Cathy S. Berkman, Associate Professor
BS University of Vermont, MSW Boston University, PhD Yale University
Cathy Berkman is an Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. She received a B.S. from University of Vermont (in social welfare, sociology and anthropology), an MSW from Boston University (community organization and gerontology) and a PhD from Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (psychosocial epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, aging). She was an NIMH Post-doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University School of Public Health, Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program and Research Associate at the Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology. Her research experience includes a wide range of studies with a focus on gerontology, including large epidemiologic community studies, intervention studies in inpatient and outpatient settings, and exploratory studies using mixed methods approaches. Dr. Berkman’s primary interests are in mental and physical health and aging, diverse populations and disparities in health care utilization, help-seeking preferences among elders with psychiatric distress in the context of culture, health beliefs and illness representation, advance directives end-of-life preferences for treatment, and research methods. She is currently collaborating with the NYC Department for Aging on an intervention study to assess whether placing a social worker on-site in senior centers will result in case-finding and effective treatment for seniors who have clinically significant depression, anxiety, or alcohol abuse. Dr. Berkman teaches concentration research courses in the MSW program and research methods and statistics courses in the doctoral program.
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