Jun 5
HMS Event
Sankofa: Looking Back to Go Forward in Racism and Mental Health Research
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Time: 2:30 - 4 p.m.
Location: Hybrid - Zoom and Room 106/107, 614 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., PhD is a professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and associate director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. Dr. Neblett is one of the leading U.S. scholars in the area of racism and health, with a particular focus on understanding how racism-related stress influences the mental and physical health of African American young people. In his newest research, he conducts community-based participatory research with an eye toward developing and implementing interventions, programs, and policies that can: 1) address the mental health consequences of individual, cultural, and structural racism; 2) improve health; and 3) promote health equity. Dr. Neblett's research has been funded by the NationalInstitute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He teaches courses on race, ethnicity, and mental health and population health determinants and disparities, and is the Incoming Editor of Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. Dr. Neblett received the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP) Distinguished Career Award in 2022 and, in 2021, was named the inaugural recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health James Jackson Memorial Award. In 2017, he was awarded the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. Dr. Neblett earned his Sc.B. from Brown University and his M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2006.
This event is co-hosted by the HMS Center for Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and DICP.
