Reginald Tucker-Seeley, M.A., Sc.M., Sc.D.

Principal/Owner

2017-2018

Sen Feinstein (D-CA)

Epidemiology

Public Health

Biography

Dr. Tucker-Seeley is the Principal/Owner of Health Equity Strategies and Solutions, a consulting firm focused on advising health/healthcare related organizations, departments, and committees/coalitions in three topic areas: 1) addressing the social determinants of health; 2) defining, measuring, and intervening on health disparities; and 3) health equity strategy development, implementation, and evaluation. Prior to establishing Health Equity Strategies and Solutions, Dr. Tucker-Seeley was the Vice-President of Health Equity at ZERO Prostate Cancer, where he led the development and implementation of ZERO’s health equity strategy to reduce racial/ethnic and place-based disparities in prostate cancer. Dr. Tucker-Seeley completed master and doctoral degrees in public health 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 (DFCI). His research has focused on social determinants of health across the life course, such as the association between the neighborhood environment and health behavior; and on individual-level socioeconomic determinants of multi-morbidity, mortality, self-rated physical, mental, and oral health. His research has also investigated the association of financial hardship with health across the cancer continuum from prevention to end-of-life care.

Dr. Tucker-Seeley has a longstanding interest in the impact of health and social policy on racial/ethnic minorities and low socioeconomic groups. He has experience working on local and state level health disparities policy, and he has developed and taught courses focused on measuring and reporting health disparities. In 2017-2018, Dr. Tucker-Seeley was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with a placement in the United States Senate. Prior to joining ZERO, he was the inaugural holder of the Edward L. Schneider chair in gerontology and Assistant Professor in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, he was an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at DFCI and HSPH.

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Reginald Tucker-Seeley is the Edward L. Schneider assistant professor of gerontology in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). He leads the Tucker-Seeley Research Lab at USC, which conducts research focused on social determinants of health and health disparities across the life course. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, Tucker-Seeley was an assistant professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).
Current research in the Tucker-Seeley Research Lab focuses on the measurement and influence of financial well-being across the cancer continuum. Tucker-Seeley received R21 and K01 grants from the National Cancer Institute to develop measures of financial well-being at two points along the cancer continuum: upon prevention and following diagnosis. He was also funded by the Academy Health/Aetna Foundation Scholars in Residence Fellowship Program to develop measures of neighborhood economic well-being. Tucker-Seeley has a longstanding interest in the impact of health and social policy on the health of racial and ethnic minorities and across socioeconomic groups. He served for three years on the Rhode Island Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity, a legislatively mandated body charged with setting goals for health equity and preparing a biennial state health disparities report. Based on his experience on this commission, Tucker-Seeley
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developed a new course at HSPH called Measuring and Reporting Health Disparities, and in 2016, he received the HSPH Teaching Citation Award.

Tucker-Seeley earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from The University of Tulsa and worked in the accounting and auditing field for five years, most recently as an internal auditor at Saint Louis University. He completed an MA in human development counseling from Saint Louis University and a

Edward L. Schneider Assistant Professor of Gerontology