Faculty & Research
David Kennedy
Dave Kennedy is the Director of The Atlantic Philanthropies in Australia, an international philanthropy founded by Chuck Feeney, SHA ’56, dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of people who are disadvantaged. He is a former associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. He received a BA (Magna Cum Laude) from Assumption College, a MSc and a MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and a MPS and a PhD from Cornell University. He has taught on three continents – North America, Australia, and Asia, and has won a number of teaching awards included being named the Academic of the Year by the Griffith University Gold Coast Student Guild Association in 1999. His research has been published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the Gerontologist, Maturitas, the Journal of Housing for the Elderly, the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and the Journal of Public Health. In 2000 and in 2006, he received Best Paper Awards at the International CHRIE Conference. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, and is Australia’s leading seniors’ housing research grant recipient with total federal grants valued in excess of $3.2 million. Since 2000, he has been invited to give more than 25 speeches at national and international conferences on seniors' housing.