Thursday, March 13, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30pm MDT
The CSU School of Social Work is pleased to host the biennial Brad Sheafor Lecture in Social Work featuring Tyrone Christopher Hamler, assistant professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.
Thursday, March 13, 20254:30 p.m.Lory Student Center Ballroom DA reception with appetizers and a cash bar will follow the lecture.
Hamler's research is focused on health inequities, chronic illness, aging, and the intersection of mental and physical health. His work also focuses on health equity in kidney disease for older African Americans, who experience double jeopardy by way of being older and being members of an historically excluded group.
Hamler’s research is informed by years of direct practice social work experience in multiple health care settings and motivated by the pursuit of health equity. He is a first-generation college graduate who endeavors to mentor students from similar backgrounds.
His research seeks to advance health equity from a practice and a policy perspective. His teaching promotes diversity by challenging long standing methods of direct social work practice and engaging in dialogue about how to partner with individuals and families to implement more conscientious methods of direct practice based on reflective and anti-oppressive social work practice.
Hamler holds a B.A., Social Work and MSW, Health and Aging from the University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve University.