JILL DUERR BERRICK, MSW, PhD

Jill Duerr Berrick, MSW, PhD, serves as a Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor in the School of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley. Berrick’s research focuses on the role of the state in private family life. Her most recent research focuses on international comparative studies of child protection systems and children’s rights. She has written or co-written 12 books on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare services.