CONTRIBUTOR:

Carol Levine

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Fellow

DEPARTMENT:

INSTITUTION:

United Hospital Fund

BIOGRAPHY:

Carol Levine is a Senior Fellow at the United Hospital Fund (UHF), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization based in New York City. At UHF she created the Families and Health Care Project, which developed projects aimed at facilitating collaboration among patients, families, and medical personnel, especially at times of transition. Before joining UHF, she created the Orphan Project, which studied children of parents with HIV/AIDS. For her extensive work in the early years of HIV/AIDS, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has written or edited several books, among them Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving, which she compiled and edited (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014). She wrote Navigating Your Later Years for Dummies (Wiley and AARP, 2018). She has also published widely in medical journal and mainstream media.