DIRECTORY LISTING
Biography
Justine McGovern is the Chair of the Department of Health Promotion and Nutrition Sciences and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work. Justine’s long-term commitment has been to improving older adult health and social wellbeing in the global context. Her funded research focuses on meeting emergent needs of changing demographics worldwide, with an emphasis on increasing health equity for older adults in the urban environment, diversifying the gerontology workforce, translating international gerontology best practices for local settings, and integrating arts-based methods into research, teaching and practice. Justine has published and presented internationally on living with dementia, LGBTQ aging, behavioral health and the life course, visual research methods, high-impact pedagogies, gerontology practice, international and interdisciplinary collaboration, and more. She teaches across the social work generalist practice curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level, and in Lehman’s School of Education doctoral program in Organizational Leadership. In addition, she is a licensed social work practitioner. Her practice experience includes dementia care, community-based mental health, intergenerational programming, parental care consulting, and child welfare. She received her PhD and MSW from New York University's Silver School of Social Work, and her BA in American Studies from Yale University.