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Lynne Healy, PhD

Emerita Professor
University of Connecticut
Bloomfield, CT, United States

Lynne M. Healy, Ph.D., MSW, is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut School of Social Work. She taught at the University of Connecticut for more than thirty years and was also a visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies and visiting lecturer at the University of Mauritius. Currently, Dr. Healy is Main Representative to the United Nations for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and a member of the NGO Committee for Social Development. Her many past voluntary roles include service as Secretary and Vice President of the IASSW, Chair of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) International Commission and member of the CSWE Board, and roles within the U.S. National Association of Social Workers (NASW). She has published extensively on international social work, human service agency leadership and management, ethics, and human rights. Her most recent book is International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World (with Rebecca Thomas, Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr. Healy is a member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Social Work Online, and several journal boards. She received the 2014 Katherine Kendall award for contributions to international social work and the Partners in International Education Individual award from CSWE in 2004. In 2017, she was named a Social Work Pioneer by NASW.

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