Bio
Anthony Traver, MSW, LCSW, is a doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University College of Social Work and a research associate with the OSU Age-Friendly Innovation Center and The Center of Housing and Homeless Research at the University of Denver. With clinical experience in substance use treatment and housing programs for the homeless, he studies the manifestation and resolution of housing insecurity among older adults. Anthony has led projects about housing as a determinant of health in later life, “aging in the right place”, and the impact of guaranteed income on older homeless adults. Anthony was a 2023–24 AGE-SW Pre-Dissertation Fellow. He completed advanced quantitative training at the ICPSR summer program and earned a graduate minor from the Department of Statistics. He is the first author of a quantitative article published in The Journal of Aging and Environment and a qualitative manuscript recently revised for publication in a special issue of The Gerontologist. He has co-authored three journal articles and two technical reports. He has led six conference oral paper presentations and chaired two symposia. Anthony’s dissertation, funded through a $47,000 grant from the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, uses a randomized controlled trial to measure the causal impact of shallow rental subsidies on the housing stability and well-being of housing-insecure older adults. He received the 2024 SSWR Grand Challenges of Social Work: End Homelessness Doctoral Award. Anthony has independently taught BSSW-level research methods and MSW-level substance use theory. He earned the 2024 OSU College of Social Work Erlen Award for his outstanding record of service, academics, and scholarship. He is expected to graduate in May 2025.
Research Interests
Aging
Homelessness and housing
Poverty alleviation