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Shifting Pain: Black Men, Masculinities, and Behavioral Health in Times of Uncertainty

Wizdom Powell, PhD, MS, MPH
Thursday, December 09, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Wizdom Powell, PhD, MS, MPH
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds

Wizdom Powell, Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UConn Health, serves as the President of the American Psychological Association, Division 51 Men and Masculinities, and is an honorary professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Formerly, Dr. Powell was Associate Professor at Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health and Research Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Social Medicine. Dr. Powell also served as Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity Research, 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 Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in which she provided subject matter expertise 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 outcomes and healthcare inequities. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book. In addition to being a White House Fellow, she is an American Psychological Association (APA) Minority, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Permanente Burch, Institute of African American Research, and Ford Foundation Fellow who received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Clinical Psychology and MPH from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 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 boys and men, she received the American Psychological Association's (D51) Distinguished Professional Service Award. In 2015, she received the prestigious Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Outstanding Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Dr. Powell was awarded a 2017 academic writing residency at the Bellagio Center from the Rockefeller Foundation where she worked with other global leaders on strategies for transforming social and healthcare system landscapes to address gendered health inequities among vulnerable males. Most recently, she was selected as a Health Innovator Fellow by the Aspen Institute.
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