Who We Are

 Leadership

 
Derek M. Griffith, PhD
Director
derekmg@umich.edu

 

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness, PI
  • Exploring Factors Associated with Diet and Physical Activity among Older, Urban African American Men, PI
  • Implications for Self Determination Theory for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Urban, African American Men, PI
  • Men 4 Health, PI
  • Men 4 Health: Summer Research Supplement, PI
  • Men on the Move, PI

 
Harold W. Neighbors, PhD
Co-Director
woodyn@umich.edu

 

  • Man Up, Man Down!, PI


Julie Ober Allen, MPH
Managing Director
joallen@umich.edu

 

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
  • Exploring Factors Associated with Diet and Physical Activity among Older, Urban African American Men
  • Implications for Self Determination Theory for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Urban, African American Men
  • Men 4 Health
  • Men on the Move

 
Gyhandi L. Hill, BA
Community Outreach Coordinator
hillg@umich.edu
 

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
  • Implications for Self Determination Theory for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Urban, African American Men
  • Men 4 Health
  • Men on the Move


Faculty Affiliates

Joel Heidelbaugh, MD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Urology, UM Medical School

Daphne Watkins Jacobs, PhD
Assistant Professor, UM School of Social Work
Vice President, American Men's Studies Association

  • Women are from Venus, but What Can They Tell Us about Mars?  Black Women's Perceptions of Black Men's Depression, PI
  • Man Up, Man Down!, Co-PI

Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Director of the Program in Medicine, Health & Society, Vanderbilt University

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness, Co-PI

Larry Rowley, PhD
Assistant Professor, UM School of Education & Afroamerican and African Studies, LSA


Faculty, Staff, & Community Collaborators

E. Hill De Loney, MA
Director, Flint Odyssey House Inc., Health Awareness Center

  • Men 4 Health

Bettina Campbell, MSW
Executive Director, YOUR Center

  • Men 4 Health

Henry Gaines, BS
President, Genesee County Health Department's REACH U.S. Black Men for Social Change

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
  • Men 4 Health
  • Implications for Self Determination Theory for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Urban, African American Men

Katie Gunter, MPH, MSW
Former Research Associate, Center on Men's Health Disparities
Project Manager, University of Chicago

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
  • Men 4 Health

Mark Harris
Director and personal trainer for MAH Fitness

  • Men on the Move, Community Co-PI

Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, MPH, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Health Behavior & Health Education

Kent Key, DrPH (c)
Associate Director, Flint Odyssey House Inc., Health Awareness Center

  • Men 4 Health

Craig Kotajarvi, BS
ASCM Certified Health and Fitness Specialist for UM MHealthy

  • Men on the Move, Community Co-PI

Aisha Langford, MPH, PhD (c)
Manager of Community Outreach for the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Men on the Move

Catricia Thomas
Community Outreach for the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Men on the Move


Current Students

Kau'i Baumhofer, MA, MPH (c)

  • PRIME (affiliated project)

Katrina Ellis, MPH, MSW, PhD (c)

  • Men 4 Health
  • Men 4 Health: Summer Research Supplement

Jonetta Johnson, MPH, PhD (c)

  • Men 4 Health

Andrea King, MPH (c)

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness 
  • Men 4 Health
  • Men on the Move

Andrea Knittel, MD/PhD (c)

  • Incarceration and HIV Risk: Sexual Decision-Making and Sexual Networks in Urban African American Communities, PI

Douglas Manigault, BA (c)

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness

Ezinne Nwankwo, MPH (c)

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness

Alana Wooley, MPH, PhD (c)

  • Men 4 Health
  • PRIME (affiliated project)


Former Students

Areeta Bridgemohan, MPH

  • Men 4 Health

Juandalyn Coffen, MPH

  • Men 4 Health
  • Men on the Move

Hosam "Sam" Issa, BS (c)

  • African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
  • Men on the Move

Lisa A. Martin, PhD

  • Challenging Depression Criteria:  An Exploration of Men's Experiences of Depression, PI

Jen Sanchez, MPH

  • Men 4 Health

Firas Shalabi, BS

  • Men 4 Health

Tanisha Tate, MPH

  • Men 4 Health

Paul Zajciw, BA/BS (c)

  • Men 4 Health