Neomi Vin-Raviv
Director of Instructional Design and Assessment
What I do
Neomi Vin-Raviv, MPH, PhD is Director of Instructional Design and Assessment at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW). Her responsibilities include leading the design, implementation, and manage GSSW's curricular and instructional strategy to promote program improvement, assess course- and field-based learning for required competencies, and align courses with overall accreditation standards, overseeing all professional accreditation efforts, assess the curriculum and candidate progress toward competencies, internal data collection and reporting, and ad hoc requests, collaborating with central offices to respond to state and federal data requests, and supporting the GSSW leadership team in strategic decision making as it relates to curriculum improvements accreditation and assessment.
Professional Biography
Dr. Vin-Raviv is a cancer epidemiologist with training in epidemiology methods, mental health epidemiology, psychological outcomes and health disparities in cancer populations. In her initial research, she focused on how early environmental life exposures may influence the health risks faced by individuals later in life. She examined the association between exposure to psychologically stressful or traumatic experiences and nutritional deprivation during World War II with cancer 60 years later among Holocaust survivors. Her work has stimulated scientific discussion of the role of early-life exposures in cancer etiology. In addition, the Israeli government has implemented the recommendations to change by the State Investigative Committee, based on her research, and to compensates Holocaust survivors diagnosed with colorectal and lung cancer. During her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, she advanced her research interests in the long-term physical and psychosocial effects faced by many cancer survivors after completing active treatment. For her research work she utilized data from population-based cancer registries, administrative claims, and existing cohort studies.
Before stepping into her role at DU. Dr. Vin-Raviv served has Assistant Professor, and Outcomes and Assessment Committee Chair, in the School of Social Work at Colorado State University(CSU) from 2016 to 2023. She thought undergraduate and graduate research courses within the social work program. She successfully served as advisor to 127 MSW graduate students in their program evaluation research projects. She mentored undergraduate students through the Multicultural Undergraduate Research Art and Leadership Symposium (MURALS) at CSU. She has become a faculty member at the Graduate Center for Inclusive Mentoring (GCIM) at CSU.
Degree(s)
- 2011- Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Haifa, School of Public Health, Israel
- 2006- M.P.H., with Honors Epidemiology, University of Haifa, School of Public Health, Israel
- 2003- B.Arts, with Honors Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science and Studies in Life Science, Radiography and Imaging, Bar Ilan University, Israel
