Dr.Vijayan K Pillai,
Professor, School of Social Work
University of Texas at Arlington
Vijayan K Pillai, Ph.D., is professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH) and also a Fellow of the American Academy of Epidemiology (FACE). He started his teaching career as a faculty member of the Dept. of Social Development at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Arlington, he was a faculty member in the Dept. of Sociology and Social Work at the University of North Texas, Denton. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, MSW from Indore School of Social Work, Indore, and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning from the School of Planning, CEPT University, and Ahmadabad, India. He is a demographer with research interests in adolescent fertility, women’s health and welfare issues, HIV/AIDS in Africa, women’s reproductive health in developing countries, and gender issues. He has written extensively on topics such as the determinants of adolescent fertility in Zambia, welfare and teenage norms in the United States, and the relationship between women’s rights and reproductive health at a cross-national level in developing countries. He is currently engaged in investigating the impact of stigma on psychosocial health of children living with parents with HIV in Botswana.
Professor Pillai has served the DFW community through several organizations. In 2000 he accepted the position of secretary of South Asia Research and Information Institute (SARII) in Dallas, Tx. He has been a board member of Texas Refugee and Immigrant Women Association since 2003. He has worked with the Buckner Foundation through the Africa Program at the University of Texas at Arlington in establishing an orphanage in Seirra Leone. He is also a recipient of the Hind Rattan Award which recognizes the contributions (service, research, etc..) of people of Indian origin all over the world. He was the recipient of the University-wide Mentorship Award in 2014. In 2016, he was awarded Distinguished Senior Scholar Presidential Award by International Consortium for Social Development (Asia-Pacific).
He also served as member of various councils and commissions under the Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) been associated with CSWE during the last two decades. He has served as chair of nearly thirty and as member of another eighty or so dissertation committees. He considers such opportunities to serve as a blessing in his life.
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Social work professor recognized internationally for research
Social work professor recognized internationally for research.Social work professor Vijayan Pillai has been named a Fellow of United Kingdom’s Royal Society for Public Health. The society, an independent, multi-disciplinary charity dedicated to the improvement of public health and well-being, recognized Pillai for his research in women’s rights and reproductive health in developing countries
Innovations & Sustainability Speakers
Innovations & Sustainability Speakers Vijayan K. Pillai, Ph.D.,FRSPH Vijayan Pillai joined the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) School of Social Work as a tenured professor of social work in 1999. He taught at the University of Zambia, Lusaka and at the University of North Texas before joining UTA
International organization recognizes SSW researcher, editor of Social Work journal
International organization recognizes SSW researcher, editor of Social Work journal.The School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington offers a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), the Master of Social Work (MSW), and the PhD in Social Work. All three programs offer challenging courses and internship experiences designed to teach practice knowledge and skills while instilling the value orientations of the profession.
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