IOA Staff

Judie Svihula, Ph.D.

Fellow

Judie Svihula is a Fellow at the UNC Institute on Aging. She recently has been serving as researcher/consultant for the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Judie’s work at UNC Chapel Hill includes two projects; the Rebalancing Initiative and Preventative Home Visits (based in Allied Health). In July, 2007 she completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship through the NIH/NIA funded Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research at the Institute. Prior to moving to North Carolina, Judie was a Tish Sommers Senior Scholar at the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF. She is a graduate from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, where she specialized in gerontology, social planning theories and collaborative intervention. Judie’s research focuses broadly on the political processes related to social insurance programs; the political economy of aging; social theories of aging; political networks and social movements.