Krista Harrison, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Krista Harrison, PhD, is a health policy, ethics, and health services researcher who is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) within the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research aims to improve models of care & policies for older adults living with, dying from, and grieving neurodegenerative diseases and other serious illnesses. Examples include formative qualitative data to develop geriatric neuropalliative care interventions and using nationally representative quantitative data to examine the impact of hospice, and hospice policy changes, on community-dwelling people with dementia and care partners. She completed her PhD in health policy and bioethics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; postdoctoral training in aging research and implementation science at UCSF, and an Atlantic Fellowship for Equity and Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute. Before joining UCSF, Dr. Harrison was an executive leader at a large nonprofit community-based hospice and palliative care organization and evaluated national policies and programs at Mathematica Policy Research. Her current leadership roles at UCSF include IHPS Associate Director of Training, Director of the AHRQ T32 Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship, co-Associate Director of the NIA T32 Aging Research Program, and co-Leader of the Vulnerable Aging Research Core of the UCSF Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center.
Visit Dr. Harrison's Network Website: https://geriatrics.ucsf.edu/harrison-network
Visit Dr. Harrison's Network Website: https://geriatrics.ucsf.edu/harrison-network