Jessica Goldhirsch, M.P.H., M.S.W., LICSW

Jessica Goldhirsch, M.P.H., M.S.W., LICSW is a licensed independent clinical social worker with Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s interdisciplinary inpatient adult palliative care consult service. Previously, Goldhirsch founded a medical interpreter services department at a community hospital and later coordinated training for a large urban teaching hospital’s interpreter services department. She has developed curricula and taught medical interpreters and clinicians to effectively work together as they provide palliative care across languages and cultures for over 25 years. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on medical interpreter training and education including palliative care and vicarious trauma. Goldhirsch earned her master’s degree in social work from Boston College and her master’s degree in public health from Boston University. She is a member of  Brigham and Women’s Hospital Ethics Committee, the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, Palliative Care and Hospice Social Workers of Massachusetts and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care.