Tiffany Washington
Associate Professor
Director, Ph.D. Program
Tiffany Washington has five years of direct practice experience in medical social work. Her research interests include designing and implementing culturally-targeted social and behavioral interventions to reduce the burden of health disparities and improve psychosocial outcomes in older chronic kidney disease patients and dementia caregivers. She is the recipient of several research and training grants, including the John A. Hartford Doctoral Fellowship, and has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles in The Gerontologists, Social Work in Public Health, and Social Work Research. She has also delivered presentations to national audiences, including The Gerontological Society of America and the American Society of Neprhology.
Washington’s teaching interests encompass aging and health, social work practice in health care settings, generalists social work practice, and service-learning. Of note, Washington designed a dementia caregiving service-learning course that takes an engaged scholarship approach of integrating research, teaching, and service to understand the impact of dementia on individuals, families, and communities.
