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Center for Integrative Approaches
to Health Disparities
May 14 – 16, 2014
Symposium for Junior Investigators
Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center 400 Renaissance Drive
Detroit, Michigan 48243 313-568-8000
www.ciahd.org
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities The goal of the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) is to promote and support research that comprehensively integrates social and biological factors within a multilevel framework in understanding the determinants of minority health and health disparities. Persistent and pronounced differences in health by race/ethnicity exist for multiple health outcomes. Despite repeated documentation of these disparities, there is still substantial debate on the driving forces behind them. Through research projects, pilot grants, and dissemination activities CIAHD aims to promote integrative approaches that lead to more complete understanding and more effective policies and interventions. CIAHD is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the Jackson Heart Study (through its two partners, Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi Medical Center). Visit our website at www.ciahd.org. For more information contact [email protected] or call 734-763-5974.
SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE - May 15, 2014 LOCATION: Detroit Renaissance Hotel, Detroit, MI DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME SESSION MODERATORS/SPEAKERS 8:00 – 8:45 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:45 – 9:00 General Session: Nicolet A & B
WELCOME / INTRODUCTIONS / SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW
• Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean, Drexel School of Public Health
• Ricardo A. Brown, PhD, Dean, School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University
• Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core
• Amy Schulz, PhD, Co-Director, Community Engagement and Outreach Core • Donna Antoine-LaVigne,MSeD, MPH, PhD, Co-Director, CIAHD,
Community Engagement and Outreach Core - JHS
9:00 – 12:00
MORNING SESSION
MODERATOR: Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core
9:00 – 9:50 Keynote Address: New Directions in Health Disparities
Research
Eugenia Eng, PhD, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jennifer C. Schaal, MD, Member of the Board for The Partnership Project, an anti-racism organization in Greensboro, NC
9:50 – 10:00 BREAK
10:00 – 10:40 Communicating about Genetics
with Communities and the Public
Understanding the Role that CBPR Can Play in Genetics
Research
Designing Gene-Environment Studies to
Inform Efforts to Reduce Disparities
Sharon Kardia, PhD, Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core, Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Public Health Genetics Program, and Director of Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health
10:40 – 11:20 11:20 – Noon
Vence Bonham, JD, Senior Advisor to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH, Director of Genomics and Health Disparities, Associate Investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, Division of Intramural Research, and Branch Chief of the Education and Community Involvement Branch at NHGRI Alexandra Shields, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities
12:00 – 1:00 Room – 42DN
LUNCH
SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE - May 15, 2014 LOCATION: Detroit Renaissance Hotel, Detroit, MI DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME AFTERNOON SESSION MODERATORS/SPEAKERS 1:00 – 1:05 General Session: Nicolet A & B
WELCOME / OVERVIEW OF SESSION
MODERATOR: Barbara Israel, MPH, PhD, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UM-SPH, Director, Detroit Urban Research Center, Co-Director CIAHD Community Engagement Outreach Core
1:05 – 1:45 Policy Significant Research: An Example
Renee Canady, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of the Michigan Public Health Institute
1:45 – 2:25 CBPR and Policy Implications
Tanya Funchess, PhD, Director, Health Disparity Elimination, Mississippi State Department of Health
2:25 – 3:05 CBPR and Policy Advocacy
Meredith Minkler, PhD, Professor of Health and Social Behavior in the School of Public Health, UC-Berkeley and Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for National and Community Service
3:05 – 3:10
Closing – Preview May 16, 2014
3:10 – UNTIL
NETWORKING / FREE TIME
9:00 – 11:00
HOSPITALITY SUITE, ROOM - 6412
SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO - MAY 16, 2014 LOCATION: Detroit Renaissance Hotel, Detroit, MI DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME MORNING SESSION MODERATORS/SPEAKERS
8:00 – 9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 9:00 – 9:10 General Session: Nicolet A & B
WELCOME / OVERVIEW OF THE DAY
MODERATOR Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core
9:10 – 10:20
SENIOR SCHOLARS FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION
• Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean Drexel School of Public Health
• James S. Jackson, PhD, Co-Director CIAHD, Director, Institute for Social Research, Daniel J. Katz Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
• Carlos Mendez de Leon, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator CIAHD, Professor of Epidemiology , Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan
• Ricardo A. Brown, PhD, Dean, School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University
10:20 – 10:30
BREAK
10:30 – 11:30
MID-CAREER PANEL DISCUSSION
• Derek Griffith, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University
• Elizabeth Lynch, PhD, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine Graduate College, Rush University
• Latetia Moore Freeman, PhD, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion at CDC
• Krim Lacy, PhD, Research Investigator, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
11:30 – 12:30 Duluth A & B
CAREER DEVELOPMENT ROUNDTABLES
• TABLE 1: Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
• TABLE 2: Assistant and Associate Professors
• TABLE 3: CBPR and Health Disparities Research
• TABLE 4: CBPR and Policy Implications
• TABLE 5: Engaging Communities in Research
12:30 – 1:30 Room - Waterfront
NETWORKING LUNCH – include location
1:30 – 2:00
WRAP-UP / NEXT STEPS / EVALUATION
BIOGRAPHIES CIAHD Steering Committee
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Drexel University School of Public Health Director and Principal Investigator, CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Diez Roux is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Drexel School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel she was Chair of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public
