Diana Lee Guida Brown was a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) from 1959, just four years after the association started, until 2022. Her daughters Rev. Marisa Anne Brown Ludwig and Gian Arthur Brown wanted to share her obituary with NASW...
Throughout a career in social work at New York area hospitals, Diana Guida Brown gave passionate voice to the needs and dignity of hospital patients
Celebrate Human Rights Background: On December 10 the world will celebrate Human Rights Day. Every year, Human Rights Day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. This year the day...
December 1, 2011 NASW is delighted to have had the honor of hosting our distinguished guests from Tanzania for the past two weeks. NASW’s Human Rights & International Affairs Division established a twinning partnership between NASW and the Tanzania Association of...
World AIDS Day is a global health day that is observed on December 1st, calling on social workers globally to unite in support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. HIV/AIDS is a public health pandemic that must be addressed by social...
It seems that every few months another painful chapter in our nation’s history is unearthed by the national media. A recent MSNBC report on involuntary sterilization in North Carolina by medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman was a sobering reminder for American...
The Gender Forum recommendations were released in November 2011, and provide recommendations that are in alignment with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) goals of reducing new HIV infections, increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for people...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), Forum on Global Violence Prevention, will convene a 2-day workshop to explore gaps in the four areas of knowledge management (knowledge generation, integration, dissemination, and application) and how closing these gaps might...