Faculty

Rebecca Wells holds a joint appointment in the School of Social Work and the Department of Health Promotion & Behavior in the College of Public Health and is the coordinator of the MSW/MPH program. Her professional experiences have been in disability and include providing direct support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; information, referral, and resource provision for people with disabilities; and advancing accessibility in the workplace.

As an educator, she seeks to support her students in achieving knowledge, skills, and competencies to make the world a more just, inclusive place. Well’s content expertise includes disability, health care and health policy, and evaluation. She has experience in service-learning and online teaching. In her courses, she uses a universal design for learning (UDL) approach, incorporates active learning strategies, and implements problem-based learning strategies to support her students in putting theory into practice.

Through her role as the MSW-MPH program coordinator, Wells enjoys mentoring MSW-MPH students as they form an interprofessional identity that incorporates skill sets, ethics, and values from their two disciplines.