The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has conferred its organization’s prestigious Fellow status on Joseph Grzywacz, Ph.D. Dr. Grzywacz  is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Family Resilience at Oklahoma State University. Formerly, Dr. Grzywacz was a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.

Professor Grzywacz’s scholarly contributions are current, prolific, and consistent over time. He has published in journals pertaining to families: Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, American Journal of Health Promotion, and theAmerican Journal of Public Health. His area of expertise as an interdisciplinary social scientist  in health, family and work is well known nationally and internationally. His commitment to bridge research interests (work-family linkages and family health/well-being) is notable. He is particularly interested in health as it relates to work and family issues including socioeconomic and racial disparities in health care. Since 1999, he has authored or co-authored 163+ scientific publications. He has been awarded the “Endowed Professor of Family Resilience” from the Kaiser Family Foundation (2012).

Dr. Grzymacz has been involved with numerous research grants/awards since 1999. He has served as the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for many research projects. His work is at the edge of family and health scholarship and Dr. Grzywacz has made enduring contributions to the family field as a scholar. 

The National Council on Family Relations is the nation’s premier professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. NCFR has a membership of more than 3600 family researchers, practitioners and educators.  For more information on the National Council on Family Relations or its scholarly publications, contact NCFR at 1-888-781-9331 or visit its website at www.ncfr.org.