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Topic: African-Americans

Relevant Issues of Findings Magazine

Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD Associate Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education Phone: (734) 647-3176 E-mail: cleoc@umich.edu Faculty Profile Areas of expertise include social networks and supports; better health outcomes among adolescents; network interventions; family relationships; cultural factors associated with the health behavior and health status of adolescents, men, and women. MORE
Harold W. Neighbors, Ph.D. Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education Phone: (734) 647-6665 E-mail: woodyn@umich.edu Faculty Profile Research interests and areas of publication include psychiatric epidemiology with an emphasis on ethnic and cultural influences on the assessment (diagnosis and case-finding) of mental disorder, and the utilization of informal and professional services by African Americans. MORE
Ken Resnicow, Ph.D., B.A. Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education Phone: (734) 647-0212 E-mail: kresnic@umich.edu Faculty Profile Focuses on motivational interviewing in health care settings and peer interventions, and application of chaos and complexity science to behavior change. MORE
Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 24 Number 2	Anatomy of a Disease: Type 2 Diabetes Midlife Research News: Food & Transitions
Fall/Winter 2008 Volume 24 Number 1	Their Town: The Kids of Flint, Michigan
Fall/Winter 2007 Volume 23 Number 1	Stalking the Beast: Cancer
Fall/Winter 2006 Volume 22 Number 1	Future Findings-- Racism's Toll on Health
Fall/Winter 2005 Volume 21 Number 1	Depression: Public health researchers are finding new ways to diagnose, treat, and ultimtely prevent this disabling disease.
Spring/Summer 2005 Volume 20 Number 2	When Fathers and Sons Spend Time Together, they grow rich "with love, caring, understanding, quality time, and sharing," says one graduate of a novel project that has changed the lives of nearly 200 families in Flint, Michigan. (PDF)
Spring/Summer 2004 Volume 19 Number 2	Hot Flashes and Other Midlife Myths. With an unprecedented $80 million nationwide research project focusing on women at midlife, scientists are not only saying the "menopause" in public, they're finding out what it really means (PDF). Alumni Network (Clifton Dummett, DDS)-- An outspoken critic of racial segregation looks back on his long fight for equality (PDF, page 36)
Spring/Summer 2003 Volume 18 Number 2	Fat of the Land: What public health is doing to combat the obesity epidemic in the United States (PDF, page 8-17)

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