News Release

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April 7, 2005

Annette Totten, researcher with the Center on Aging at the University of Minnesota, has been named the director of the new Center for the Study of Aging (CSA) at Boise State University. Totten assumes her new responsibilities on Monday, April 11. The CSA is a collaboration between the College of Health Sciences and the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.

James Girvan, dean of the College of Health Sciences, said that establishing the CSA at Boise State provides a visible mechanism to link the academic community with public and private partners in order to elevate the importance of aging issues in Idaho and beyond. “Gerontology by its very nature is interdisciplinary,” he said. “To that end, the CSA also facilitates collaboration between and among professionals in a variety of academic disciplines to help propose, study and evaluate policies and procedures that foster healthy aging and create an enhanced quality through the lifespan.”
 

Totten earned her Ph.D. in health services research and policy at the University of Minnesota. She has extensive experience as a researcher in gerontology and health care issues at Columbia University, where she was responsible for oversight of evaluation studies for the New York State Department of Health, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; New York University, the University of Minnesota and the Hartford Foundation, among others.

She is passionate about issues related to senior citizen health, both urban and rural, and is focused on helping the university community become a more involved, assistive and responsible partner with local, state, regional and national organizations that concentrate their mission on aging.
 

Totten is a co-author of “Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness,” published by John Hopkins University Press, and has published several journal articles. She is currently a consultant for The Commonwealth Fund in New York City and the State Health Assess Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota.

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Contacts:

James Girvan, College of Health Sciences, (208) 426-44116, jgirvan@boisestate.edu,

Michael Blankenship, College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, (208) 426-3776, mblanken@boisestate.edu

Media Contact:

Kathleen Craven, University Relations, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005