Lynne M. Healy-Main UN Representative for IASSW

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Name: Lynne M. Healy

Email: lynne.healy@uconn.edu

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: Chair, Human Rights Committee

NGO Committee for Social Development and Subcommittee for Poverty Eradication, UN             New York, representative for IASSW team

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Katherine Kendall Advisory Committee, CSWE

Serve on Editorial Boards for a number of journals (Caribbean Journal of Social Work; Ethics and Social Welfare; Administration in Social Work; Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, International Journal of Social Welfare; and Advisory board of the Journal of Social Work and Social Development in Africa)

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW): Council on Social Work Education (U.S.)

National Association of Social Workers (U.S.)

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees): Ph. D. Social Work and Social Policy, Rutgers University

MSW, University of Connecticut, B.A., Asian Studies, Brown University

Languages written and spoken: English, French (not fluent)

Interest Areas: Human rights, International Social Work, Social Work Education, International Development, Social Work Ethics

Current Activities: Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Teach Social Work Administration; International Social Work; International Development Theory and Practice; and Social Policy, and advise students in the MSW and PhD programs. For 21 years, served as Director of our school’s Center for International Social Work Studies. Recent publications include a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Education on Globalization and Social Work Education (with S. Gatenio-Gabel), the Handbook of International Social Work: Human Rights, Development and the Global Profession (with R. Link, Oxford University Press, 2012); and a forthcoming manual of resources on Teaching Human Rights (with M.C. Hokenstad and U. Segal, CSWE). Currently working on historical research on international professional organizations in the apartheid era and a book on Human rights and Social Work Education.