SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 1, 2021
1. Research on older Black men: What we should know!
2. Health and aging research and practice as social justice
3. We are here: Being visible, staying visible
4. Excelling as BIGG in motherland.
5. Leveraging community engagement for aging research and practice
6. Social determinants of health, health disparities, and cancer
Meet our speakers (in alphabetical order)
- Antonius Skipper, Ph.D (Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University)
- Aisha C. Young (African Americans in Gerontology)
- Aysha Cooper (McKinley Caregiver Resource Center)
- Blessing Ojembe (McMaster University)
- Christopher Howard, Ph.D (The Utah State Hospital)
- Christopher Osuafor, M.D (Royal College of Physicians of Ireland)
- Crystal Glover, Ph.D (Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center)
- Glenda Wright (Director of the New Jersey Public and Subsidized Housing program)
- Isaac Ddumba (ARCAD)
- Fayron Epps, Ph.D (Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University)
- H. Shellae Versey, Ph.D (Fordham University)
- Issac Ddumba (African Research Center for Ageing & Dementia)
- Jennifer Manly, Ph.D (Institute for Research in Aging & Alzheimer’s disease at Columbia University)
- Kalisha Bond Johnson, Ph.D (Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University)
- Manka Nkibeng, Ph.D (School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)
- Reggie Tucker-Seely, Ph.D (ZeroCancer; USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology)
- Roland J. Thorpe Jr., Ph.D (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- Runcie Chidebe (Project PinkBlue)
- Tamara Baker, Ph.D (UNC School of Medicine)