Patricia Lee King, Ph.D. Social Work 2011
“My dad earned his MSW from HBSSW when I was an infant. His work in the years that followed influenced me a lot. I wanted to affect the social problems that matter most to me and the community.”
University of Southern California School of Social Work Postdoctoral Student
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ith an undergraduate in mathematics from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago, HBSSW’s first doctoral graduate could have pursued further studies at any number of schools. Yet Patricia Lee King chose HBSSW because here, she believed, academic rigor met community relevance. During her research assistantship with the school’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Research, she was oriented to community-based research and learned the crucial role that collaboration plays in making such endeavors successful. Lee King currently is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, where her research interests include maternal depression, service integration, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. 18