Debra Street
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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
Recent Courses:
Soc 582: ST Mid-life
and Later Adulthood: Canadian and American Experiences
Soc 555: Sociology of Aging: Theory and Research
Soc 606: Graduate Research Methods
Soc 582: ST Health, Life Course, and Public Policy
Soc 304: Sociology of Aging
Soc 322: Introduction to Medical Sociology
Bio: Debra Street is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her publications include works analyzing the impact of public programs and tax policies on health and income security over the life course, women's 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 is Principal Investigator (with collaborators) on three currently funded projects: (1) The Four Seasons study compares community experiences and migration intentions of mid-life and older Canadians and Americans, a joint UB-University of Western Ontario endeavor. (2) The 2007 Mississippi Physician Workforce Study, a partnership between UB and Mississippi State University, examines issues relating to the Mississippi physician workforce, particularly recruitment and retention in the Nation's poorest state. (3) An NSF-funded HSD initiative that pairs UB and Kansas State University researchers for exploratory research documenting the social process that impede and promote interdisciplinary research team outputs. 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.