Dr. Daniel Jacobson López

Biography

Daniel Jacobson López, an expert in trauma, joined BU School of Social Work as an assistant professor in 2021. He served as visiting faculty at Yale University’s School of Public Health and is recognized as a BU Diversity & Inclusion STAR scholar. In 2024, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Deputy Title IX Coordinator. His research focuses on the experiences of gay Latino Black sexual assault survivors and the services provided for violence against gay Black Latino men and LGBTQ individuals. Jacobson López's work also examines the effects of COVID-19 on people living with HIV/AIDS. He has traveled to Ghana with the Yale School of Nursing to reduce stigma and increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men. Prior to his role at BUSSW, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and a CEED diversity scholar. He was the first Latinx PhD graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and founded the University’s Latinx graduate student group. In 2020, he became the inaugural chair of diversity inclusion for the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association. Jacobson López holds a doctoral certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a certification in business from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business. He has received awards from the Black Men Penn Center and for Hispanic Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his scholarship, he is a certified sexual assault counselor, certified ART therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and an anti-bias facilitator for the Anti-Defamation League. In 2023, he became a member of the national Blue Ribbon Gender-Based Task Force at San Diego State University, making recommendations to combat gender-based violence on university and college campuses.

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