Brooke Ann Hollister PhD

Brooke Hollister, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. Her teaching and research focus on aging health and social policy issues including long-term care, Social Security, Medicare, the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, Alzheimer’s disease supports and services, disability, mental health, care transitions, and the use of mHealth and broadband-technology to promote the health and wellness of older adults. She has over 10 years of experience conducting research on aging health and social policy issues, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in community-based participatory research and program evaluation. Dr. Hollister is a co-editor of Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the US Health Care Delivery System (6th Ed., 2012), and Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the campaign against entitlements (2009). Dr. Hollister's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Administration for Community Living, and the California Department of Public Health.

Dr. Hollister was a 2012-13 Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with a placement in Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington, DC where she worked on a variety of health policy issues including the implementation of the ACA and the design of the financial alignment initiative for dual eligible in California.

Dr. Hollister is Vice Chair of the Gray Panthers National Board of Directors and she currently serves on the board of the American Society on Aging

Dr. Hollister is the PI on an NIA-funded R01 grant awarded in May of 2013, Case Management and Problem Solving Therapy for Depressed Older Adults. The project will evaluate the effectiveness of Case Management-Problem Solving Therapy (CM-PST) and Self- Guided Problem Solving Therapy (SG-PST) for depressed older adults living in a rural communities.

In 2015, Dr. Hollister (Co-Investigator) together with Carrie Graham (PI), and Steve Kaye (Co-I) were granted funds from the SCAN Foundation to conduct an evaluation of the Coordinated Care Initiative (CCI) in California, called Cal MediConnect.The Cal MediConnect initiative will coordinate care for California residents who are dually eligible for Medicare and MediCal (California’s Medicaid program) through contracts with private health plans. The evaluation seeks to document the impact of Cal MediConnect on dual eligible beneficiaries’ experiences with care, including access, quality, and coordination.