Richard Barth, MD

Doctoral Program Chair

University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

School of Social Work, Room 524

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Richard P. Barth, BA, MSW, PHD is Dean, School of Social Work, University of Maryland. He has also served as a chaired professor at UC Berkeley and University of North Caorlina. He has authored many books, chapters, and articles.

He was the 1986 winner of the Frank Breul Prize for Excellence in Child Welfare Scholarship from the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar in 1990 and 2006, the 1998 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research from the National Association of Social Workers, the 2005 winner of the Flynn Prize for Research, and the 2007 winner of the Peter Forsythe Award from the American Public Human Services Association.

He has directed more than 40 studies and, most recently, served as Co-Principal Investigator of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, the first national study of child welfare services in the US.  He has served as a lecturer and consultant to the Swedish Board of Health and Social Services; the U.S. Children’s Bureau; the states of California, Washington, North Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota; and many universities. He has testified before Congressional and state government sub-committees about processes and outcomes of child welfare services.

He has served on many editorial boards including Social Work, Research on Social Work Practice, Adoption Quarterly, Social Service Review, Social Work in Education, and the International Journal of Social Welfare. He served on the Board of the Society for Social Work Research from 2002-2006. He has also served on the boards of numerous child serving agencies.