Kathryn Kietzman

Kathryn G. Kietzman, PhD, MSW, is a researcher at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her research focuses primarily on the health and social care needs of the most physically, socially and financially vulnerable of older adults who live at home and depend on public programs and other informal supports to maintain their independence. She was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in the United States Senate (2008-2010), a Hartford Doctoral Fellow in Geriatric Social Work (2006-2008), and earned her doctorate from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She completed both bachelor and master degrees in social welfare at UC Berkeley.