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Suzanne Michael, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
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Suzanne Michael, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Dr. Suzanne Michael developed the proposal for Vital Signs in 2003 and serves as its faculty director. Dr. Michael brings extensive academic, social work, government, and community service experience to this ambitious project. Appointed to the faculty of Adelphi University School of Social Work in 2002, she teaches courses in social welfare history and policy, organizational context for social work practice, diversity and oppression, immigrants and refugees, and advises master and doctoral students.
Dr. Michael's began her professional career in 1976 as a clinical and supervisory social worker at Kings County Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. In 1984, she became a policy analyst and program developer for the New York Department of Health where she coordinated the City's Pediatric HIV/AID School Review Panel, and developed and implemented a school-based crisis intervention program with the City Board of Education.
From 1992-2002, Dr. Michael worked at the Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy where she developed and directed grant-funded community service projects including the Hunter College Community Interpreter Project which trained bilingual students to serve as medical interpreters in the New York City public hospital and child health systems. Dr Michael also taught in both the School of Arts and Sciences and Program in Public Health and participated in curriculum development.
In 1998, Dr. Michael established the New York program of the Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program, a year-long mentoring and community service program for students in the health, legal, and social service professions, which she directed until 2001.
Dr. Michael's current research focuses on the use of social health indicators in regional planning, immigration and child welfare, transnational households and immigration during the life cycle. Dr. Michael is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Immigrant Health. She has consulted, lectured and written on immigrant health issues. She was a founding member of the Center of Immigrant Health in New York City and continues to serve on its executive advisory committee. She also is a co-founder of the Caucus of Refugee and Immigrant Health of the American Public Health Organization.
Dr. Michael received her B.A. in anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, a M.S. in social work from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City of New York.
Sarah Eichberg, Ph.D.
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Sarah Eichberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Sarah Eichberg is the project director for Vital Signs. A sociologist with a background in gender studies and public health, Dr. Eichberg brings experience in academic research, policy and evaluation and community outreach.
From 2000-2003, Dr. Eichberg was a postgraduate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics studying competing constructions of the genetically modified food debate. As part of an interdisciplinary team, she helped facilitate stakeholder dialogues on genetic engineering and drafted codes of ethics for businesses and other private organizations in the biotechnology field.
While in graduate school, Dr. Eichberg was awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science Media Fellowship and worked as a health and science and metro reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Dr. Eichberg's dissertation examined the motivations and surgical outcomes for male and female facial aesthetic surgery patients and traced surgeons' and psychiatrists' changing definitions of beauty, identity and mental health over the course of the 20th century.
Dr. Eichberg has extensive teaching and curriculum development experience. In addition to teaching undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Eichberg was a Princeton in Asia Fellow, teaching English and American Studies at the Dalian University of Technology in the People's Republic of China from 1989-1990.
Dr. Eichberg has consulted for several public and private organizations including the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, The MYA Green Trading Group and British television in the areas of research methodology, environmental practice and policy and gender relations.
Dr. Eichberg has a B.A. from Smith College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:
e - vitalsigns@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on June 20, 2008.
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