Reginald Tucker-Seeley

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Reginald Tucker-Seeley

Research Associate

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

44 Binney Street
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Center for Community-Based Research LW747
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Phone: 617.582.8321
retucker@hsph.harvard.edu

Educational History

BSBA, 1995, University of Tulsa

MA, 2002, Saint Louis University

ScM, 2004, Harvard School of Public Health

ScD, 2009, Harvard School of Public Health

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010, Joint Harvard School of Public Health/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Educational Program in Cancer Prevention

Research

Research Interests

  • Socioeconomic disparities and financial well-being across the cancer continuum
  • Conceptualization and operationalization of financial well-being across the cancer continuum
  • Measuring the neighborhood environment and the effects of the neighborhood on health and health behavior

Dr. Tucker-Seeley’s substantive research interests are in two areas.  First, he is interested in financial well-being across the cancer continuum from prevention to end-of-life care.  His work focuses on the measurement of financial well-being as well as investigating the potentially bidirectional relationship between financial well-being and health outcomes across the cancer continuum.  Second, Dr. Tucker-Seeley is interested in the measurement of the neighborhood environment in cancer prevention and social epidemiology research.  More specifically, his work in this area focuses on the measurement of neighborhood services and the impact of the neighborhood service/retail environment on health and health behavior.  Dr. Tucker-Seeley applies these interests to secondary epidemiologic investigations and community-based research with low-income and elderly populations.

 

Selected Publications

Tucker-Seeley, R.D.; Li, Y.; Sorensen, G.; Subramanian, SV. Lifecourse socioeconomic circumstances and multimorbidity among older adults.  BMC Public Health, 2011, 11:313  Available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/313

Tucker-Seeley, R.D.; Subramanian, SV. Childhood circumstances and height among older adults in the United States.  Economics and Human Biology, 2011, Vol 9(2): 194-202.

Tucker-Seeley, R.D.; Li, Y.; Subramanian, SV; Sorensen, G. Financial Hardship and Mortality among Older Adults Using the 1996–2004 Health and Retirement Study.  Annals of Epidemiology, 2009, Vol 19(12): 850-857.

Tucker-Seeley, R.D.; Subramanian, SV; Li, Y.; Sorensen, G. Neighborhood safety, socioeconomic status, and physical activity in older adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2009, Vol 37(3):207-13.

Bennett, G.G.; Scharon-Lee, M.; Tucker-Seeley, R.D. Will the public’s health fall victim to the home foreclosure epidemic?  PLoS Medicine, 2009, Jun 16;6(6) Available: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000087

Bennett, G.G., Merritt, M.M., Sollers, J., Edwards, C.L., Whitfield, K., Brandon, D., Tucker, R.D. Stress, coping, and health outcomes: A review of the John Henryism hypothesis. Psychology and Health 2004, Vol 19(3): 369-383.