Curriculum Vitae Date: 10/11/2011 Subharati Ghosh CONTACT INFORMATION Post-Doctoral Fellow Lurie Institute of Disability Policy Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Waltham, MA E-mail: subharati@gmail.com Ph: 413-687-2026 EDUCATION 2011 - Present Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management,, Waltham, MA 2010-2011 Research Associate, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 2004-2010 Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertation: Caregiver adaptation to multiple caregiving roles: as a spouse and a parent Committee Members: Jan S. Greenberg, Marsha M. Seltzer, Nadine Marks, Sandy Magaña, Daniel Bolt, Jinkuk Hong 2002-2004 Master of Arts in Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai- India; Concentration: Medical and Psychiatric Social Work 1999 2002 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, India; Graduated with Honors ACADEMIC & RESEARCH INTERESTS Family processes in caregiving; severe mental illness; aging and disability; theory of human development; research methods; culture and international social work PUBLICATIONS: Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J. (2009). Aging fathers as caregivers to an adult son or daughter with schizophrenia: implications for practice, Psychiatric Services, 60 (7), 982-984 Ghosh, S. & Magaña, S. (2009). A Rich Mosaic: Emerging Research on Asian Families of Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 37, 179-212 Magaña, S. & Ghosh, S. (2010) Latina mothers caring for a son or daughter with autism or schizophrenia: Similarities, differences and the relationship between co-residency and maternal well-being, Journal of Family Social Work, 13, 227-250 Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J. Gender difference in caregiving experience and the importance of social participation and marital satisfaction among aging mothers and fathers of adults with schizophrenia (accepted for publication) Social Work in Mental Health 1
MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION Ghosh, S., Greenberg, J., & Seltzer, M.M. Adaptation to spousal disability in the context of parenting a child with severe mental illness or developmental disabilities, Psychiatric Services Ha, J. & Ghosh, S., Longitudinal Effects of Having a Child with Developmental or Mental Health Problems on Parental Health: Moderating Effects of Health Risk Behaviors in Midlife, The Gerontologist Ghosh, S. & Jordan, N., Future plans and retirement attitudes among parents caring for a child with severe mental illness BOOK CHAPTER Magaña, S. & Ghosh, S., (in progress) Chapter on aging adults with developmental disabilities and severe mental illnesses, in the Handbook of Minority Aging, Editors-in-Chief Keith Whitfield and Tamara Baker REVIEWER: Psychiatric Services INVITED REVIEWER: American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities RESEARCH SKILLS Substantial experience with SPSS Familiar with STATA and LISREL Experience in working with large data sets Skilled in data analysis and interpretation Familiar with IRB procedures HIPAA Certification completed PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J (2011). Caregiving Over the Life Course: The Experience of Multiple Caregivers. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Tampa, FL. (January) Ghosh, S. (2010). Parenting a child with chronic mental illness- Life course impacts on financial and occupational wellbeing and life aspirations. Poster presented at the The Gerontological Society of America s 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA (November) Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J (2010). Caregiver across the life course. Paper presented at the XII International Conference on Social Stress Research. Portsmouth, New Hampshire (November) Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J., (2009). The Role of Marital Satisfaction in Predicting Positive Mental Health among Caregiving Couples with a Son or a Daughter with Schizophrenia. Presented at The Gerontological Society of America's 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. (November) Ghosh, S., & Greenberg, J., (2009). Caregiver s adaptation to multiple caregiving roles- as a spouse and a parent. Poster presented at AAPR s Diversity and Aging in the 21 st Century: The Power of Inclusion Conference, Chicago, IL. (June) 2
Ghosh, S., Greenberg, J., & Seltzer, M. M., (2009), Aging Parents with Dual Caregiving Responsibilities: Caring for an Adult Child and Spouse with Disabilities. Presented at the Annual Conference of Society for Social Work and Research, New Orleans, LA. (January) Ghosh, S., Greenberg, J., & Seltzer, M. M., (2008), Aging Fathers as Caregivers to an adult son or daughter with schizophrenia: implications for practice. Presented at the Annual Conference of Society for Social Work and Research, Washington D.C. (January) Greenberg, J., Essex, E., Seltzer, M. M. & Ghosh, S., (2007), Fathers of children with special needs: The case of developmental disabilities and mental illness. Paper presented for Male Caregiving : Creating a Research Programmatic and Policy Agenda for an emerging Public Health Issue. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (September) PAPER ACCEPTED FOR PRESENTATION, BUT WITHDRAWN Ghosh, S. (2009) Parenting a child with chronic mental illness- Life course impacts on financial and occupational wellbeing and life aspirations. Paper accepted for presentation at the 6 th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health. Dublin, Ireland, June (2010) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Post-doctoral Fellow, Lurie Institute for Disability Research, (September, 2012 present); Mentor: Dr. Susan Parish Assess the extent of SSI receipt among children with developmental disabilities and the extent of income and asset poverty and material hardship among children who do and do not receive SSI, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation Currently writing a grant to be submitted to The Academic Pediatric Association, Young Investigator Program in collaboration with Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, to assess the extent of burden experienced by families caring for children with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome Data Analyst, The College Health Interventions Project (CHIP) data (January, 2011 April, 2011); PI: Dr. Michael Fleming Data Analysis Constructed data sets Research Consultant, College Curriculum Focus, Needs Assessment of Casa Nursing Home, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Chicago, IL (January, 2011-May, 2011) Helped develop questionnaires for needs assessment of nursing home residents Conducted a training session on how to administer survey questionnaire Helped with analysis of data Project Assistant, Social & Affective Sciences, Life Span Family Research Program, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2005-2009) Life Course Impacts of Non-normative Parenting - Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS); PI: Dr. Marsha M. Seltzer & Dr. Jan S. Greenberg Identified families in the WLS who have children with developmental disabilities or severe mental health problems and created a coding system to ease identification of cases Set up the preliminary master data set of all non-normative cases for several analytic purposes Constructed a data set of respondents who specifically have a son or a daughter with schizophrenia and developed SPSS codes to identify missing data in that sample 3
