The Brown School offers several opportunities for students to affect social change worldwide. In particular, we've partnered with leading international universities to create symposiums where students and professionals of social work and public health come together to share their perspectives on creating change through research, policy, and action.
The Brown School has partnered with the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Fudan University to conduct an intensive summer training program for junior faculty, graduates of universities of social work, senior administrators from government departments and NGO leaders in China. The courses will include policy analysis methods for social work, evidence-based policy, design and evaluation methods of social programs, and topics on social policy in China.
- 2011: At the Frontier of Social Policy and Social Work - Young Leaders Training (Fudan)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Peking University in Beijing and the Brown School have hosted summer institutes where students learned about critical social policy issues, including:
- 2010: Rural-Urban Dynamics of Social Development (Beijing)
- 2008: Mental Health in China and U.S.: Trends, Consequences and Interventions (Hong Kong and Xi'an)
- 2007: Social Development - Poverty and Social Inclusion (Hong Kong and Kunming)
- 2006: Aging in China (Hong Kong and Beijing) Read more about the first China Institute.
“The institute is more than just a partnership,” says Director of International Programs Gautam N. Yadama. “It is a way to build a learning community among the three schools where joint research and teaching opportunities can be identified.”
The Brown School and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) hosts an annual institute in India. The India Institute's thematic areas include:
The Institute in India provides graduate students with grounding in a thematic area connecting human development, marginality, and social change in India. Attendees will gain meaningful field practice experience intent on highlighting the complexities of pursuing social change to realize human development in India. Students will also consider and develop innovative approaches to social development and social work informed comparative analysis.
The Brown School and the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile began a new partnership and hosted its first annual winter institute in January 2011. In addition to classroom instruction by Brown School and La Católica faculty, the program included field work in community health centers and social services agencies in Santiago.