PHS 398 (Rev. 9/04), Biographical Sketch Format Page



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Provide the following information for the key personnel and other significant contributors.

Follow this format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES. | |

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|NAME |POSITION TITLE |

|Wallace, Steven P., Ph.D. | |

| |Professor & Associate Director |

|eRA COMMONS USER NAME | |

|Wallace2 | |

|EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.) |

|INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |DEGREE |YEAR(s) |FIELD OF STUDY |

| |(if applicable) | | |

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|University of California-Santa Cruz |BA |1979 |Sociology |

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|University of California-San Francisco |Ph.D. |1987 |Sociology |

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Positions and Employment

1986-1987 Consultant, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

1987-1990 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

1990-present Assistant Professor (1990-95); Associate Professor (1995-2000); Full Professor (2000-present), Vice Chair (2005-present). UCLA School of Public Health, Dept. of Community Health Sciences

1996-present Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Honors and current memberships

Delta Omega (public health honorary society) 1994; Borun Scholar, Borun Center for Gerontological Research, UCLA 1996-98; Fulbright Scholar, Santiago, Chile 2000-01; Member: Am Public Health Assoc, Gerontological Society America, American Society on Aging, Soc Study of Social Problems, Am Sociological Association.

Selected publications (in chronological order)

Mendez-Luck CA, Kennedy DP, Wallace SP. Concepts of Burden in Giving Care to Older Relatives: A Study of Female Caregivers in a Mexico City Neighborhood. J Cross Cultural Gerontology. Forthcoming 2008

Wallace, SP, VF Gutiérrez, X Castañeda. Access to Preventive Services for Adults of Mexican Origin. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Forthcoming July 2008.

Ortega, AN, H Fang, VH Perez, JA Rizzo, O Carter-Pokras, SP Wallace, L. Gelberg. “Health Care Access and Utilization among Undocumented Mexican and Other Latino Adults.” Archives of Internal Medicine. 167:21 (November 26, 2007), 2354-2360.

Yu, H, YY Meng, CA Mendez-Luck, M Jhawar, SP Wallace. “Meeting Local Data Needs: Small Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage for California Legislative Districts.” American Journal of Public Health.97:4(2007), 731-737.

Markides, KS, SP Wallace. “Minority Elders in the United States: Implications for Public Policy.” Pp. 193-216 in Rachel Pruchno, Michael Smyer, eds. Challenges of an Aging Society: Ethical Dilemmas, Political Issues. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Markides, KS, L Rudkin, SP Wallace. “Ethnicity and Minorities.” Pp. 532-538 in J.E. Birren, ed., Encyclopedia of Gerontology, Second Edition. San Diego: Elsevier, 2007.

Miller-Martinez, D, SP Wallace. “Structural Contexts and Life Course Processes in the Social Networks of Older Mexican Immigrants in the United States.” Pp. 141-154 in S. Carmel, C.A. Morse, F. Torres-Gil, eds. Lessons on Aging from Three Nations. Vol. 1. New York: Baywood, 2007.

Villa, V, SP Wallace. “Diversity and Aging: Implications for Aging Policy.” Pp. 91-103 in S. Carmel, C.A. Morse, F. Torres-Gil, eds. Lessons on Aging from Three Nations. Vol. 1. New York: Baywood, 2007.

Rodríguez, MA, SP Wallace, NH Woolf, CM Mangione. “Mandatory Reporting of Elder Abuse: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.” Annals of Family Medicine. 4:5 (2006), 403-409.

Villa, V, SP Wallace, AT Huynh-Hohnbaum.” The Aging Hispanic Population: Prescriptions for Health and Economic Security in Old Age.” Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. 18 (2005-6), 59-73.

Pourat, N., M. Kagawa-Singer, SP Wallace. “Are managed care Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions satisfied with their care?” Journal of Aging and Health. 18:1 (2006), 70-90.

Wallace, SP “Evidence-based Policy and Practice: Prospects and Perils.” Gerontologist. 46:3(2006),409-413.

Wallace, SP “The public health perspective on aging.” Generations. 29:2 (2005), 5-10.

Wallace, SP, V.F. Gutierrez. “Equity of access to health care for older persons in four Latin American Countries:Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay.”Pan American Journal of Public Health.17:5-6(2005),394-409.

Estes, C.L., SP Wallace. “Older People.” Pp. 113-129 In Barry and Victor Sidel, eds., Social Injustice and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Wallace, SP, V.Villa. “Equitable Health Systems: Cultural and Structural Issues for Older Latinos.” American Journal of Law and Medicine.29:2/3 (2003), 247-269.

