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June 2015                    
 

Did You Know?

 

CRECH director participated in health disparities conference


CRECH Director Cleopatra H. Caldwell recently spoke at the Xavier University's Health Disparities Conference in New Orleans.  Her talk was titled,  Effectively Merging Community Knowledge and Expertise into Health Disparities Research and Practice.   READ MORE>
Presentations by Dr. Caldwell that you might be interested in
 

February 2015

Masculinity and Co-parenting Behaviors among Nonresident African American Fathers given at the American Association for the Advancement of Science  Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA.
 

March 2015

Enhancing Racial Identity in African American Boys through a Parenting Program for Nonresident Fathers given at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
 

May 2015

Improving Preadolescent African American Boys' Prosocial Attitudes about Sex through Enhancing Parenting among their Nonresident Fathers given at the Society for Prevention Research 23rd Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Logan Tuley-Tillman, Harold Neighbors, Jumanne Lee, and Tom Reischl attend the Men's Fellowship Dinner at First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor 
 
Harold "Woody" Neighbors was the guest speaker at the Men's Fellowship Dinner on May 8, 2015 speaking on Man Up Man Down: What "Real Men" (should) Do in Times of Trouble.  Dr. Neighbors is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. 
 
Watch the talk here:

 
A celebration of the current CRECH scholars and the four newly-minted PhDs was held at Harold "Woody" Neighbors' home last April.  Denise Carty, Katrina Ellis, Dayna Johnson, and Alana LeBron received a Certificate of Achievement Award for Excellence in Addressing Racial and Ethic Health Disparities from the CRECH Doctoral Research Training Program. 

 

              

Nicole Dennis, Landon Barber, and Heather Scriven


CRECH Summer Internships!

On June 8th CRECH welcomed three undergraduate students, Landon Barber, a McNair Scholar at DePaul University, Nicole Dennis and Heather Scriven from Hampton University, to experience an eight-week research internship in the CRECH lab.  These interns will have exposure to the research process (introduction to research methods, quantitative and qualitative approaches), intervention research, scientific communication, research ethics, and responsible conduct of research.  They are also working on their individual research projects in the areas of perceived social support and health service utilization, the role of intersectionality in race and gender with implications for psychological well-being, and correlates of academic achievement as a social determinant of health.  For more information on the CRECH Summer Internship Program contact Lynda Fuerstnau at  ljfirsti@umich.edu.

 
Unequal Burdens of Loss: Examining the Frequency and Timing of Homicide Deaths Experienced by Young Black Men Across the Life Course by Jocelyn R. Smith, PhD, Paul B. Cornely Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and  Health (CRECH), University of Michigan, School of Public Health. As Dr. Smith nears the end of her two-year Cornely Postdoctoral position, we are pleased to share with you her latest publication that explores the complex experience of traumatic loss of peer homicide lived through for Black men and the need for trauma-and grief-informed interventions.  Her research results also identified the need to examine the physical and psychosocial consequences, coping resources and strategies, and developmental implications of traumatic loss for young Black men in urban contexts. 


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Parental support may protect young women against obesity.  Dr. Shervin Assari, research investigator of psychiatry and a faculty mentor at the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health and co-authors Health Behavior and Health Education faculty members, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell and Marc Zimmerman, report that African-American daughters in their 20s who receive emotional and moral support from their mothers are less likely to become obese.     
 
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