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Alexis Jemal, JD, LCSW, PhD
Hunter Silberman School of Social Work - Assistant Professor
Education
PhD, Social Work, Rutgers University
JD, Law, Rutgers School of Law
MSW, Social Work, Rutgers School of Social Work
BA, Sociology, International Studies, and Criminology, Rutgers University
Research Interests
Multi-level health interventions, Social justice, Participatory action research, Critical consciousness, Drugs, Violence, Trauma, Mass incarceration, HIV/HCV/STIs
BIO
Alexis Jemal, Assistant Professor at Silberman School of Social Work, integrates participatory action research methods, critical theory and the creative arts to develop multi-level and multi-systemic socio-health interventions that incorporate restorative justice frameworks, radical healing and liberation health models to address toxic stress, trauma and symptoms (e.g., substance use, HIV/HCV risk) of structural, community and interpersonal violence.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Adapting an Evidence-Based HIV/STI Risk Reduction Intervention to Address Oppressive Sexual Scripts Among Heterosexual African American Males and Females. Completed
Principal Investigator, Formative Research for Critical Consciousness Intervention Development. Completed
Publications

Recent

Jemal A (2024).
Critical clinical social work practice: Pathways to healing from the molecular to the macro
Clinical Social Work Journal, 52, 229-244. doi: 10.1007/s10615-022-00843-1.

Windsor LC, Benoit E, Lee C, Jemal A, Kugler K, Smith DC, Pinto RM, Musaad S (2024).
Critical dialogue and capacity-building projects reduced alcohol and substance use in a randomized clinical trial among formerly incarcerated men
Substance Use and Misuse, 59 (11), 1574-1585. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2352611. PMCID: PMC11285053.

Jemal AD, Benoit E, Thompson S, Jones HA, Windsor L, Lassiter T, Thompson W, The NJ Critical Consciousness Collaborative Board (3CB) (2024).
The NCCB case example: Reflections on a successful fourteen-year CBPR partnership
Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 5 (2). doi: 10.35844/001c.120896.

Jemal A, Windsor L, Inyang C, Pierre-Noel C (2022).
The critical dialogue cornerstone: Suggested practices to guide implementation, facilitation and evaluation
Journal of Progressive Human Services, 33 (3), 244-270. doi: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2056866. PMCID: PMC9426411.

Jemal A, Caliste S (2022).
Work-in-progress: Focus groups evaluate and inform revisions of a socio-behavioral health intervention
Evaluation and Program Planning, 93, 102079. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102079. PMCID: PMC10148963.

Dr. Jemal's Research Gate Profile