Susan Rose

Dr. Rose is a Professor of Social Work and Research Scientist affiliated with the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Research at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, where she has been since 1992. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989. Her current research interests include development of interventions with substance abusing women who are incarcerated. She is the Principal Investigator of a current project assessing the mental health needs of incarcerated women. A recent project, Keeping Families Together, explored innovations in screening, brief intervention, and follow-up for substance abusing incarcerated mothers and pregnant women in Milwaukee County. She was also the Co-Principal Investigator of the Women in Jails project that tested an intervention directed at incarcerated women to motivate them to seek substance abuse treatment after their release. Her teaching responsibilities are in the areas of mental health and child welfare. She currently co-directs the Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program, developing specific curriculum to train MSW level child welfare workers. In the past 20 years, she has conducted numerous research studies at the intersection of child welfare, substance use, and incarcerated women and has published over 35 manuscripts, book chapters, and monographs in professional journals on these subjects. Dr. Rose currently chairs the school’s International Study Committee (developing programs in comparative public policy in England, Austria, and South Africa), and served as Alderman in Elmhurst, Illinois for 20 years from 1991 – 2011.