Health. Dr. Diez Roux has been an international leader in the investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Recent areas of work include social environment-gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America. She has been a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Factors and Health and is a Co-Director of the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health. Diez Roux has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees including most recently the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) of the National Center for Health Statistics, the Committee on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment of the International Council for Science (ISCUS) and the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Public Health. She was awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Award for her contributions to public health by the American Public Health Association. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Diez Roux received an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
James S. Jackson, PhD Director and Research Professor Institute for Social Research Professor of Psychology and Health Behavior and Health Education University of Michigan Co-Director CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Director of the Institute for
Social Research, all at the University of Michigan. He is also the Co-Director of CIAHD. His research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life-course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora. He is past Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and past national president of the Black Students Psychological Association and Association of Black Psychologists. He is the
recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association, and recently received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Jackson is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted, “The National Survey of American Life.” He is also directing the “The Family Survey across Generations and Nations” and the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation supported “National Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Politics.” He serves on several Boards for the National Research Council and the National Academies of Science and is a founding member of the new “Aging Society Research Network” of the MacArthur Foundation.
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, Director Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Principal Investigator CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Mendes de Leon is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public
Health, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was first an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Internal Medicine (Epidemiology) and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. From 2008-2010, he served as Director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. Before joining the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging in 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale University School of Public Health. Dr. Mendes de Leon is a social epidemiologist with a primary interest in the major health problems and health disparities in late life. His work focuses on a broad array of social and psychological determinants that affect the development and progression of disability, cognitive decline and other common, age-related health outcomes. Specific areas of interest include the role of neighborhood-level social processes and environments in late-life health, and the complex interplay between life-course social conditions and biological processes and their functional consequences in older age. His current studies focus on the role of neighborhood contexts and inflammatory processes in social disparities in late-life disability and cognitive impairment. In other research, he is investigating the cumulative and interactive effects of racial background and life-course socio-economic disadvantage in subclinical disease and disability in older adults. He is an active member in professional organizations in the fields of gerontology, epidemiology, and behavioral medicine, and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals in these disciplines.
Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, AM, MA Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Director CIAHD Research Training and Education Core Email: [email protected]
Dr. Caldwell is an Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE, SPH), a Faculty Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at The Institute for Social Research, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with the Prevention Research Center of Michigan (PRC), Youth Violence Center of Michigan and she is the current Director of the Center for Research on
Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) at SPH. Dr. Caldwell has been the PI, Co-PI or Co-I on several NIH or CDC funded studies examining family and environmental factors influencing risky health behaviors and mental health among Black adolescents. She also conducts family-centered, youth preventive intervention research using a CBPR approach. Recently, she has been examining environmental factors and fathers’ contributions to birth outcomes in Black families as part of a multidisciplinary research team to broaden the health disparities focus in birth outcomes research. Dr. Caldwell brings a wealth of research training and mentoring experiences to the CIAHD Director of Training position. She was Chair of the HBHE Doctoral Curriculum Committee, which oversees the matriculation of doctoral students. She has worked with the CRECH Doctoral Education Training Program since it began in 2000. She is the current Director of the Summer Health Disparities Research Immersion Program for the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) and Co-Director of the Training and Education Core for the CDC funded University of Michigan Injury Center. She has received several research mentoring and diversity awards, including awards from the University’s Office of the Provost, the University Research Opportunity Program, and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award from the University of Michigan.
Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS Professor Epidemiology Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Prinicipal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 2 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Aiello is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina - Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her Ph.D. with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University-Mailman School of Public Health and was the recipient of the Ana C. Gelman award for outstanding achievement and promise in the field of epidemiology. Her research investigates psychosocial, socioeconomic and race/ethnic disparities in health, the relationship between infection and chronic diseases, and prevention of infection in the community setting. She has identified relationships between psychosocial determinants and immune response to infection and helped uncover social disparities in the burden of infection and immune response to cytomegalovirus in the US population. Currently, Dr. Aiello is the PI of several NIH funded studies where she is examining social, behavioral, biological, and genetic determinants of health outcomes.
