Minli Liao

Dr. Minli Liao serves as an Associate Professor in the BSW Department at Morgan State University's School of Social Work. Her office is located in the Health and Human Services Center, Room 515, with contact available via phone (443-885-3194) and email.

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MSW (Joint MSW/Ph.D. Program), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MS, Renmin University of China
• BS, Shandong University, China

Her research spans Urban Child Welfare, Children with Disabilities, and Child Abuse & Neglect, with emphasis on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Current teaching includes Social Work Statistics, Research Methods, and Human Services Statistics courses. Her publication record demonstrates consistent focus on vulnerable populations including children, adolescents, elderly, and minority communities across diverse geographical contexts from Baltimore to rural Namibia. Recent work examines racial disparities in mental health services, caregiver-child reporting discrepancies in maltreatment cases, and reentry healthcare challenges for formerly incarcerated African American men.

Dr. Liao teaches SOWK 363 (Social Work Stat & Data Analysis), SOWK 460 (Social Work Research), and SOWK 702 (Social Work Human Services Stat I), integrating her research expertise into quantitative methodology instruction for social work students.