Brooke Hollister, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Research Leader of the Center for Care Research, South (University of Agder, Norway), and an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her teaching and research focus on aging health and social policy issues including: long term care, Social Security, Medicare, the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, Alzheimer’s disease supports and services, disability, mental health, care transitions, and the use of mHealth and broadband-technology to promote the heath and wellness of older adults. She has over 20 years of experience conducting research on aging health and social policy issues, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in community-based participatory research and program evaluation. Dr. Hollister is a co-editor of Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the US Health Care Delivery System (6th Ed., 2012), and Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the campaign against entitlements (2009). Dr Hollister's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Administration for Community Living, and California Department of Public Health. She has served as principal investigator (PI) on 14 projects totaling more than $4 million (~35 million NOK).

Dr. Hollister was a 2012-13 Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with a placement in Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington, DC where she worked on a variety of health policy issues including the implementation of the ACA and the design of the financial alignment initiative for dual eligible in California.