Mary Beth Ali
MSW, LCSW, C-ASWCM
Bio
Mary Beth Ali serves as an NTT Assistant Teaching Professor & Special Assistant to the Dean for Interprofessional Health Initiatives.
As an NTT Assistant Teaching professor, her responsibilities include teaching nine (9) three credit courses for calendar year (CY) appointments focusing on knowledge dissemination, service, supporting student wellbeing, and success to help advance the school's commitment to inclusion, intersectionality, diversity, equity, and advancement, and other duties as assigned, consistent with the SSW tenure track series.
As the Special Assistant to the Dean for Interprofessional Health Initiatives, she collaborates with more than a dozen academic institutions across the NJ/PA region to write interprofessional case curricula, ensuring space for the implementation of social determinants of health exploration. In more than 30 interprofessional education events each semester, Rutgers School of Social Work students collaborate with their peers to create an inclusive biopsychosocial-spiritual care plan for the simulated case.
Ali's practice and research, and areas of publication, vary from health and medical social work with a specialty in HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) to interprofessional health team collaboration and integrating clinical services for Muslims.
Before joining Rutgers' faculty, Ali served individuals, couples, families, and psychoeducational structured groups in the health and school social work arenas.
Ali is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed School Social Worker, Substance Awareness Coordinator, and NASW (National Association of Social Workers) Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager in New Jersey. Ali earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Fordham University with an emphasis on social work research. She also earned two bachelor's degrees: a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Ali holds clinical certificates in NASW, NJ-Advanced Care Planning, Bowen Family Systems, NASW Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager, NASW Clinical supervision, Post-Traumatic Stress Management, Strengthening Families, Seminar in Field Instruction, and Thought Field Therapy.