We focus on promoting physical, mental, and social well-being in communities that are particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes.
Research Interest :
- Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Social Inequalities, Racism, and Health
- Racial Discrimination and Group Identity
- Psychoneuroimmunology and Cell Aging
- Stress Physiology
Current Research Projects:
- Psychosocial Stress and Lupus Among African American Women
- Psychobiology of Racial Minority Stress and Cellular Aging
- Interdisciplinary Rural African American Aging Research
- Contemporaneous and Early Life Predictors of Sleep and Sleep Disparities Among College Students
- Reducing Black Men’s Drug Use and Co-Occurring Negative mental and Physical Health Outcomes: Intersectionality, Social - Structural Stressors, and Protective Factors