Donna Antoine-LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD Associate Director Community Partnership / Outreach Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University Co-Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core - JHS Email: [email protected] Dr. Antoine-LaVigne is the Associate Director of the Jackson State University Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Coordinating Center. In this role she contributes significantly to the development and implementation of novel strategies that ultimately resulted in the recruitment of 5,301 JHS
participants. Currently, Dr. Antoine-LaVigne is very much involved with the retention efforts of the study to maintain 85% of the living cohort. Under Dr. Antoine-LaVigne's leadership, the linkages and partnerships established include, but are not limited to: faith and community based organizations; business groups; governmental (city and state agencies) and private non-profit organizations; and for profit entities. Through her efforts, local volunteers and JHS outreach staff have been trained and certified as community health advisors (CHAs) to provide cardiovascular health education, chronic
disease self- management, nutrition, and physical activity. In her role with the JHS, Dr. Antoine-LaVigne collaborates on research studies that have a community engagement component with other Universities including, University of Michigan, University of Alabama @ Birmingham, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Over the past thirty years, Dr. Antoine-LaVigne has developed and implemented local and statewide coalitions in Mississippi and provided leadership in the development of the Mississippi HIV Care and Services Plan and the Mississippi Health Disparities Elimination Plan. She has served on national committees to address health care disparities elimination. She has held faculty positions at Southern Illinois University and Jackson State University and studied at the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburg and Johns Hopkins University. Her great joy is her three grandsons, Joseph 10, Matthew 5, and Daniel (or Big D) as his older brothers reverently call him.
Frances C. Henderson, RN, Ed.D. Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at Alcorn State University Special Assistant to the JHS Principal Investigator/Project Director Email: [email protected] Dr. Henderson serves as the Evaluation Consultant for the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD). She is engaged with the project team in designing and implementing a participatory evaluation plan. Dr. Henderson has served as an Evaluation Consultant for a variety of projects over the
last 20 years, including nursing workforce diversity projects. She has over 20 years of experience conducting focus groups and interpreting focus group interviews, individually and as a member of an interpretive team. She received her initial education and experience in interpretive phenomenology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She was a member of the interpretive team that interpreted the focus group and individual interviews of the Participant Recruitment and Retention Study that was conducted during the feasibility phase of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). Dr. Henderson was formerly Deputy Director for the JHS, and currently serves in a Consultant role. She is Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Nursing, Alcorn State University in Natchez, Mississippi.
Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Israel is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She has published widely in the areas of: the social and
physical environmental determinants of health and health inequities; the relationship among stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Israel has extensive experience conducting CBPR in collaboration with partners in diverse communities. Since 1995, she has worked together with academic and community partners to establish and maintain the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. The Center involves multiple NIH and Foundation-funded basic etiologic research and intervention research projects aimed at increasing knowledge and addressing factors associated with health inequities in Detroit. Dr. Israel is actively involved in several of these CBPR projects examining and addressing, for example, the environmental triggers of childhood asthma, the social and physical environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, access to food and physical activity spaces, and capacity building for and translating research findings into policy change.
Sharon LR Kardia, PhD Senior Associate Dean for Administration Professor, Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Kardia is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor of Epidemiology, Director
of the Public Health Genetics Program, and Director of Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research interest is in the area of genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. Dr. Kardia also serves as the Co-director of the Michigan Center for Genomics & Public Health.
Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD Associate Professor, Biostatistics School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics in 2006 from Harvard University. She joined the University of Michigan in 2006 as an Assistant
Research Professor, and became an Assistant Professor in 2008. Her research interests are in statistical methodology applicable to environmental epidemiology, and social epidemiology, and health disparities. Dr. Sánchez’s current methodological work involves developing robust fitting procedures and diagnostics for Structural Equation Models, and using these methods in applications to environmental health problems such as in-utero lead exposure and its effect on child development. She also conducts research on study design for longitudinal studies, in particular the design of studies involving salivary cortisol as a measure of stress in health disparities research. Dr. Sanchez also investigates the applicability of various functional data methods to studies of salivary cortisol. Her collaborative research spans environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology, and health disparities in the areas of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and the distribution of body mass index. Within environmental epidemiology, her work focuses on the impact of lead and air pollution exposure on birth outcomes, and child development and behavior. Her work on health disparities and social epidemiology has included the analysis of the effectiveness of school level interventions to reduce child obesity, among others.
