EMILY C. FRANZOSA
Research and Policy Expertise
Supporting the rights and preference of older adults and people with disabilities to live and age safely and independently in their communities, including developing evidence-based policy to ensure equitable access to and quality of home and community-based services; strengthen the direct care workforce; provide home-based medical care (primary care, hospice, Hospital at Home); and advance inclusive disaster preparedness.
Professional Experience
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, J.J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx NY
Research Health Science Specialist/Director, Advanced Fellowship in Geriatrics
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, New York NY Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC (joint appointment) Jan. 2020 – present
Assistant Professor of Geriatrics
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging (Majority staff), Washington DC
Health and Aging Policy Fellow, Disability Policy team Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2024
City University of New York (multiple campuses), New York, NY
Senior Researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor Sept. 2016 – Sept. 2019
1199SEIU Benefit and Pension Funds, New York, NY March 2003 – Dec. 2019
Managing Editor (through 2008), Communications Director (2008-10), Consultant, Special Projects (2010-2019)
Selected Publications, Reports and Presentations
·Dawson CM, Kelley L, Dryden EM, Hung WW, Moo LR, Ding M, Franzosa E. Healthcare leadership perspectives on priority‐setting, geriatrics and rural care, and effective advocacy strategies: Lessons from the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2025 Oct.
Franzosa E, Wyte-Lake T, Tsui EK, Reckrey JM, Sterling MR. Essential but excluded: building disaster preparedness capacity for home health care workers and home care agencies. JAMDA. 2022 Dec 1;23(12):1990-6.
Russell D, Fong M, Oude G, Lowenstein D, Haas M, Wiggins F, Brickner C, Franzosa E. Formative evaluation of a workforce investment organization to provide scaled training for home health aides serving managed long-term care plan clients in New York State. J Applied Gerontology. 2022 Apr 14.
Franzosa E et al. Perspectives of certified nursing assistants and administrators on staffing the nursing home frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Services Research. 2022;1–9.
Franzosa E et al. “At home, with care”: Lessons from New York City home‐based primary care practices managing COVID‐19. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2021 Feb;69(2):300-6.
Franzosa E, Tsui EK, Baron S. “Who's caring for us?”: Understanding and addressing the effects of emotional labor on home health aides' well-being. The Gerontologist. 2019;59(6).
Selected Presentations
Making home care work for all: real-world considerations for effective, affordable care policies. Symposium presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. 2025.
Honoring older adults’ desire to age in place: A research program to leverage home health aide services in veteran care. Collaborative on Caregiving Science Across the Lifecourse (CSAL). March 2025.
From research to practice: Informing long term care policy through economic evidence. Gateway Long Term Care Conference. Washington, DC, Nov 2023.Supporting an Aging Population: Perspectives from the Hill. AWARD Network webinar, April 5, 2023.
Advancing urban health equity in the age of health care gentrification: An expanded framework for understanding health care access. Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability/MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Barcelona, Spain, Sept 2021.
Service, Appointments and Honors
Dan Gilden Creative Investigator Award, American Academy of Home Care Medicine (2024)
Senior Research Fellow, The LeadingAge LTSS Center @ UMass Boston (2025-present)
Senior Research Fellow, The New Jewish Home Research Institute on Aging (2022–Present)
Member, Working Group on Aging, NYS Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (2024)
Member, New York State Master Plan on Aging Workgroup (2023-24)
Leadership Council, NIA Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network (2022-present)
Founder/Convener, Gerontological Society of America Paid Caregiving Interest Group (2021-present)
Education
Doctor of Public Health, CUNY Graduate Center/Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, NYC
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (American Studies concentration), CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Bachelor of Arts in English & Theater, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY