Jasmine Travers Altizer

Jasmine Travers Altizer, PhD, MHS, RN, FAAN is an assistant professor of nursing at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She leads a program of research focused on improving care and outcomes for underserved older adults and those who care for them, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her current work examines disparities in access to and use of long-term care services, including home-based care, community programs, nursing homes, and assisted living.

Travers Altizer is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded R01 examining the relationship between staffing patterns and outcomes for residents living with dementia. She also holds a five-year Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leader K76 Award from the National Institute on Aging. In this mixed-methods study, she is developing and testing a novel survey instrument designed to identify unmet needs that disproportionately drive avoidable nursing home placements.

Travers Altizer served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, which released the landmark report The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality in April 2022. She has also delivered two congressional testimonies on the state of long-term care and its workforce.

Travers Altizer has published widely on topics including aging, long-term care, health disparities, workforce issues, vaccinations, and infections. She regularly presents her work at regional and national health services research, gerontological, nursing, and public health conferences.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU Meyers, Travers Altizer completed postdoctoral training through the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University and a T32-funded fellowship at the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Travers Altizer earned her PhD from Columbia University School of Nursing, MHS from Yale University, MSN in Adult-Gerontological Health from Stony Brook University, and BSN from Adelphi University.