Rosie Love

PhD Student/CEMHD Fellow

University at Albany

 

Rosie Love is a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Welfare interested in how health policy enables and mitigates inequalities. Her academic goals are to explore strategies to bring together health equity, and micro-level and macro-level social work practices and principles within the health policy-setting environment. Her professional accomplishments include work with the NYS Department of Health, AIDS Institute for 13 years. In 2017, she initiated and led conversations with executive leadership to advocate for greater attention to priority populations, including Black/African American, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities. She aided in advocating for the integration of comprehensive health equity principles into every aspect of organizational work. In this area, she also aided in her groups’ success with developing research and best practices in addressing health inequalities and assessing staff knowledge and workplace readiness to advance health equity.