By The Harbinger Editorial Staff
Brian R. Grossman earned a B.A. in Psychology and Communication from Rutgers University; an M.S.P.H. in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health; and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the Department of Health Science as an Assistant Professor in the spring of 2010. Prior to this position, Dr. Grossman taught as a part-time lecturer for the Department, as well as for both the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in Gerontology at San Francisco State University.
In 2007, Dr. Grossman was awarded the Diversity Curriculum Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University for a course he developed entitled Disability and Inequality. Currently, he teaches HS 15 – Human Lifespan, GERO/HS 117 – Social Policies and Services in Aging, HS 140 – Human Sexuality, and HS 295 – Research Design and Methodology, and coordinates the fieldwork projects for the Gerontology Program. He is also one of the two undergraduate advisors for the Department of Health Science and the Concentration Coordinator for Option 3 (B.S. in Health Science with a Concentration in Gerontology). Dr. Grossman’s research is focused on disability and old age as categories of social, political, and economic exclusion, with a particular emphasis on both the construction of social identity and patterned experiences with social policies including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Through his work with the Center for Personal Assistance Services at the University of California, San Francisco he conducted research on the limited and disparate state coverage of services and supports that allow people with disabilities and older people to remain living at home and in their communities. Dr. Grossman’s research has been published in Aging and Social Policy, Health and Social Policy, Home Health Care Services Quarterly, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. He is co-editor of the volume, Social Insurance and Social Justice: Medicare, Social Security, and the Campaign Against Entitlements (Springer, 2009).
His current projects include: an interdisciplinary, qualitative study of concepts of health for Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley, a literature review of HIV prevention efforts for people over 50, and a theoretical analysis of the role of meritocracy in the social exclusion of people with disabilities. Dr. Grossman is a Fellow for Life with the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and is a founding Board Member of the Bay Area Schweitzer Fellowship (BASF). Dr. Grossman is co-chair of the Rainbow Scholars special interest group of the Gerontological Society of America and Program Chair of the Disability in Society section-in-formation for the American Sociological Association.
Dr. Grossman lives in the Castro district of San Francisco with his partner, Malcolm, and two freshwater fishtanks.
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