Amy Schulz, PhD Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public HealthUniversity of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Community Engagement and Outreach Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Schulz is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH). She has been engaged in ongoing
etiologic and intervention research in Detroit, examining social and physical environmental determinants of health, and designing, implementing and evaluating interventions to address them, for over 15 years. She has contributed to the literature on social inequity and social determinants of health, including publications on conceptual frameworks for understanding social determinants of health in urban settings and multiple publications examining pathways and processes linking social inequalities to health inequities. Dr. Schulz has served as the Principal Investigator for the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership, a community-based participatory research partnership focused on understanding and addressing the environmental factors that contribute to racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health inequities in Detroit, since 2000. In that capacity, she has conducted etiologic research on the social determinants of cardiovascular risk; and engaged in community based participatory planning processes to design, implement and evaluate interventions to reduce cardiovascular health inequities. Dr. Schulz has considerable experience working with and facilitating community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, and is a leading contributor to the literature on engaging community, academic and public health practice partners in participatory research and intervention efforts. She currently serves as PI for the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership (NIMHD); Multi-PI (with Dr. Stuart Batterman) for the Community Approaches to Promoting Healthy Environments (NIEHS), a research to action project focused on reducing exposure to air pollution in Detroit; Co-Lead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease (PI: Diez Roux), a Center of Excellence focused on social determinants of cardiovascular disease (NIMHD), and Co-Lead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core for the Environmental Health Core Center (PI: Loch-Caruso) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
BIOGRAPHIES Opening Session
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Drexel University School of Public Health Director and Principal Investigator, CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Diez Roux is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Drexel School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel she was Chair of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Dr. Diez Roux has been an international leader in the investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Recent areas of work include social environment-gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America. She has been a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Factors and Health and is a Co-Director of the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health. Diez Roux has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees including most recently the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) of the National Center for Health Statistics, the Committee on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment of the International Council for Science (ISCUS) and the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Public Health. She was awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Award for her contributions to public health by the American Public Health Association. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Diez Roux received an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Ricardo A. Brown, PhD Dean, School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University Email: [email protected] Dr. Brown is the Dean of the College of Public Service at Jackson State University in Mississippi. He is a veteran administrator and cardiovascular physiologist who has worked with the National Institutes of Health and led programs to open higher education pathways for underrepresented populations. He previously served as assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University System of Maryland and chief academic programs officer at the Universities at Shady
Grove, which is part of the system. From 2002 to 2008, he was health scientist administrator/minority health and health disparities coordinator for the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He is an expert on the cardiovascular effects of alcohol consumption.
BIOGRAPHIES Keynote Address: New Directions in Health Disparities Research
Geni Eng, MPH, DrPH Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Email: [email protected] Dr. Eng is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has over 30 years of CBPR
experience including field studies conducted with rural communities of the U.S. South, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia to address socially stigmatizing health problems such as pesticide poisoning, cancer, and STI/HIV. Her CBPR projects include the NCI-funded Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity, the CDC-funded Men as Navigators for Health, the NCI-funded Cancer Care and Racial Equity Study, the NHLBI-funded CVD and the Black Church: Are We Our Brother’s Keeper? In addition to her co-edited book, Methods for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, she has over 120 publications on the lay health advisor intervention model, the concepts of community competence and natural helping, and community assessment procedures.
Jennifer C. Schaal, MD Co-Chair Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative Greensboro, North Carolina Email: [email protected] Dr. Schaal is a member of the Board for The Partnership Project, an anti-racism training organization in Greensboro, NC. She is a founding member of the Greensboro Health Disparities
Collaborative for which she has served as Co-Chair, and currently as Secretary, and is guiding the development of Healthcare Equity Training. She has been an active participant in the development and implementation of the Collaborative’s Health Equity Training. She is a CBPR partner with Geni Eng for the NCI-funded Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity. For the NCI-funded Cancer Care and Racial Equity Study, she conducted and analyzed data from Critical Incident Technique interviews. Before retiring in 2006 from a small private practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she was a clinical investigator for the Heart and Estrogen-Progestin Replacement study and Estrogen Replacement and Atherosclerosis study and served on the Community Advisory Board of the Women’s Health Initiative.
BIOGRAPHIES Morning Panel: Epigenetics Research and CBPR
Sharon LR Kardia, PhD Senior Associate Dean for Administration Professor, Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Kardia is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of
the Public Health Genetics Program, and Director of Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research interest is in the area of genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. Dr. Kardia also serves as the Co-director of the Michigan Center for Genomics & Public Health. Topic: Communicating about Genetics with Communities and the Public
Vence Bonham Jr., JD Senior Advisor to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH, Director of Genomics and Health Disparities, Associate Investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, Division of Intramural Research Branch Chief of the Education and Community Involvement Branch at NHGRI Email: [email protected] Mr. Bonham is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI), and Director of Genomics and Health Disparities, Associate Investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, Division of Intramural Research, and Branch Chief of the Education and Community Involvement Branch at the NHGRI. He is a health care services and policy researcher whose work is at the intersection of public policy, health care and genetics. His research, conducted within the Public Health Genomics Section, focuses primarily on the social influence of new genomic knowledge, particularly in communities of color. Mr. Bonham is interested in how genomic discoveries influence social identity, how genomics might influence the use of the constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research, and the role of genetics and genomics in understanding racial and ethnic health disparities. Mr. Bonham is leading the Physicians' Understanding of Human Genetic Variation Study, a large, multi-year research project whose goal is to investigate factors that influence health care providers' decisions about the provision of genetic services. Mr. Bonham and his colleagues are currently undertaking a large national survey of primary care physicians using the newly developed Health Professionals Genetic Education news tool. All of Mr. Bonham's research projects actively involve trainees. As Branch Chief of the Education and Community Involvement Branch, he leads NHGRI’s public outreach and community involvement initiatives, which include outreach to communities, including those that are underserved in biomedical research participation. Topic: Understanding the Role that CBPR Can Play in Genetics Research.
