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Lili Windsor
Lili Windsor, PhD, MSW
Case Western University - Professor
Email: Liliane.Windsor@case.edu
Education
PhD, Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
MSW, Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
BS, Education, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas-FUMEC (Brazil)
Research Interests
Health equity, social justice, substance use disorder treatment, criminal legal system, infectious disease, critical consciousness theory, community-based-participatory-research, multiphase optimization strategy
BIO

Liliane Cambraia Windsor is the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Social Work at Case Western University, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Following community based participatory research (CBPR) principles and the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), Dr. Windsor’s research focuses on the application of critical consciousness theory to the development of multi-level interventions designed to promote health equity in the fields of substance use disorders treatment, infectious disease, and the criminal legal system in disinvested and predominantly Black communities. She is the founder and chair of the Critical Consciousness Collaborative (3C, www.the3c.org), a group of researchers, service providers, and consumers who partner with marginalized communities to develop evidence-based health interventions with real world impact. Over the past 15 years, the 3C developed Community Wise, the first evidence-based intervention to reduce substance use in in disinvested Black communities. Born and raised in Brazil, Dr. Windsor received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education from FCH-FUMEC, Brazil in 1998. She moved to Texas in 2000 to pursue her Master of Science and doctoral degrees in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin.

Projects
Principal Investigator, COVID-19 Treatment Cascade Optimization Study. Completed
Principal Investigator, Community Wise: An Innovative Multi-Level Intervention to Reduce Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use. Completed
Publications

Recent

Benoit E, Khan M, McBride L, Watkins DN, Windsor LC, The NJ Critical Consciousness Collaborative Board (2025).
“Without critical consciousness, how could you move on?” Qualitative assessments of an intervention to reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men
Contemporary Drug Problems [Epub 2025 Aug 18]. doi: 10.1177/00914509251366621.

Hayes RE, Jones HA, Benoit E, Watkins DN, Windsor LC (2025).
Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders
American Journal of Community Psychology [Epub 2025 May 19]. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12816.

Pinto RM, Windsor L, Benoit E (2024).
Participation in critical dialogues with illustrative images increases knowledge about COVID-19 prevention: A mixed methods longitudinal approach
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 18 (3), 304-317. doi: 10.1177/15586898241254560.

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. PMCID: PMC11887649.


Notable

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.

Dr. Windsor's Google Scholar Profile
Selected Press