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Teresa Scherzer, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Sociology
Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences
3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612
Email: teresa.scherzer@ucsf.edu
My research program centers around applied Sociology and program evaluation. My major interests are informed by the reproduction of social and health inequalities, and include the organization of work and worker/patient/client health, carework, and the study of occupations and professions. I use both qualitative and quantitative research methods in my work.
Current
Evaluation of payments to parent and spouse caregivers, advance pay, and restaurant vouchers, under California's IHSS Plus Waiver Program (Bob Newcomer, PI; Scherzer, Co-PI). Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health & Human Services.
R01, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); Robert Newcomer, PI; Scherzer, Co-PI). Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance services workers.
Past
Research Faculty Grant, Institute for Labor and Employment, University of California. (PI). Data analysis of the Las Vegas Hotel Room Cleaners Study. Funding period: 7/1/02-6/30/03.
Robert Wood Johnson Health Disparity Fund, Center for Health and Community, University of California (PI). Literature review and grant proposal on health consequences of work-related insecurity. Funding period 11/1/04-5/30/05.
Development of a Life Course Events Measurement Tool, UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (Irene Yen, PI; Scherzer, qualitative researcher, 5% effort). Funding period: 9/1/04 - 8/31/05.
Neighborhood influences on all-cause mortality, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (Marilyn Winkleby, PI; Irene Yen, Subcontractor; Scherzer, qualitative researcher). Funding period: 6/1/2005 - 12/31/2005.
Faculty Research Grant, School of Nursing, UCSF (PI). Work-Related Injury Among Personal Assistance Services Workers. Funding Period: 5/1/05 - 4/30/06. Funding Period: 5/1/05 - 4/30/06.
Faculty research grant, University of California Labor and Employment Fund (PI). Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Services Workers: The Impact of Institutional Arrangements. Funding period: 07/01/05-6/30/06.
Assessment of State PAS Worker Injury Reporting Infrastructure (Newcomer, PI; Scherzer, Co-PI). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Funding period: 11/01/05-06/30/06.
Individual Investigator Award, UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Research (PI). Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Services Workers [non-English-speaking workers]. Funding period: 03/01/06-2/27/07.
2007-now, AcademyHealth working group on consumer direction and long term care
2006-now, Carework Network, Steering Committee member
2004-now, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Social Activism Award Comm.
2004, Carework Network, Session Organizer and Presider
2004, California Work and Health Study Group, Summary paper reviewer
2000, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Presider
1998, Pacific Sociological Association, Session Organizer
My teaching has focused on mentoring several doctoral students, some of whom I directly supervise through formal arrangements, and some with whom informal mentoring relations developed during the past year.
(1993) Distinguished Graduate Student Achievement Award, San Francisco State Univ.
(1996) High Pass, Qualifying Examination, Sociological Theory, UCSF
(1997) Regents Fellowship, UCSF
(1998-2000) Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Predoctoral Fellowship, UCSF
(1999) Graduate Student Research Award (Dissertation Support)
(2000-2001) University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, B.A., Religious Studies
San Francisco State University, M.S.W., Social Work
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., Sociology
University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Peer-reviewed publications
Scherzer, T. (1998).
Domestic violence in lesbian relationships: Findings of the lesbian relationships research project.
Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2(1), pp. 29-47. Special Issue on Health, ed. Christine Ponticelli.
Scherzer, T. (2000).
Negotiating health care: The experiences of young lesbian and bisexual women.
Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 2(1), pp. 87-102.
Murrell, N. L., Scherzer, T, Ryan, M., Frappier, N., Abrams, A., and C. Roberts. (2000).
The AfterCare Project: An intervention for homeless childbearing families.
Family and Community Health, 23(3), pp. 1-12.
Scherzer, T and H. L. Pinderhughes. (2002). Violence and gender: Reports from an urban high school.
Violence and Victims, 17(1), pp. 57-72.
Scherzer, T. (2003). The race and class of women's work: Reproducing inequalities in hospital nursing.
Race, Gender & Class, 10(3), pp. 23-41.
Scherzer, T., Rugulies, R., and N. Krause (2005).
Work-related pain, injury, and barriers to workers' compensation among Las Vegas hotel room cleaners.
Am J Public Health, 95(3), pp. 483-488.
Abstract (with link to PDF for APHA members): http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/3/483
Krause, N., Scherzer, T., and R. Rugulies. (2005).
Physical workload, work intensification, and prevalence of pain in low wage workers:
Results from a participatory research project with hotel room cleaners in Las Vegas.
American J Industrial Medicine, 48(5), pp. 326-337.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112098026/ABSTRACT (Full text requires UCSF campus connection.)
Scherzer, T, Wong, A., and R. Newcomer. (2007).
Fiscal Management Services in consumer-directed programs.
Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 27(1), pp. 29-42.
Scherzer, T. & R. Newcomer. (2007).
Barriers to Documenting Occupational Injury Among Personal Assistance Service Workers.
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 50, pp. 536-44.
Aust, B., Rugulies, R, Skakon, J. Scherzer, T., and C. Jensen. (2007).
Psychosocial work environment of hospital workers: Validation of a comprehensive assessment scale.
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 44(5), pp. 814-825.
doi:10.1016./j.ijnurstu.2006.01.008 [published Online First: 20 March 2006].
Rugulies, R., Scherzer, T., and N. Krause.
Associations between psychological demands, decision latitude and job strain with smoking among female hotel room cleaners in Las Vegas.
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. (In Press).
Yen, I.H., Scherzer, T., Cubbin, C., Gonzalez, A., & M. Winkleby.
Women's perceptions of neighborhood resources and hazards related to chronic disease risk factors:
focus group results from economically diverse neighborhoods in a mid-sized US city.
American Journal of Health Promotion. (In Press).
Scherzer, T, and N. Wolfe. Barriers to workers' compensation and medical care for injured Personal Assistance Services workers.
Home Health Care Services Quarterly. 27(1) (In Press).
In review
Yen, I. H., Stewart, A. L., Scherzer, T., and E. Perez-Stable.
Older adults' perspectives on key domains of childhood economic and educational experiences: A new conceptual framework.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
Scherzer, T, and N. Wolfe. How can consumer-directed personal care programs address problematic work situations?
The Gerontologist.
(2005 - present) UCSF School of Nursing Diversity in Action Group (DIVA).
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