About Me

Tracy Wharton, PhD, MSc(Oxf), MEd, MSW, LICSW, QCS

I am a clinician-scientist, with a focus on community-engaged outcomes. With degrees in psychology, social work, and social intervention/policy, my specialties are in public health, community empowerment, immigration, healthcare access, trauma-informed care, and geriatrics.

For 3 years, I served with the National Network of Public Health Institutes as the Principal Research Scientist for the Washington D.C. office. As a federal contractor and implementation partner managing nearly $7million in federal funding, my team and I brought communities together across 208 counties in 45 languages to identify community-based solutions and actions for health equity. Please check out the Guide to Advancing Health Equity that our team published together.

Previous to joining NNPHI, I was a tenured Associate Professor of Social Work and Coordinator of the Social Work/ Public Affairs PhD at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, with a secondary joint appointment to the UCF College of Medicine and affiliate appointment to the Disability, Aging, & Technology Faculty Cluster. 

Interested in learning more? My full bio and CV are available at: http://tracywharton.com