The African American Studies Department invite you to attend the following: A Research Presentation “Disrupting Single Stories About Black Male Health Equity”

When:
Mon, Feb 29, 2016 - 7:15AM
to
Mon, Feb 29, 2016 - 9:00AM

Where:
1102 Taliaferro Hall College Park, MD 20742

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The African American Studies Department invite you to attend the following:

A Research Presentation

“Disrupting Single Stories About Black Male Health Equity”

With Dr. Wizdom Powell

This talk will describe a research agenda devoted to exploring intersections between masculinity, race-related factors, and health outcomes among Black men.

Bio:

Wizdom Powell is Associate Professor of Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Powell is also faculty member at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the UNC’s Men’s Health Research Lab. In 2011-2012, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as a White House Fellow to the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. In this role she served as Special Advisor on Military Mental Health (e.g., PTSD, Suicide, and Military Sexual Trauma). Her community-based research focuses on of the role of modern racism and gender norms on African American male health and healthcare inequities. In addition to being a White House Fellow, she is an American Psychological Association (APA) Minority, Institute for African American Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Permanente Burch, and Ford Foundation Fellow who received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Clinical Psychology and M.P.H. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.  In recognition of outstanding dissertation research, Wizdom received APA’s Division 51 (D51) Loren Frankel Award. She serves as chair of the APA’s workgroup on Health Disparities in Boys and Men and co-chair of the Health Committee for President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative in Durham County. In recognition of her public service to young males of color, she received the American Psychological Association’s (D51) Distinguished Professional Service Award. Most recently, she received the prestigious Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Outstanding Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty.