Dr. Jamie Mitchell is an associate professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications on three interrelated lines of research focused on the health of African Americans: (1) barriers to high-quality cancer and chronic disease care for older Black men, (2) health communication and health self-management for older Black men, and (3) health research participation for Black older adults more broadly.

In her role as Co-Investigator of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), she helps to oversee the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core for a multi-university collaborative research infrastructure and co-manages a community advisory board and participant research registry of Black older adults at the Healthier Black Elders Center in Detroit. In addition, she is principal investigator of a grant from the National Institute on Aging at NIH, titled “Recruiting and Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR)”. Jamie Mitchell works alongside community stakeholders to provide free public health education and programming to older adults in Flint, Michigan, and recruits older adults to a research registry that will connect participants to local well-vetted research studies. The goal is to increase the representation of Black older adults in health discoveries on aging. Currently, Jamie is pursuing funding opportunities to develop and disseminate culturally-tailored community-based health education on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias for older adults in Flint and Detroit, MI.

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