Alexandria E. Shields, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Director, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities Email: [email protected] Dr. Shields is an Associate in Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Faculty in Molecular and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute. In addition, Dr. Shields is
Co-Director of the Health Disparities Research Program at the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. Her doctoral training is in health policy and she has an academic background in Systematic Theology. A primary focus of her research is the challenges of clinical integration of new genomic medicine and technologies into clinical practice, with a focus on the impact of these changes on minority and underserved populations. She also studies critical ethnical issues in genomics research design, including the use of race constructs in genomics research and the inclusion of environmental measures vital to understanding health disparities in gene-environment interaction studies. Dr. Shields has conducted several national surveys addressing the preparedness of primary care physicians to incorporate genomic medicine into practice more generally, access to established genetic tests at safety new provider sites, and consumers’ willingness to undergo genetic testing. She is an Executive Committee member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s Reduction of Cancer Risk and Disparities Program and she serves on advisory boards of several NIH and university-based research initiatives addressing genomics and health disparities. Topic: Designing Gene-Environment Studies to Inform Efforts to Reduce Disparities.
Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Director, CIAHD Community Engagement and Outreach Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Israel is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She has published widely in the areas of: the social and
physical environmental determinants of health and health inequities; the relationship among stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Israel has extensive experience conducting CBPR in collaboration with partners in diverse communities. Since 1995, she has worked together with academic and community partners to establish and maintain the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. The Center involves multiple NIH and Foundation-funded basic etiologic research and intervention research projects aimed at increasing knowledge and addressing factors associated with health inequities in Detroit. Dr. Israel is actively involved in several of these CBPR projects examining and addressing, for example, the environmental triggers of childhood asthma, the social and physical environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, access to food and physical activity spaces, and capacity building for and translating research findings into policy change. Dr. Israel is the moderator for this panel.
Renee Canady, PhD Chief Executive Officer Michigan Public Health Institute Okemos, MI Email: [email protected] Dr. Canady is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI). She is responsible for setting the next phase of strategic direction for MPHI. She will establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and funders and continue to build a
world-class infrastructure to support MPHI’s programs and projects. She is the former Health Officer (Director) of the Ingham County Health Department (ICHD) overseeing all public health operations. She provided leadership for implementing the statutory responsibility to protect and promote the health of county residents in Ingham County, Michigan. She has also served as ICHD’s Deputy Public Health Officer where she was responsible for programs focused on Family and Outreach services, Health Equity and Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Neighborhood Engagement and Breast and Cervical Cancer Control. Dr. Canady is a Medical Sociologist by training with research interests focused on social determinants of health, cultural competence, and the social context of mental and physical illness in women. She has researched and published in these areas and she is a much sought after speaker on these topics. Dr. Canady is a former fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH and the American Sociological Association. She is currently a University Outreach and Engagement Community Senior Fellow at Michigan State University, elected in 2013 and she received the Anna McKeever Hilliard Visionary Award from the Michigan Minority Health Coalition in 2009. Topic: Policy Significant Research: An Example.
BIOGRAPHIES Afternoon Panel: Transforming Health Disparities Research into Policy: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Michigan, Mississippi and Beyond
Tanya Funchess, DHA, MPH, MSM Director, Health Disparity Elimination Mississippi State Department of Health Jackson, MS Email: [email protected] Dr. Funchess is the Director of Health Disparity Elimination, Mississippi State Department of Health. She joined the Mississippi State Department of Health 12 years ago and has a strong
background in tobacco control, community engagement, and policy development. She has been the Director of the Tobacco School Nurse Program and Division Director of the CDC Core Tobacco Grant. She was instrumental in forming the Mississippi Tobacco Control Network and she currently works as the Bureau Director for the Office of Tobacco Control. Dr. Funchess is excited about starting a CBPR Fellows Program this summer. Topic: CBPR and Policy Implications.
Meredith Minkeler, MPH, DrPH Professor, Health and Social Behavior Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, CA Email: [email protected] Dr. Minkeler is a Professor of Health and Social Behavior at the School of Public Health, Community Health and Human Development, University of California, Berkeley (UCB). She is the former Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for National and Community Service at UCB, Co-
chair of the Faculty Policy Committee, Academic Service Learning, Founding Director, of the UCB Center on Aging, and a Research Consultant with PolicyLink. Well-known for her community-based participatory research (CBPR) scholarship, Dr. Minkeler is co-author of the first major study on CBPR in the health field. Her current research interests include CBPR and its impacts on policy. Topic: CBPR and Policy Advocacy.
BIOGRAPHIES Senior Scholars Panel
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Drexel University School of Public Health Director and Principal Investigator, CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Diez Roux is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Drexel School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel she was Chair of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr.
Diez Roux has been an international leader in the investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Recent areas of work include social environment-gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America. She has been a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Factors and Health and is a Co-Director of the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health. Diez Roux has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees including most recently the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) of the National Center for Health Statistics, the Committee on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment of the International Council for Science (ISCUS) and the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Public Health. She was awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Award for her contributions to public health by the American Public Health Association. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Diez Roux received an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
James S. Jackson, PhD Director and Research Professor Institute for Social Research Professor of Psychology and Health Behavior and Health Education University of Michigan Co-Director CIAHD Email: [email protected]
Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Director of the Institute for Social Research, all at the University of Michigan. He is also the Co-Director of CIAHD. His research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life-course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora. He is past Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and past national president of the Black Students Psychological
Association and Association of Black Psychologists. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association, and recently received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Jackson is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted, “The National Survey of American Life.” He is also directing the “The Family Survey across Generations and Nations” and the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation supported “National Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Politics.” He serves on several Boards for the National Research Council and the National Academies of Science and is a founding member of the new “Aging Society Research Network” of the MacArthur Foundation.
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, Director Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-Principal Investigator CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Mendes de Leon is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public
Health, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was first an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Internal Medicine (Epidemiology) and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. From 2008-2010, he served as Director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. Before joining the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging in 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale University School of Public Health. Dr. Mendes de Leon is a social epidemiologist with a primary interest in the major health problems and health disparities in late life. His work focuses on a broad array of social and psychological determinants that affect the development and progression of disability, cognitive decline and other common, age-related health outcomes. Specific areas of interest include the role of neighborhood-level social processes and environments in late-life health, and the complex interplay between life-course social conditions and biological processes and their functional consequences in older age. His current studies focus on the role of neighborhood contexts and inflammatory processes in social disparities in late-life disability and cognitive impairment. In other research, he is investigating the cumulative and interactive effects of racial background and life-course socio-economic disadvantage in subclinical disease and disability in older adults. He is an active member in professional organizations in the fields of gerontology, epidemiology, and behavioral medicine, and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals in these disciplines.
Ricardo A. Brown, PhD Dean, School of Health Sciences Jackson State University Jackson, MS Email: [email protected] Dr. Brown is the Dean of the College of Public Service at Jackson State University in Mississippi. He is a veteran administrator and cardiovascular physiologist who has worked with the National Institutes of Health and led programs to open higher education pathways for underrepresented
populations. He previously served as assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University System of Maryland
and chief academic programs officer at the Universities at Shady Grove, which is part of the system. From 2002 to 2008, he was health scientist administrator/minority health and health disparities coordinator for the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He is an expert on the cardiovascular effects of alcohol consumption.
Derek M. Griffith, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine and Public Health Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Email: [email protected] Dr. Derek Griffith is the Director of the Institute for Research on Men’s Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. He also has appointments as an Associate Professor of Sociology and General Internal Medicine and Public Health, and he
is a member of the Program on Effective Health Communication; the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; and Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Griffith is a leading social scientist who focused on social influences on men’s health and racial and ethnic health disparities. He specializes in interventions to improve African American men’s chronic disease risk behaviors often using a community-based participatory research approach. In November 2013, Dr. Griffith was presented the Tom Bruce Award by the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association in recognition of his leadership in community-based public health and for his research on “eliminating health disparities that vary by race, ethnicity and gender.” Dr. Griffith has published over 50 papers and book chapters, and his research has been funded by several institutes within the National Institutes of Health and foundations such as the American Cancer Society and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. His research has been featured in such news outlets as MSN, NPR, Time Magazine, US News & World Report and USA Today.
Elizabeth B. Lynch, PhD Assistant Professor Preventive Medicine, Graduate College Rush University Email: [email protected] Dr. Lynch received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Northwestern in 2000 and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and
Prevention in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She joined the faculty of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Rush as an Assistant Professor of Community and Social Medicine in 2008. Dr. Lynch’s research focuses on the psychosocial factors associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors, as well as the development of behavioral interventions to improve health-related behavior in low-income African American adults and other high risk populations.
BIOGRAPHIES Mid-Career Panel
Latetia Moore Freeman, PhD Epidemiologist National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA Email: [email protected] Dr. Moore is an Epidemiologist in the Nutrition Branch in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She focuses primarily on local food environment research and surveillance activities. Dr. Freeman’s research interests
involve investigating the association of the local food environment with neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics, food availability, and dietary quality and the assessment of other social determinants that may influence the diet and health status of the U.S. population.
Krim K. Lacey, PhD Research Investigator Program for Research on Black Americans Research Center for Group Dynamics Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Email: [email protected] Dr. Lacey is a Research Investigator with the Program for Research on Black Americans' at the
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. His primary research interest is in the area of domestic violence with a secondary focus on education. Dr. Lacey's research involves the examination of risk factors as well as the impact of violence on the health and well-being of abuse victims. Beyond these areas, Dr. Lacey's research spans a variety of subfields including health and mental health, disabilities, race/ethnicity, inequality, culture, migration, and incarceration. Dr. Lacey earned his doctorate in sociology at Wayne State University and received his post-doctoral training from the University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Program for Research on Black Americans under the tutelage of Dr. James S. Jackson who continues to provide mentorship.
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Collaborators/ Advisor (s) Email
Deja Abdul-Haqq Environmental & Policy Manager
My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. Jackson, MS
DeMarc Hickson [email protected]
Jamie Abelson, MSW Senior Research Associate Program for Research on Black Americans, RCGD, ISR University of Michigan
James Jackson [email protected]
Sandra Albrecht, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ana Diez Roux, Penny Gordon-Larsen
Donna Antoine-Lavigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD
Associate Director Community Partnership/Outreach Jackson Heart Study; Co-Director CIAHD-CEOC
Jackson Heart Study Jackson State University
Shervin Assari, MD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow CRECH, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Cleopatra Caldwell
Sharrelle Barber, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Public Health, Drexel University
DeMarc Hickson, Ana Diez Roux
Judy Belue Delta Fresh Foods
Jackson, MS DeMarc Hickson [email protected]
Amanda Berry Clinical Research Coordinator University of Mississippi Medical College
Azad Bhuiyan Epidemiology & Biostatistics Jackson Heart Study Jackson State University
Larry Bielak, D DS, MPH
Assistant Research Scientist
Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan School of Public Health
Vence Bonham Jr., JD, Speaker
Senior Advisor to the NHGRI National Institutes of Health Besthda, MD
Allison Brenner, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Kristen Brown, MSc PhD Student
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Laetita Brown, BA Doctoral Student
Department of Sociology University of Texas at Austin
Marc Music, Deb Umberson, Bob Hummer, Ben Carrington
Ricardo A. Brown, PhD, Speaker
Dean School of Public Health Sciences Jackson State University
Crystal Butler Project Administrator University of Mississippi Medical Center/Jackson Heart Study
Othor Cain Director of Media and Communications
Hinds County Sheriff’s Office, Mississippi
DeMarc Hickson [email protected]
Cleopatra H. Director of CRECH Health Behavior Health [email protected]
PARTICIPANTS [alphabetical order]
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Collaborators/ Advisor (s) Email
Caldwell, PhD, MA, AM (CIAHD TEOC Director), Moderator
Associate Professor Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Renee Canady, MPA, PhD, Speaker
Chief Executive Officer Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, MI
Erin Case, BA Research Area Specialist, Intermediate
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Corvell Coburn [email protected]
Mary Crump, RN, MSN, MPH, CRRN, CCM
Clinic Manager Jackson State University/Jackson Heart Study
Rochelle Culp [email protected]
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD (CIAHD Director and Principal Investigator)
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean
School of Public Health, Drexel University
Geni Eng, MPH, DrPH, Speaker
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
Regina Fields, MBA Business Manager Jackson Heart Stuy/Jackson State University
Marty Fortenberry Community Outreach/Engagement Specialist
JHS Jackson State University Community Outreach Center
Tanya Funchess, DHA, MPH, MSM
Director, Health Disparity Elimination
Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, MS
June Gipson President/CEO My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. DeMarc Hickson [email protected]
Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Panelist
Associate Professor Medicine, Health and Society Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine Associate Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Carina Grunlund, PhD
Dow Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux Marie O’Niel
June Hardwick, JD Municipal Court Judge City of Jackson, Mississippi DeMarc Hickson [email protected]
Theresa Hastert, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux Ana Baylin
Frances C. Henderson, RN, Ed.D
Dean Emeritus, CIAHD-COEC
School of Nursing, Alcorn State University
Maggie Hicken, MPH, PhD
School of Public Health; CSEPH University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux, James Jackson
DeMarc Hickson, PhD
Research Assistant Professor/Biostatistician
My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. Jackson, MS
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Saundra Hill [email protected]
Barbara A. Israel, MPH, PhD (CIAHD COEC Co-Director)
Professor Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Collaborators/ Advisor (s) Email
James S. Jackson, PhD (CIAHD Co-Director)
Director and Research Professor Institute for Social Research Professor of Psychology and Health Behavior and Health Education
Institute for Social Research and Department of Psychology University of Michigan
Dayna Johnson, MPH, MSW, MS
PhD-Candidate
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Sharon LR Kardia, PhD (CIAHD Research Core Co-Director), Speaker
Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Kiarri Kershaw, PhD Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Chicago
Ana Diez Roux, James Jackson
Jamila Kwarteng, PhD
Graduate Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Amy Schulz [email protected]
Krim Lacey, PhD, Panelist
Research Investigator
Program for Research on Black Americans, ISR, University of Michigan
James Jackson [email protected]
Nsombi Lambright, MPP
Program and Development Director
One Voice, Mississippi
Hedwig Lee, PhD Assistant Professorof Sociology
Department of Sociology, University of Washington
Felice LeSherban, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Epidemiology, SPH
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
TenèLewis, PhD Associate Professor School of Public Health Emory University
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Elizabeth B. Lynch, PhD, Panelist
Assistant Professor
Preventive Medicine, Graduate College, Rush University
Pamela McCoy Communications and External Relations Manager
Jackson State University/ Mississippi Urban Research Center
Dorothy McGill Chief Executive Officer Innovative Behavioral Services, Inc.
