Steven Albert Affiliate Faculty

Biography

Dr. Steven Albert  is the Hallen Chair of Community Health and Social Justice in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Albert  has 30 years of research experience in aging, neurologic disease, and interventions to change health behavior. Dr. Albert has served as PI on three R01 efforts (AG18234, Cognitive and Physical Basis of Disablement, 2001-06; MH62200, Depression and End of Life Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 2000-07; and NR012459, End of Life in the Very Old, 2010-15). Dr. Albert is currently co-direct the Clinical and Population Outcomes Core (CPOC) of the University of Pittsburgh NIA Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (P30 AG024827). Dr. Albert served as Co-Director and then Director of the U Pitt CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC U48 DP001918). Dr. Albert recently led the University of Pittsburgh HRSA Public Health Social Work Leadership training program (6G05HP7841) and a Core of the U Pitt NIMH Advanced Center for Intervention Services Research for Late Life Depression Prevention (MH090333). Dr. Albert has completed an extensive array of CDC-funded research, including an evaluation of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging’s statewide falls prevention program ( “Comparative Effectiveness of Community-Based Falls Prevention in Pennsylvania,” CDC ARRA U48 DP002657, 2010-13) that established the evidence base for the program. This research led to certification of the program and eligibility for Title-IIID ACL/AoA funding. Recently, with funding from the Dean’s Office, Dr. Albert established the Public Health Records Lab (PHRL) to use hospital system, health plan, and health insurance exchange EHR data to assess community health dynamics, and per a current data use agreement with the PA Department of Aging and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) the state aging services program data (subsidized prescription, housing, transportation use) merged with the UPMC EHR to assess the effect of meeting social needs on health outcomes.