About Us: Executive Leadership

Steven P. Wallace, PhD
Associate Director
Professor, UCLA School of Public Health

Steven P. Wallace, PhD, is a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and an associate director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (Center). Wallace is a leading national scholar in the area of aging in communities of color. He has published research on access to long-term care by diverse elderly groups, disparities in the consequences of health policy changes on racial/ethnic minority elderly, and the politics of aging. Other published research subjects include health and policy issues of older Latinos, Asian-Pacific Islander Americans, and African Americans in journals such as American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Gerontology, and Social Science and Medicine. He has also published research on immigrant health for over 20 years. Ten of his publications have been reprinted in edited books and he has coauthored two dozen policy briefs and reports at the Center.

Wallace has been Co-PI for six years at the Coordinating Center for the NIA-funded Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research. And for more than 10 years, he has been PI or Co-PI of several projects that provide community-based training on how to use data to advocate for improving access to care for underserved populations in California. He is a past chair of the Gerontological Health Section of APHA and a past chair of the Task Force on Health and Aging of the Association of Schools of Public Health. In 2000, Wallace received a Fulbright Fellowship to research and lecture in Chile, where he studied the impact of public policies on health equity for the elderly.

His current research focuses on healthy aging among older Californians, measuring income security for older adults, and studying access to care issues of Mexican immigrants. Wallace received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco.