Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) White, APRN, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. She is a health services researcher focused on care quality and outcomes in long-term care. Her primary research interest is in understanding how factors affecting the nursing and primary care workforces impact care delivery and health outcomes for older adults, particularly people with dementia and people living in nursing homes. She has assisted in the development of two large-scale NIA-sponsored infrastructure projects that make new data sources available -- the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative (nursing home electronic health records) and the National Dementia Workforce Study (workforce surveys) -- to support enhanced research on care and outcomes in nursing homes and for people with dementia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. White also led multiple study teams examining COVID-19 treatment and outcomes in nursing homes. She completed an AHRQ T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Brown and an NINR T32 predoctoral fellowship in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. In addition to her research, Dr. White is an adult geriatric primary care nurse practitioner with extensive clinical experience working in long-term care and primary care. She currently practices in the Brown Medicine Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine.
