Achieving Equity in the Diagnosis of Black Men’s Distress and Depression
The goal of the study is to refine how we understand, diagnose, and treat Black men in need of mental health services.
Derek M. Griffith, Ph.D. is the Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor in the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At Pennsylvania, he also is a Fellow and Senior Advisor on Health Equity and Anti-Racism for The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Dr. Griffith also serves as the Chair of Global Action on Men’s Health and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health. Trained in psychology and public health, Dr. Griffith’s research focuses on achieving racial, ethnic, and gender equity in health. He specializes in interventions to promote Black men's health and well-being, and anti-racism interventions to mitigate and undo the effects of structural racism on health. He has been the principal investigator of research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Griffith is a contributor to and co-editor of three books, and his fourth co-edited book - Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional, 2nd Edition will be published in October 2024. Dr. Griffith has received four noteworthy honors: (a) Tom Bruce Award from the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association for his research on “eliminating health disparities that vary by race, ethnicity and gender”; (b) a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior for his significant contributions to the field of health behavior research; (c) one of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by the Cell Mentor’s Community of Scholars; and (d) a citation from the president of the American Psychological Association “For his extraordinary leadership in addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation and specifically for African American and Latino men”.
Authored by Derek M. Griffith, Ph.D.
Using Syndemics and Intersectionality to Explain the Disproportionate COVID-19 Mortality Among Black Men
In this commentary, researchers use syndemics to explain why Black men in the United States are dying disproportionately from COVID-19 and to guide a framework for efforts to mitigate their risk of dying from COVID-19.
Well-Being in Healthy People 2030: A Missed Opportunity
In the decade leading up to 2030, it will be important for health educators and other public health professionals to overcome the limitations of the ways well-being is incorporated in Healthy People 2030 to bring this broader focus on well-being to policy and programs to improve the nation’s health.
Promoting Men’s Health Equity
This editorial argues that more qualitative research is needed to evaluate the intended and unintended findings from interventions and highlights the benefits that men’s health equity can gain from embracing dissemination and implementation science as a tool to systematically design, implement, refine, and sustain interventions.