EP25: RWJF Health Policy Fellows: An Interview with Reginald Tucker-Seely

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Healthcare careers are rewarding and fulfilling because people get to partner with communities to find ways to solve health-related problems. In this week’s episode, let’s get to know my guest, Reginald Tucker-Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, and see how he’s making a difference in health disparities and health equity. </span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘RWJF Health Policy Fellows: An Interview with Reginald Tucker-Seely’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reginald Tucker-Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, is the inaugural holder of the Edward L. Schneider Chair in Gerontology and assistant professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. He manages the Tucker-Seeley Research Lab at the gerontology school. He completed master and doctoral degrees in public health (social and behavioral sciences) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention and control at HSPH and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His research has focused primarily on social determinants of health across the life course, such as the association between the neighborhood environment and health behavior; and individual-level socioeconomic determinants of multimorbidity, mortality, self-rated physical, mental and oral health, and adult height.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Tucker-Seeley has received funding from the National Cancer Institute for research focused on developing measures of financial well-being for cancer research. The first grant was an R21, “Development of a measure of financial well-being: Expanding our notion of SES,” The second grant was a K01 Career Development grant, “Financial well-being following a prostate cancer diagnosis." He is also interested in how the neighborhood environment is defined and measured.</span></p> <p><strong><em>I recognized the demographic shift and we're going to have more older adults. We need to have policy solutions for addressing it.”