Sheila Brody Kamerman, DSW is a social work educator and researcher at the

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(CUSSW). She is the Compton Foundation Centennial Professor Emerita of Social Work for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems. She is also Co-Director of the Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia University and Co-Director, Cross-National Studies Research Program. Kamerman is a Fellow at the

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. She has been a CUSSW professor since 1979.

Education

Bachelor,

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

, 1946. Master of Social Work,

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, 1966. Doctor in Social Welfare,

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, 1973.

Career

Her teaching focus includes social policy, child and family policy and international social welfare.

Select publications

* (Co-Edited with Alfred J. Kahn) Beyond Child Poverty: The Social Exclusion of Children (New York: Columbia University Institute for Child and Family Policy, 2003) *(Co-Edited with Peter Moss) The Politics of Parental Leave Policies (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2009) *(Co-Edited with Shelley Phipps and Asher Ben Arieh) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being (Springer, 2009) * Gatenio Gabel, Shirley & Kamerman, Sheila. (2013). Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs): A Child Policy Strategy in Asia. *

Honors and awards

* The International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI)ISCI Award in Honor of Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman
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References

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