JAMES S. JACKSON
Professor, Psychology.
Director, Institute for Social Research.
Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics.
Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education.
Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology.
James S. Jackson is Director of the Instititute for Social Research and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute on Aging. His research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among African Americans. Research efforts include carrying out a number of national surveys and one international survey of black populations. Teaching centers on social factors in health, race and racism, and sources of misdiagnosis in black populations.
Funded Aging Projects
- Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging (NIA)
- Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NIMHD)
- MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society (MacArthur Foundation)
- Understanding Health Disparities in the Progression of Type 2 Diabetes (NCMHD)
- Race Difference in Physical and Mental Health Disparities: (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Expansion (NCRR)
- Michigan Center for African American Aging Research AASIST Supplement (NIA)
- Macarthur Foundation Aging Society Research Project (MacArthur Foundation)
- Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NCMHD)
- National Survey of American Life (NIMH)
- Trajectories of Subjective Well-Being and Ethnicity in Old Age (NIA)
- Social Relations and Mental Health (NIA)
- Family Connection Across Generations and Nations (NIA)
- Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities (NIMH)
Publications
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