Okechukwu honored for work-family research

Cassandra Okechukwu, ScD ’08, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received several awards for her research on work-family issues.

Cassandra OkechukwuThe American Public Health Association’s Aging & Public Health Section has selected her manuscript, entitled “Work-family support and climate impact nursing home care quality: Findings from a mixed method study,” winner of the 2015 James Zimmer New Investigator Award. The award will be presented November 2, 2015 at APHA’s annual meeting in Chicago.

Okechukwu won “Best Junior Scholar Paper” for a similar paper at the VI International Conference of Work and Family held this summer in Barcelona, Spain.

Her paper, entitled “Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network,” was selected for the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter International Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family. The award was announced September 21, 2015 by the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family. A committee of over 50 scholars selected the nominees after examining more than 2,500 articles published in 77 leading journals from around the world.