Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet

Qiana Cryer-Coupet is the BSW Program Director and an associate professor of Social Work in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research program explores the drivers of health and wellness among fathers and the impacts of father involvement and engagement on child, caregiver, and community well-being.

Dr. Cryer-Coupet’s work has been funded by the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the North Department of Health and Human Services. She has served Mathematica Policy Research as a technical work group member for the Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare Project and the KEEP Fathers Engaged Project. She is also a Father Wellbeing and Involvement Working Group member with the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University. Dr. Cryer-Coupet is co-editor of the textbook Social Work Practice with Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention.

Before her current appointment, she served on the School of Social Work faculty at North Carolina State University. There, she received the outstanding junior faculty award for 2020-21 and served as interim director of the MSW program for 2021-22.

Dr. Cryer-Coupet earned her BA in Psychology from Illinois Wesleyan University, her MSW from the University of Maryland-Baltimore, and her PhD from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago.