Manhood and Black Men's Health 50 Years After "I AM a Man"

Talk given by Derek M. Griffith, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society and Director, Center for Research on Men's Health at Vanderbilt University

When: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 from 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Where: Ritter Annex, room 992

Dr. Griffith specializes in African American men’s health and has published extensively on men’s health. His research has been funded by the American Cancer Society, the Aetna Foundation and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health. Currently, Dr. Griffith is conducting two interventions: (1) a randomized-controlled trial of the first individually tailored weight loss intervention for African American men, which was funded by the American Cancer Society; and (2) the first psychologically and biologically tailored weight loss intervention for African American and Latino men as part of a NIMHD-funded U54 center on precision medicine and health disparities.