Ph.D. Candidate
The University of Alabama, School of Social Work
Erick da Luz Scherf, MSW, is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Work at the University of Alabama. He holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of Stavanger in Norway and a Bachelor of International Relations from the University of Vale do Itajai in Brazil. Erick is also a member of the Initiative on Forced Migration at Washington University in St. Louis, and his current research focuses on the intersection between immigration and health disparities; he is particularly interested in understanding the intersecting inequities experienced by Latinx and Brazilian immigrants in the United States related to labor migration and occupational trajectories. Recently, he has been selected to be part of the CSWE Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship (2025-26).
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