Rosalie Gilford, PhD
Rosalie Gilford, PhD is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Fellow in the Institute of Gerontology at California State University (CSU), Fullerton where she taught and conducted research in aging, and served as founding faculty and director of the gerontology Minor, Professional Certificate, and Master's Degree academic programs.
She has developed, taught, and evaluated gerontology curriculum for the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, California State Office of Vocational Education, Southern California College of Optometry, and advised the Alzheimer's Association, American Cancer Society, and California Employee Pharmacist Association on gerontological training of health service providers.
She (with others) has been instrumental in organizing CSU gerontology faculty to offer online for-credit gerontology courses in the CSU system. Results of her ongoing research on gerontology instruction have been presented in invited testimony before California State legislative hearings and published in Educational Gerontology, Generations, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, and Optometric Education.
Dr. Gilford has been a member of the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics (CCGG) since its founding in 1981. She was instrumental in developing the CCGG bylaws and establishing relationships with the legislature in Sacramento.
She serves on the CCGG Board of Directors and represents the Board as Chair of the Education Committee of the California Coalition for Caregivers; and as a member of the Senior Falls workgroup of the California Department of Health Services Plan for Injury Prevention and Control.
She has Chaired and still serves on the CCGG Annual Meeting Planning Committee; she was Founding Chair and still serves as member of the Awards Committee. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work and Gerontology & Geriatrics Education.
Dr. Gilford holds the PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California where she was a National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development predoctoral Fellow in Aging.
