Rebecca Matthew
Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare
- MSW University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare
- MPH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health
- BA University of South Florida, psychology
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Contact
279 Williams Street, Room 350 Athens, GA 30602 - Email: ramatthew@uga.edu
- Phone: (706) 542-5445
Rebecca Matthew’s research and scholarship are in the area of community health and well-being. She has interdisciplinary graduate training in public health and social welfare, with specific expertise in community-based participatory research; mixed-methods survey research; and program evaluation. Her research focuses on the identification and evaluation of innovative community-based models of human service delivery, to include: worker-owned cooperatives among Latinas, legal and social services for undocumented (Latino) youth, and the community health worker (CHW)/promotores model in Latino communities. She also currently serves as a principal investigator and co-investigator for two local projects focused on community health and well-being.
Teaching Specialties
Community assessment, community organizing, community practice, service learning
Research Interests
Communty-based participatory research, cooperatives and the social economy, care work and labor justice, community and social development , poverty and society inequality