Isaac Longobardi is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree in social anthropology from Harvard College (magna cum laude). At Harvard, he was an Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics Undergraduate Fellow, and his senior thesis—a first-hand ethnographic study of home health care in the United States—received both the Hoopes Prize and the Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the English Language.

Isaac is focused on transforming long-term care services and delivery models to better support individuals with frailty, chronic illness, and mental and behavioral health conditions, as well as the communities in which they live. From 2022 to 2025, with funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation, he helped launch and served as director of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition. The national initiative brings together representative nursing home stakeholders to advance recommendations from The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality, a landmark report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to that, he piloted multigenerational living (residing in an independent senior living community) while working as youth and community engagement coordinator at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Boston-based elder services nonprofit. Isaac’s writing and speaking on aging and long-term care includes a Substack on his experience in multigenerational living, as well as multiple co-authored policy publications and national conference presentations.

He grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and New York City, where early volunteer work with organizations like Goddard Riverside, Henry Street Settlement, and NYC’s Department for the Aging shaped his commitment to care-centered public service. He enjoys running, cooking, and exploring the arts (from opera to film to creative nonfiction).