Senior Director of Policy Research
PHI
Bronx, New York, United States
Kezia Scales, PhD, is the Senior Director of Policy Research for PHI, a national organization committed to promoting quality direct care jobs as the foundation of quality long-term care for older adults and people with disabilities. In her role, Dr. Scales leads PHI’s own program of policy research and analysis, helps convene and catalyze research efforts in the broader field, and contributes to the design, implementation, and evaluation of PHI’s field-leading workforce interventions.
For more than a decade, Dr. Scales has been studying and advocating for person-centered, high-quality long-term care with a focus on direct care workers. She has been published in a range of academic journals, including JAMDA, The Gerontologist, Public Policy and Aging Report, Journal of Applied Gerontology, and Sociology of Health and Illness, and she also disseminates research findings, policy recommendations, and best practices nationally and internationally through research networks, conferences, webinars, media outlets, and more.
Dr. Scales holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Nottingham and an MS in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford (England) and a BA in Sociology from Queen’s University in Canada. Prior to joining PHI in 2017, Dr. Scales completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development and the School of Nursing at Duke University and at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is based in Durham, NC.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET