Biography

Rosalie Schofield previously served as the BSW and MSW program director in the School of Social Work at Temple University. She has worked as a policy analyst at Medicaid, the Families USA Foundation, Blue Cross, and the Social Security Administration and is co-founder of several community institutions including a foundation, a home for women with HIV/AIDS, and an intergenerational housing project. Former editor of the American Public Health Association newsletter on complementary and alternative health, she was also a faculty fellow of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She was a site visitor for the Council on Social Work Education and taught courses in social innovation and social entrepreneurship, social policy, health/mental health policy, and children and family policy.

Education

• PhD, Aging and Health Policy, Brandeis University
• MSW, Community Organization and Social Planning, Temple University
• BA, Religious Thought, University of Pennsylvania