Website: Child and Family Research Lab
- Neighborhood Contexts
- Immigration
- Mental Health
- Community-Based Practice
- Research Methodology
Assistant Professor, MSW Chair
Gartley Hall Rm. 205B
Phone: 808.956.4929
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: fjjc@hawaii.edu
- Organizational and workforce issues in child welfare
- Child welfare outcomes including: permanency; well-being; kinship; and foster care.
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 205A
Phone: 808.956.6127
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: kawaii@hawaii.edu
- Multiracial Microaggressions
- Anti-Racism & Mental Health
- Mental Health Policy and Advocacy
- Multiracial, Black, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Populations
Junior Specialist, PhD and MSW Program Specialist
Gartley Hall Rm. 203B
Tel: 808.956.3831
E-mail: jenkishi@hawaii.edu
Junior Specialist, Assistant to the Dean
Gartley Hall Rm. 204E
Tel: 808.956.6120
E-mail: kreif@hawaii.edu
- Community Development
- Social and Economic Development
- International Social Work – Geographic Region of Micronesia
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 008
Phone: 808.956.6123
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: sophiabk@hawaii.edu
- Socio-Cultural Determinants of Health
- Healthcare Disparities Including in Health Behaviors and Health Service Utilization
- Mental Health Literacy
- Help-Seeking Patterns.
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 214
Phone: 808.956.9614
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: Yeonjung@hawaii.edu
- Health equity
- Social justice/racial justice
- Aging
- Diversity
Junior Specialist, Field Education Coordinator
Gartley Hall Rm. 004C
Phone: 808.956.6139
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: wendyrs@hawaii.edu
- Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Equity and Social Welfare
- International/Global Social Work
Instructor
Gartley Hall Rm. 001B
Phone : 808.956.6237
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: azurelm@hawaii.edu
- Child Welfare
- Field Education/Experiential Learning
- Organizational Culture & Change
- Leadership
- Indigenous Education, Reconciliation & Decolonization
- Substance use prevention among NHPI youth
- Social, behavioral, and cultural determinants of health among NHPI populations
- Indigenous CBPR methodologies that promote the decolonization of social work research
Junior Specialist
Gartley Hall Rm. 001E
Tel :: 808.956.7009
Fax :: 808.956.5964
E-mail :: muneokas@hawaii.edu
Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders at MBTSSW
- Intergenerational wellness
- Aging and later life
- Kānaka maoli population
Instructor
Gartley Hall Rm 001A
Phone: 808.956.6974
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: dnisthal@hawaii.edu
- Child Welfare
- Sexual Assault
- Domestic Violence
- Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
- Community Engagement
- Healthy Masculinity
- Leadership
Professor, Director of Distance Education Program, Department Chair
Gartley Hall Rm. 007
Tel: 808.956.6121
E-mail: rstotzer@hawaii.edu
Website: Child and Family Research Lab
- Hate Crimes
- Violence
- Sexuality and Gender Identity
- Prejudice and Stereotypes
- Oppression and Discrimination
- Intergroup Conflict
Assistant Professor
Gartley Hall Rm. 201E
Phone: 808.956.6244
Fax: 808.956.5964
E-mail: amandaym@hawaii.edu
- Youth Homelessness
- Former Foster Youth
- HIV Risk, Drug Risks
- Sex Risks
- Social Network Analysis
- Advanced Statistical Analysis