Levy-Storms, L., SP Wallace. “Use of mammography screening among older Samoan women in Los Angeles county: a diffusion network approach.” Social Science & Medicine.57:5(September 2003),987-1000.

Wallace, SP Medical Care Equity for Older Persons in Chile: The Role of the Insurance Sector.” Revista de la CEPAL/ CEPAL Review. 78 (December 2002), Spanish ed. pp. 125-138, English ed. pp. 119-131.

Mendez, C.A., SP Wallace. “Access to Health Care for Vulnerable Elderly.” Nat. Assoc.of Elder Law Attorneys Q. 15:4 (Fall 2002), 3-8.

Marín, P.P. SP Wallace. “Health Care for the Elderly in Chile: A County in Transition.” Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 14:4 (2002), 271-278.

Hikoyeda, N., SP Wallace. “Do Ethnic-Specific Long Term Care Facilities Improve Resident Quality of Life? Findings from the Japanese American Community.” J of Geron Social Work. 36:1/2(2002), 83-106.

Wallace, SP, V. Enriquez-Haass. “Disponibilidad, accesibilidad y aceptabilidad en el sistema de atención médica en vías de cambio para los adultos mayores en EEUU.”PanAm J Publ Hlth, 10:1 (July 2001), 18-28.

Pourat, N., R.M. Andersen, SP Wallace. “Post Admission Disparities in Nursing Home Stays of Whites and Minority Elderly.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 12:3 (August 2001), 352-366

Wallace, SP, E.K. Abel, P.Stefanowitz, N. Pourat. “Long-term care and the elderly population.” Pp. 205-223 in R.Andersen, T.Rice, G.Kominski, eds.,Changing the U.S. Health Care System.SF,CA:Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Levy-Storms, L., SP Wallace, L. Burhansstipanov, F. Goldfarb. The Community as a Classroom: A Health Communication Program Among Older Samoan and American Indian Women.” In S. Kar and R. Alcalay, Health Promotion Communication: A Multicultural Perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. 2000.

Wallace, SP, J. Cohn, J. Schnelle, R.L. Kane, J.G. Ouslander. “Managed Care and Multi-level Long-Term Care Providers: Reluctant Partners.” Gerontologist, 40:2 (April 2000), 197-205.

Pourat, N., J.L. Lubben, H.Yu, SP Wallace. “Perceptions of Health and Utilization of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly.” Journal of Health and Aging. 12:1 (Feb 2000), 112-134.

Pourat, N., J.L. Lubben, SP Wallace, A. Moon. “Predictors of Use of Traditional Korean Healers Among Elderly Koreans in Los Angeles.” Gerontologist, 39:6 (December 1999), 711-719.

Wallace, SP, V. Enriquez-Haass, K. Markides. “The Consequences of Color-blind Health Policy for Older Racial and Ethnic Minorities.” Stanford Law and Policy Review, 9:2 (Spring 1998), 329-46.

Wallace, SP, L. Levy-Storms, R. Kington, R.M. Andersen. “The persistence of race and ethnicity in the use of long-term care.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 53B:2 (March 1998), S104-112.

Wallace, SP, Ronald Andersen, Lené Levy Storms, Raynard Kington. 1997. "The Impact by Race of Changing Long-term Care Policy." Journal of Aging and Social Policy. 9(3):1-20.

Wallace, SP, V. Villa, J.L. Lubben, A. Moon. “Health Practices of Korean Elderly People: National Health Priorities and Minority Community Needs” Family and Community Health. 19:2 (1996), 30-43.

Park Tanjasiri, S., SP Wallace, K. Shibata. "Picture Imperfect: Hidden Problems Among Asian Pacific Islander Elderly." The Gerontologist. 35:6 (December 1995), 753-760.

Wallace, SP, L. Levy-Storms, L.R. Ferguson. "Access to Paid In-Home Assistance among Disabled Elderly: Do Latinos Differ from NonLatino Whites?" Am Journal of Public Health, 85:7 (1995), 970-975.

Wallace, SP "Community Formation as an Activity of Daily Living: The Case of Nicaraguan Immigrant Elderly." Journal of Aging Studies. 6:4 (Winter 1992), 365-384.

Wallace, SP "Race Versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly." Social Problems. 37:4 (November 1990), pp. 517-534.

