Leah Rohlfsen

Dr. Leah Rohlfsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Public Health. She came to SLU after receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology from Arizona State University and her BA from Luther College. Her research focuses on the social determinants of comfort at the end of life. She has also examined gender disparities in physical, mental, and self-rated health among older adults and occupational turf battles in the health care professions. She was awarded the Susan B. Anthony Aetna Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women by the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association. She regularly supervises students as CARE Fellows at Comfort Care Homes for the dying. On campus, she serves as Chair of the Institutional Review Board for research with human participants. She regularly teaches courses on aging, death and dying, women's health, medical sociology, and research methods.