Reginald Tucker Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD
July 7, 2020
Dr. Tucker-Seeley is 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). Tucker-Seeley 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 (DFCI).
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 on individual-level socioeconomic determinants of multimorbidity, mortality, self-rated physical, mental, and oral health, and adult height.
Tucker-Seeley has received funding from the National Cancer Institute for research focused on defining and measuring financial well-being for cancer research. His current research projects focus on explicating the influence of financial hardship across the chronic disease continuum from prevention to end-of-life care, and understanding the process of screening for social needs in the health care delivery system.
Tucker-Seeley has a longstanding interest in the impact of health and social policy on racial/ethnic minorities and across socioeconomic groups. He has experience working on local and state level health disparities policy, and in the measuring and reporting of health disparities at the state level. In 2017-2018, Tucker-Seeley was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with a placement in the United States Senate.
Before joining the faculty at USC, Tucker-Seeley was an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH and in the Center for Community Based Research at DFCI. Prior to graduate study at Harvard, he received an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Tulsa and worked in the accounting/auditing field for five years, most recently as an internal auditor at Saint Louis University. He also completed an MA degree in Human Development Counseling from Saint Louis University and a clinical counseling internship at the Washington University Student Health and Counseling Service.