Michael A. Lindsey

Biography

Michael Anthony Lindsey is an American scholar, college administrator and researcher in social work and public health who specializes in child and adolescent mental health, and has conducted key research about Black teenage suicide in the United States and related behaviors in adolescents. He is dean of the New York University Silver School of Social Work, where he is also the Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work. He was chair of the working group of experts who released the 2019 report for the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, titled “Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America.” Lindsey is a member of the New York City Board of Health and president of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

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