Research Support

Ongoing Research Support (selected)

(Wallace) 1/1/08-12/31/08

LA County AAA, Insight Center Role:PI

“California Elder Economic Security Standard Index”

Develop and apply methodology to determine number and profile of economically insecure elders in California.

2007-370 (Wallace) 1/1/08-12/31/09

The California Wellness Foundation Role: PI

“Datos y Democracia”

Develop and evaluate a train-the-trainer course in Spanish for community-based organizations to increase their capacity to find, analyze, and present data.

20071272 (Wallace) 11/1/07-10/31/09

The California Endowment Role: PI

“Data & Democracy”

Develop and evaluate a statewide program of train-the-trainer courses for community-based organizations to increase their capacity to conduct and use community assessments.

2P30AG021684 (Mangione) 09/07-6/12

NIA Role: Investigator & CoDirector of Coordinating Center

“Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME)”

Development of a Center to promote the training of researchers in minority aging and improve measurement in such research; coordinate other centers nationally.

2R13AG023033-05 (Frank) 9/01/07 – 8/31/08

NIH/NIA Role: CoPI

“Minority Aging Research "State of the Science" Conference”

Design and hold a preconference workshop on the NIA research priorities in minority aging.

(Wallace) 8/15/07-8/14/08

The California Endowment Role: PI

“Evaluation of the TCE Place-Based Initiatives”

Evaluate the effectiveness of grant making efforts to foster collaborative health promotion activities.

(Wallace) 11/1/2006-5/30/08

Programa de Investigacion de Migracion y Salud (PIMSA) Role:PI

“Governance and social protection of health for Mexican immigrants in the U.S.”

Identify legal, organizational, and market factors that hinder the establishment of binational insurance and suggest ways to minimize those barriers.

2006-082 (Wallace) 7/1/06-6/30/09

The California Wellness Foundation Role: PI

“Healthy-aging Information Project”

Identify threats to healthy aging among older Californians using CHIS 2003, analyze trends in the health of older Californians using CHIS 2001-05, and collect data about falls among the elderly in CHIS 2007.

Completed Research Support (selected)

(Wallace) 3/1/07-12/31/07

California Policy Research Center, LA County AAA, LA City AAA Role:PI

"Refinement of the Elder Economic Security Standard (EESS) for California"

Adapting and improving the EESS developed for Massachusetts to the California context.

(Wallace) 8/1/07-12/31/07

Health Initiative of the Americans (UCOP) Role: PI

“Immigration, Health and Work”

Develop a report on the labor force participation of Mexican immigrants and the occupational risks and health insurance status of those workers in California and the U.S.

(Brown/Wallace) 8/1/07-12/31/07

The California Endowment Role: CoPI

“Health Care Reform and Immigration”

Prepare a state of the art brief on the impact of health care reform on undocumented immigration.

P30 AG21684 (Mangione) 10/02-9/07

NIA Role: Investigator and coordinating center CoPI

“Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders”

Development of a Center to promote the training of researchers in minority aging, improve measurement in such research, and coordinate other centers nationally.

1R13 AG23033-01 (Frank) 10/01/03 – 9/30/07

NIH/NIA Role: CoPI

“The Minority Faculty Development in aging Research Conference Series (4 Years)”

Annual conferences to provide a forum for the scientific advancement of training processes and tools developed by NIA-sponsored programs. Linked with the Gerontological Society of America’s annual meetings.

2005-183 (Wallace) 9/30/05-8/31/07

The California Wellness Foundation Role: PI

“Datos y Democracia”

Develop and evaluate a statewide program in Spanish of train-the-trainer courses for community-based organizations to increase their capacity to conduct and use community assessments (coordinated w/below).

539252 (Wallace) 8/1/05-7/31/07

The California Endowment Role: PI

“Data & Democracy”

Develop and evaluate a statewide program of train-the-trainer courses for community-based organizations to increase their capacity to conduct and use community assessments.

DCA 20051881 (Wallace) 10/15/05-3/31/07

The California Endowment Role: PI

“Evaluation of the Los Angeles Collaborative”

Analyze the effectiveness of the Collaborative and compare its impact to similar initiatives statewide.

DCA 2005302 (Wallace) 11/15/05-6/30/06

The California Endowment Role: PI

“Eligibility Benefits Gap for California Seniors”

Analyze the gap between health needs of older Californians and the public programs that are supposed to address those needs.

D31HP70137 (Frank) 7/1/01-6/30/06

HRSA/BHP Role: Public Health Director

“California Geriatric Education Center”

Health professions training in gerontological and geriatric.

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