Dana Burr Bradley is Dean of the Erickson School and a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy at UMBC. She leads the Erickson School in its mission of creating new knowledge, leaders, and opportunities in the longevity economy.
Dr. Bradley's research involves questions surrounding creating capacity for policy and service initiatives in aging across space and time. A leader in the Age-Friendly Cities movement, she worked with the City of Bowling Green, KY, in its work on Age-Friendly Cities. Internationally, she has focused on issues of long-term care and the longevity economy in Asia and most recently completed the first phase of work on transnational caregiving in New Zealand. She's excited about bringing the WIGL (Women in Gerontological Legacy) project to a new generation of scholars and invites you to view the first phase of interviews on the YouTube WIGL channel. An engaging and energetic speaker, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies to bring evidence-based strategies to improve the lives of elders and their families in the workplace.
Dr. Bradley believes that leadership, which means suggesting "the possible" and crafting an environment of "the probable," is essential to her. Most recently, she served as Chair of the Academy of Gerontology in Higher Education and has served as President of the Southern Gerontological Society (SGS) and Secretary of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She is a founding Trustee of the Vision Centre and serves on many editorial boards.
A skilled strategist with proven successes in increasing resources necessary to sustain high-impact education and community-based research in aging, she prefers to think outside of the circle.
Specialties: Interdisciplinary perspectives on aging policy and the longevity economy, demonstrated the ability to create and sustain innovative organizations bridging research and practice and strong visioning skills.