Debra Street
Associate Professor
Education:
PhD (1996), Florida State University
Research Interests: Health and income security; long-term care; families, aging and the life course; comparative public policies/welfare state; social dynamics of interdisciplinary research; mixed-methods research design
In Fall 2009, Debra Street will be the first UB Sociology professor to teach in the new UB Singapore sociology major. She also directs the only UB semester-long study abroad program, the UB Semester in London, That program runs from January 13-April 24, 2010. For additional information contact Debra Street, the Study Abroad office or select the link above.
Recent Courses:
Undergraduate
SOC 467 Sociology of Social Policy
SOC 477 Sociology of Health Care
SOC 370 Political Sociology
SOC 304 Sociology of Aging
SOC 322 Introduction to Medical Sociology
Graduate
SOC 606 Graduate Research Methods
SOC 582 Mid-life and Later Adulthood: Canadian and American Experiences
SOC 555 Sociology of Aging: Theory and Research
SOC 582 Health, Life Course, and Public Policy
Bio:
Debra Street is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her publications include works associated with the health care workforce, long-term care, and analyzing the impact of public programs and tax policies on health and income security over the life course. More specifically, she studies the gendered nature of later life income security, the unintended consequences of public policies on long-term care outcomes, and the politics and policy histories of public expenditure. She collaborates on several ongoing research projects: (1) The Four Seasons, a pilot study comparing community experiences and migration intentions of mid-life and older Canadians and Americans, a joint UB-University of Western Ontario endeavor. (2) An NSF-funded HSD project (UB and Kansas State University partnership) pursues exploratory research documenting the social processes that impede and promote interdisciplinary research team outputs. (3) The 2007 Mississippi Physician Workforce Study (with Jeralynn Cossman, Mississippi State University) analyzes Mississippi physician workforce issues, particularly recruitment/retention and the experiences of minority and rural physicians in the Nation's poorest state. (4) The Arizona Mature Worker Study (with Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, UB), funded by the Baldy Institute for Law and Social Policy and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, documents the roles of labor market intermediaries and recent labor market experiences of 50+ workers under current economic conditions. Street has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.