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Dr Anna Faul

Trager Institute

Executive Director, The University of Louisville Trager Institute

Dr. Faul’s research agenda focuses on five critical needs in the field of aging and chronic disease management:

  • The high prevalence and disproportionate impact of diabetes and cancer on marginalized people in our society;
  • The lack of health self-management and prevention programs that address cultural influences and the influences of the complex systems in which people function on people’s health;
  • The need for sophisticated multilevel explanatory, methodologies in social work and health research to analyze pathways to effective health behavior;
  • The need for social work researchers and practitioners to help fill the workforce gap for our aging society; and
  • The need for reforming long-term care.
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