Rate My Professor Robert Keefe

Keefe's research specializations center on health disparities, health access and outcomes, public health social work, and perinatal mental health, particularly postpartum depression among low-income mothers of color. He co-edited the Handbook for Public Health Social Work (Springer, 2013) and has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Key publications include "Addressing the Triple Trauma of Factors Leading to Perinatal Health and Mental Health Consequences in Two Upstate New York Communities" (Behavioral Sciences, 2025), "'I gotta carry the burden by myself:' Experiences of peripartum depression among low-income mothers of color" (Advances in Social Work, 2021), "Public health social work as a unifying framework for social work’s Grand Challenges" (Social Work, 2019), and "Community gun violence as a social determinant of elementary school achievement" (Social Work in Public Health, 2018). His contributions have earned major awards, including the Insley/Evans Public Health Social Worker of the Year from the American Public Health Association (2011), Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine (2013), Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice – Social Work (2018), and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Awards from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work (2019, 2010). Keefe is an active member of the Society for Social Work and Research, Council on Social Work Education, and American Public Health Association.