Karon Phillips, PhD, MPH, MS, CHES

Policy Development Manager, Trust for America's Health

2011 Fellow

Dr. Karon Phillips is a public health gerontologist working in the Washington, D.C. area, as the Policy Development Manager at Trust for America's Health. Dr. Phillips has significant experience conducting and coordinating a variety of coalition building and programmatic activities to promote healthy aging. In addition, she has extensive training in community-based interventions and developing community-based partnerships. Along with facilitating the addition of new programs and services, she has developed and led numerous research projects and multi-site needs assessments in several communities that serve older adults.

Dr. Phillips’ Health and Aging Policy Fellowship placement in 2011-2012 was split between Senator Sherrod Brown’s office and AARP. In Senator Brown’s office, she researched public health funding in Ohio. While at AARP, she examined preventative screening guidelines for adults age 50 and older and reviewed nursing home utilization trends among racial/ethnic minority older adults. Before the fellowship, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor Scott & White in Temple, TX, where she received the National Institute of Health-Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program Award. Dr. Phillips completed her Master of Public Health (Health Policy and Management concentration) and her PhD in Aging Studies from the University of South Florida.

Areas of Interest

Program Info

Program Track
Residential

Placement
Office of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, and American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)