Margaret Lombe

Associate Professor and BRIDGE Program Co-Director

Specialties

• International Socioeconomic Development (capacity building)

• Poverty, Social Exclusion/Inclusion

• Global Health

• Food Security and Low-Resource Households

• HIV/AIDS and Youth

• Rights-Based Approaches

• Cross-Cultural Research

• Evaluation Research

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areas of expertise:
Health and Public Health| Social Policy and Poverty|
department: Macro Practice
email: lombem@bu.edu
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An expert in social work and global health equity, Dr. Lombe is part of the macro practice department at BUSSW and, in addition to her professorship, is faculty director for the BRIDGE Program, BUSSW’s innovative pre-MSW program for immigrants and refugees designed to promote access and equity in graduate social work education. Her research focuses on advancing the wellbeing of marginalized communities, seeking to impact upstream interventions or system-level changes by paying close attention to social and economic justice, empowerment, and participatory democracy.

Dr. Lombe’s work also addresses a number of important social issues domestically and globally including research on the stigmatization of people suffering from HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, and housing adversity in Boston and in African countries. Her contributions to the social welfare field include contesting traditional social welfare paradigms which employ deficit-based interventions. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Lombe has been appointed by the United Nations to serve as an advisor and member of Expert Group meetings and is a mayoral appointee to the Ryan White Planning Council for the Boston Public Health Commission.

News & Media

Prof. Lombe & Colleagues Lead BU CTSI Knowledge-Sharing Event on How to Diversify the Research Workforce

Prof. Lombe & Colleagues Lead BU CTSI Knowledge-Sharing Event on How to Diversify the Research Workforce

Prof. Lombe Awarded Funding to Join 2024 Intensive HERS Leadership Institute

The Brink: Prof. Lombe’s Work to Reduce the Impact of War & Displacement on Women Refugees Is Featured

9/21: CTSI Community Engagement Speaker Series Features BUSSW Community

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Education

BA (Communications)

Daystar University

MSW (Social Work)

Washington University

PhD (Social Work)

Washington University

Awards and Honors

2013, 2015: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Social Work Scholarship, Boston College
2008, 2009: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Social Work Scholarship, Boston College
2000-2002: Social Development Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1999-2000: P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1998-2000: Dr. Sun Yet Sen Scholarship, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1995: Dean’s Award for Academic Excellency, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya
1994-1995: P.E.O. International Scholarship, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya

Awards and Honors

2013, 2015: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Social Work Scholarship, Boston College
2008, 2009: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Social Work Scholarship, Boston College
2000-2002: Social Development Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1999-2000: P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1998-2000: Dr. Sun Yet Sen Scholarship, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
1995: Dean’s Award for Academic Excellency, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya
1994-1995: P.E.O. International Scholarship, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya
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