Artificial Intelligence in Social Work: Bridging Technology and Humanity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032184429)

Ruopeng An, PhD, MPP, is a leading expert in obesity epidemiology and policy evaluation, a noted interdisciplinary data scientist, and an internationally recognized scholar in applying artificial intelligence to address public health disparities and social inequities. He currently holds the Constance and Martin Silver Endowed Professorship in Data Science and Prevention and serves as the Director of the Constance and Martin Silver Center on Data Science and Social Equity at NYU Silver School of Social Work. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE journal Translational Data Science for Social Impact and is also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior and the American College of Epidemiology. Recognized as one of Elsevier's top 2% most cited scientists, his work has been featured by major media outlets such as TIME, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Reuters, USA Today, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Guardian, FOX, NPR, and CNN. He is the author of the forthcoming book Building an AI-Ready University: A Holistic Strategy for Higher Education Leaders, to be published by Routledge. He serves on research grant review and expert panels for the NIH, CDC, NSF, HHS, USDA, and the French National Research Agency. Before joining NYU, he was the Faculty Lead in Public Health Sciences and Faculty Fellow for AI Innovations in Education at Washington University in St. Louis, where he founded two certificate programs in artificial intelligence and data science. He holds a PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, a Master of Public Policy from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Peking University.

Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, is a noted scholar in child and adolescent mental health and a leader in the search for knowledge and solutions to generational poverty and inequality. He is the Dean and Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. Additionally, he led the working group of experts supporting the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, which created the report Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America. He is the President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice in Social Work. He was also appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Community Preventive Services Task Force. In 2023, he was appointed to the New York City Board of Health. Before being named NYU Silver's Dean, he was the Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies and Executive Director of the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research. His current research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has been ranked among the top 2% of most-cited scientists by Elsevier. The political news outlet City & State New York has recognized him as a 2025 Trailblazer in Higher Education and on their 2024 Health Care Power 100 list, the 2022 and 2023 Higher Education Power 100 lists, and the 2021 Mental Health Power 50 list. Additionally, PoliticsNY/amNY named him both a 2025 Power Player in Health Care and a 2025 Power Player in Education. He is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He holds a PhD in social work and an MPH from the University of Pittsburgh, an MSW from Howard University, and a BA in sociology from Morehouse College. He also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.