![Mimi Chapman, Professor, Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, and Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor for Human Service Policy Information, stands and smiles beside Alexandria Forte, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in a conference room at the UNC School of Social Work](https://ssw.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/509/2024/02/24-0001-COMM-Gade-President-Mimi-Chapman-1-800x400.jpg)
Associate Dean for Doctoral Education Mimi Chapman will make history in July when she begins a two-year term as the president for the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE).
Although Interim Director of Practicum Education Amy Levine first worked with SaySo North Carolina as a social worker for public child welfare in Orange County, it was when she began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work that the relationship truly began to blossom.
Four SSW professors shared a presentation and led a discussion regarding how health research supported by the NIH is influenced by who reviews proposals and ways to diversify the funding processes and efforts to involve social workers and community members with lived experiences in NIH study sections and panels.