Nicole Bromfield

Dr. Nicole Bromfield is a professor of social work with over 20 years of international experience. Her PhD is in public policy with a health policy specialization and her dissertation was on the making of the trafficking victims protection act (TVPA), in which she interviewed 21 key policy players involved in the making of the TVPA. Nicole’s international experience, includes working in an educational capacity building program at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, working as an assistant professor at United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE, for six years and spending nearly two years as a Fulbright Research and Teaching Scholar at the University of Namibia, underscores her global perspective. Her scholarly pursuits are inherently interdisciplinary, utilizing perspectives from multiple related disciplines. Dr. Bromfield’s research program focuses on the social well-being of those who are vulnerable and at risk for exploitation, especially women and children, in a global context. Her research is deeply rooted in local capacity building and addresses critical issues such as the well-being of street-connected children and health policy recommendations related to child injury epidemiology. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a community-based intervention adaptation project with HIV and AIDS-impacted orphaned and vulnerable adolescent girls living in an informal settlement community in Windhoek, Namibia.