tford21@nul.org

Tiffany N. Ford is a mixed methods public policy and public health researcher and advocate. She conducts intersectionality-based policy analysis to explore racial and race-gender structural inequality in social, economic, and health arenas. She earned her Ph.D. with a concentration in social policy from the University of Maryland College Park School of Public Policy in May 2021. There, her dissertation research explored the Black women’s subjective well-being paradox and explored policy interventions to support Black women’s well-being in the U.S. Tiffany also works as a research analyst in the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at the Brookings Institution, where her work focuses on American middle-class well-being and upward mobility.

Tiffany attended the University of Miami (#theU) as an undergrad, where she majored in human and social development and economics. She earned her Master of Public Health with a concentration in community health sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to beginning her doctoral program, Tiffany worked as a senior policy analyst for health reform and health equity at a social justice-oriented policy research think tank in Chicago. There, her health equity research and advocacy bridged the gap between protest movements, the social and structural determinants of health, and policy interventions at institutional, systems, local, and state levels.

Tiffany’s broad view of health informs her diverse array of work, which has covered topics such as: subjective well-being (life satisfaction, optimism, and stress); overpolicing and its effects on the health workforce; defunding the police and investing in public education; racial equity in mobility; and gentrification and displacement.