Faculty

Reginald Tucker-Seeley portrait

Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Gerontology

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010, Joint Harvard School of Public Health/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Educational Program in Cancer Prevention
  • ScD, 2009, Harvard School of Public Health
  • ScM, 2004, Harvard School of Public Health
  • MA, 2002, Saint Louis University
  • BSBA, 1995, University of Tulsa

Research

  • Social determinants of health across the life course
  • Socioeconomic determinants of multimorbidity, mortality and self-rated health
  • Measures of financial well-being
  • Impact of health and social policy on racial and ethnic minorities

Affiliations

  • Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center
  • Cancer Center Member, Cancer Control Research Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Overview

Reginald Tucker-Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Gerontology 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 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. Tucker-Seeley was recently selected for the 2017-2018 cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program.  The fellowship includes one-year residency in Washington, DC working either in a federal congressional or executive office on health policy issues.

Before joining the faculty at USC, Tucker-Seeley was an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and in the Center for Community Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 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.