Professor & Chair Global Social Work and Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
Martha Schwartz Bragin, PhD, LCSW is jointly appointed Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the Doctoral Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center. She Chairperson of Global Social Work and Practice with Immigrants and Refugees. She joined the faculty after 25 years of experience supporting governments, non-governmental organizations, and United Nations agencies to address the effects of violence and disaster on children, youth, and families both in the US and internationally. A founding member of the IASC Reference Group (UN-NGO) on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, Dr Bragin represents the International Association of Schools of Social Work as part of the UN team and at the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Emergencies. In those capacities she brings a social work perspective to standards on Community led Practice with Children in Emergencies.
Essential to her research was the development of participatory methods to develop locality-based indicators of psychosocial well-being with people affected by violence, 1 for children, the other for adults in family and community context. Both are included in global guidance for best practice in humanitarian emergencies. Her most recent research examined how parents receiving unconditional cash transfer created their own standards to improve the well-being of their children in the aftermath of family violence.
Among her numerous peer reviewed publications and awards for her work are CSWE’s Partners in International Education Award (2020) and IPA’s 2011 & 2021 Hayman Prize for the treatment of traumatized children and adults.
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