Lynne Healy is Director of the Center for International Social Work Studies and Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. She has taught courses in international aspects of social work for more than twenty years and led the efforts to establish the Center and the International Issues Substantive Area at the University of Connecticut. Professor Healy is the author of International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World, a comprehensive text on international social work published by Oxford University Press in 2001. Her other books on international social work are: Teaching International Content: Curriculum Resources for Social Work Education (2005, with R. Link); Models of International Collaboration in Social Work Education (2003, with Y. Asamoah and M.C. Hokenstad); Social Work Reality (Caribbean case studies co-authored with Eleanor Wint, 1998); Global Perspectives in Social Work Education: A Collection of Course Outlines on International Aspects of Social Work (with Yvonne Asamoah, 1997); Realities of Global Interdependence: Challenges to Social Work Education (Proceedings, 1996); Introducing International Development Content in Social Work Curriculum (1991). Her articles on international social work have been published in International Social Work; Social Work; Caribbean Journal of Social Work; Journal of Social Work Education; Social Development Issues; Journal of Multicultural Social Work and Regional Development Dialogue.

Professor Healy has been extensively involved in international professional associations. She is currently Secretary of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and served as a Vice-President of the Association from 2002-2004. From 2002-2004 Dr. Healy served as President of the North American and Caribbean Association of Schools of Social Work (NACASSW) and from 1994-2001, was Secretary of NACASSW. She served as Chair of the International Commission of the Council on Social Work Education from 1989-1994 and as a member until 2004. Dr. Healy serves on a number of editorial boards related to international social work: Asia-Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development; Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Services; the Caribbean Journal of Social Work and the Board of Editorial Advisors of the Journal of Social Development in Africa.

At the School of Social Work, Dr. Healy also teaches administration methods courses and social work ethics.

Daniel Melchor
daniel.melchor@uconn.edu

Daniel Melchor is currently an intern at the UCONN School of Social Work Center for International Social Work Studies. He is a second year MSW student with Administration as his major method.

Before moving to the U.S. in 2003, he worked for The Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation as the program coordinator for a micro-credit program for low-income people in Chalco, one of the poorest areas in Mexico City. Prior to this period, Daniel worked as a program facilitator for child development projects based in Chiapas and Oaxaca in Mexico, his native country. He has traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, England, Scotland and Italy.

Daniel received his bachelor’s degree in social work from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He also received a diploma in Administration of Human Resources when he wrote a mini-thesis entitled “Institutional Development of a Non-profit Organization”. His future goals consist of working in a micro-credit, community development or self-sufficiency program and completing a PhD.