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2024-2029 Elevating efforts to recruit and retain HBCU scholars in the aging field
National Institute on Aging R13
Role: MPI; MPI: Tamara Baker-Thomas and Candidus Nwakasi
2023-2025 Sleep and Alzheimer’s disease risk among older African Americans
Alzheimer’s Association - AARFD
Role: Principal Investigato
2023-2027 Early characterization of determinants of brain health and AD risk in older African American men.
National Institute on Aging K99/R00.
Role: Principal Investigator
2022-2024 Exploring the pathways to Alzheimer’s Disease in older African American men.
Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD).
Role: Principal Investigator
2022-2023 Cross-validation of risks for Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans with Yoruba people of West Africa.
National Institute on Aging RO1 supplement.
Role: Co-Investigator; PI, Mark Gluck; MPI, Adesola Ogunniyi
2022-2023 A University-Church Partnership to Promote Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness, Risk Reduction, and Research Participation in Older African American Men.
New Jersey Health Foundation
Role: Co-Investigator; PI, Mark Gluck
2022-2023 Comparison of Alzheimer’s Disease risk between African Americans and Yoruba people of West Africa Rutgers Global International Collaborative Research Grants.
Role: Co-Investigator; PI, Mark Gluck
2021-2023 An evaluation of cancer survivorship in Black and Latinx cancer survivors in Rhode Island.
NIH-Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (RI-INBRE)
Role: Consultant; PI, Candidus Nwakasi
2020 Identity negotiation and integration among Black Americans diagnosed with chronic illness.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grant-in-Aid
Role: Principal Investigator
2020 Incorporating service-learning component into a social determinant of health course.
Internal Education Foundation grant (IEF), Union College
Role: Principal Investigator
2020 Piloting an equity-based cancer intervention program for low-income communities.
Faculty Research Grant (FRG), Union College
Role: Principal Investigator
2019 Eldercare obligation in the context of modernity.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Research Excellence Initiative, University of Kansas
Role: Principal Investigator
2016/8 Contextual variation in the experience of eldercare.
University of Kansas Psychology Department Summer Research Fellowship
Role: Principal Investigator
2017/9 Social determinants of cancer detection among African American men.
University of Kansas Jack Brehm Basic Research Award in Social Psychology
Role: Principal Investigator
2017 Conception of relationality as a predictor of eldercare.
Psychology Strategic Initiative Grant (PSIG), University of Kansas
Role: Principal Investigator
2017 As you are, I will become: Conceptions of Relationality and Wellbeing as Predictors of Eldercare.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grant-in-Aid
Role: Principal Investigator