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Social Work Fellowship Spring Conference

  • When
  • March 26, 2009
    5:00 a.m. until
    March 27, 2009
    5:00 p.m. (EDT)
  • Where
  • Open Society Foundations–New York
    224 West 57th Street
    New York, NY 10019
    United States of America

At the annual conference for the Social Work Master's Program, grantees from host universities Columbia and Washington-St.Louis participated in workshop-style events.

Presentations

  • Making Human Rights Count: The Convention on the Rights of the Disabled: Paul Martin, Columbia University Founding Executive Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights
  • Needs Assessment for Injecting Drug Users in Kazakhstan: Sholpan Primbetova and Irina Buchinskaya (CUSSW ’09)
  • Adapting an Evidence-Based HIV/STD Risk-Reduction Intervention for Women in Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Ekaterina Lukicheva (GWB ’09) & Elmira Imambakieva (CUSSW ’09)
  • Rural Development: Pastureland Use in Mongolia: Baljmaa Baatar (GWB ’09) & Nyamgerel Oyunbat (FDP)
  • Cash Crop and Well-Being: Khuvaydo Shoinbekov (GWB ’09)
  • Transatlantic Values as Geopolitics? The Growing Challenges to Western Engagement with Central Asia and the Caucasus: Alex Cooley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, and Open Society Institute Fellow
  • Support for Young People Leaving Institutional Care: Sevinj Asgarova (GWB’09)
  • Early Developmental Screening of Children in Azerbaijan: Turana Aliyeva (GWB’09)

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