Dr. Donna Antoine-LaVigne,
Anniece McLemore State Ombudsman Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services
Helen Meier, BA, MPH
PhD-Candidate
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan School of Public Health
Allison Aiello, Carlos Mendes de Leon
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD (CIAHD co-PI)
Professor Epidemiology, Director Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Meredith Minkeler, DrPH, MPH, Speaker
Professor Health and Social Behavior Berkeley School of Public Health
Latetia Moore Freeman, PhD, Panelist
Epidemiologist Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Sam Mozee, Jr., PhD Associate Director for Research Jackson State University / Mississippi Urban Research Center
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Collaborators/ Advisor (s) Email
Mahasin Mujahid, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Belinda Needham, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Arnita Norwood, PhD, MPH, Rd
Program Manager University of Mississippi Medical College/Jackson Heart Study
Nicole Novak, MSc PhD Student
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Darcel Odom Jackson State University [email protected] Marinelle Payton, MD, PhD, MS, MPH
Assistant Dean for Research and Program Development, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director and Principal Investigator, Institute of Epidemiology ad Health Services Research and Center of Excellence in Minority Health
Jackson State University, College of Public Service, School of Health Sciences
Loni Phillip Tabb, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Drexel University, School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Jane Rafferty, MA Research Area Specialist Sr. Program for Research on Black Americans, RCGD, ISR University of Michigan
James Jackson [email protected]
Sarah Reeves, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Lynda Lisabeth [email protected]
Amanda Richardson, MPH
PhD Student
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD,
Associate Professor CIAHD Co-Director of Research Core
Biostatistics University of Michigan
Jennifer C. Schaal, MD, Speaker
Co-Chair Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative, Greensboro, North Carolina
Amy Schulz, PhD Professor CIAHD Co-Director of CEOC
Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Alexandria Shields, PhD, Speaker
Director of Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics Vulnerable Populations Health Disparities and Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School Harvard University
Mario Sims, PhD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine Special Assistant to the Director Science Officer, Jackson Heart study
University of Mississippi Medical College /Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, MS
Ana Diez Roux, Herman Taylor, Sharon Wyatt
Jaime Slaughter-Acey, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Public Health Drexel University
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, MA
Assistant Research Scientist
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux, Sharon Kardia
Jocelyn Smith, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow CRECH, School of Public Health Cleopatra [email protected]
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Collaborators/ Advisor (s) Email
University of Michigan Caldwell Sherry Stephens-Gibson, MPH, MCHES, Dr.P.H.
DrPH-Candidate Jackson State University, Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, MS
Donna Antoine-LaVigne
Alyce Stewart, BS, MPH
DrPH-Candidate
Department of Behavioral and Environmental Health, School of Health Sciences College of Public Service Jackson State University
Donna Antoine-LaVigne
Myra Tetteh, MPH Research Area Specialist Intermediate
Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Amy Schulz [email protected]
Nhan Truong, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology
Tougaloo College [email protected]
Nicole Vaughn, PhD Assistant Professor Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Xu (Steven) Wang, MS
Data Analyst/Programmer Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan
Ana Diez Roux [email protected]
Mary Wesley, MPH Epidemiologist Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, MS
Gregory Wilson, Sr, MA, PhD (ABD)
Senior SAS Programmer Analyst Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University
Clevette Woodberry Jackson State University [email protected]
Lavon Young Jackson State University [email protected]
STAFF TITLE INSTITUTION PHONE NUMBER EMAIL
Cassandra Brooks Assistant to Dr. Caldwell University of Michigan [email protected]
Amanda Dudley CIAHD Project Coordinator University of Michigan [email protected]
Lynda Fuerstnau Event Coordinator University of Michigan Office: 734-647-6665 [email protected]
Denise MacFarlin Assistant to Dr. Caldwell University of Michigan [email protected]
Supported by Award Number P60 MD002249 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Jackson Heart Study