Actively engaged in setting up the master data set that would help identify cases for the next round of data collection for the WLS non-normative parenting sample Graduate Assistant, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison (July 2009-May 2010) Comprehensive Community Services (CCS); PI: Dr. Jan Greenberg & Dr. Colleen Mahoney Helped to set up and clean the data for probable data entry errors Created SPSS syntax to construct scales for analysis and checked the reliability of scales Conducted preliminary descriptive analysis to evaluate outcomes of patients with schizophrenia in five counties of Wisconsin, served by the CCS program Helped develop a preliminary report to the county mental health services served by the CCS program Graduate Assistant, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison (September 2009 January 2010) Education Innovation Project; PI: Dr. Mary Roach Analyzed data collected from medical residents to assess their self-evaluation of performance Helped prepare summary reports and presentations Voluntary research work, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison (August 2006 December 2006); National Alliance on Mental Illness- Planning for the future; Supervisor: Dr. Jan S Greenberg Helped to set up a data set with data collected from a workshop designed to help families plan for the future of their sons or daughters with schizophrenia Masters project: Medical and Psychiatric Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, Self & Disability - an Existential Approach (July 2002 November 2002); Supervisor: Mr. P. Mondal Conducted interviews of people with physical disability Used concepts from Existentialism to analyze data and submitted a group report Undergraduate dissertation, Department of Psychology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, Delhi, India Personality and Adjustment of College Students (August 2001 - May 2002); Advisor: Dr Priti Dhawan Administered Eysenck s Personality Test and Bell s Adjustment Inventory to 180 college students Collected and analyzed the data and submitted a 120 page dissertation TEACHING EXPERIENCE Guest Lecturer, (Pre-Medical Students), Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northwestern University Conducted a one hour session on How to conduct In-Person Interviews for Surveys Teaching Assistant, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison Course Title: Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, Social Work 453, Undergraduate course, Spring 2010 Graded papers of 225 students Coordinated class activities Teaching Assistant, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Course Title: Perspectives in Multidisciplinary Clinical & Translational Research, Family Medicine, 701, Graduate course, Fall 2009 Graded weekly papers for 28 graduate and professional students Coordinate class activities Developed questions for weekly assignments 4
Teaching Assistant, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison Course Title: Human Behavior and Environment, Undergraduate course, Spring 2005 Lectured a three hour session on Vygotsky & Piaget s cognitive developmental theories Led 4 weekly discussion sections throughout the semester Graded weekly assignments of more than 100 students Guest Speaker, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2005 Course Title: Field Practice and Integrative Seminar on Mental Health Led a discussion on mental health services, policy and family caregiving experiences in India Teaching Assistant, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison Course Title: Social Work with Ethnic and Racial groups, Undergraduate course, Fall 2004 Led discussion sessions throughout the semester Graded weekly assignments of more than 50 students CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Developed a graduate level research methods course titled - Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods (August 2008 - May 2009) Supervisor: Dr. Sandy Magaña SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Volunteer at NAMI UW, Madison, and represented NAMI UW-Madison at the NAMI 25th Conference, (March 2006), Madison, WI, February-December 2006 Treasurer with Child Relief and You, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September 2004-March 2006 Summer intern at The Richmond Fellowship Society (Halfway Home), Bangalore, India, April 2004- May 2004 Student Psychiatric Social Worker, The Samaritans (Rehabilitation Center for people with chronic mental illness), Mumbai, India, July 2003-March 2004 Intern, Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Ward, New Delhi, India, July 2001-April 2002 Volunteer with National Service Scheme, Child Relief and You, New Delhi, India, August 1999-March 2000 COMMITTEES SERVED Member of the Steering Committee of South Asian Public Health Association, Chicago, November, 2010 Member of Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Emerging Scholar & Professional Organization s International Task Force on Global Aging, February, 2010 International Committee, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 2009- May 2010 Abstract reviewer for 65 th Annual Conference of the Gerontological Society of America, 2011-2012 5
HONORS AND AWARDS March, 2010 RAND Summer Research Institute on Aging scholarship February, 2010 December 2009 December 2008 August 2004 August 2004 August 2004 Doctoral Student Research Paper Award, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison Vilas Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison Vilas Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison Scholarship received from Lady Meherbai D. Tata Education Trust, Mumbai, India Scholarship received from Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust, Mumbai, India Scholarship received from Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai, India May 2002 CERTIFICATES Certificate of Merit from Lady Shri Ram College for Exemplary Understanding of Psychological Issues and Disciplined Work, India Certified Mental Health First aid provider, November 2010 November 2013 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Regularly attend webinars hosted by The Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research (CMMHR) at the Cambridge Health Alliance and New Connections Attended sessions on how to write a career development grant at the 2011 Clinical and Translational Research and Education Meeting ACRT/SCTS/AFMR Joint Annual Meeting, Washington DC PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP National Alliance on Mental Illness (University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter) Society for Social Work and Research Gerontological Society of America South Asian Public Health Association 6