Jamie Mitchell, PhD

Associate Professor of Social Work, Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University Michigan

Dr. Mitchell works with academic and community stakeholders to specifically recruit a higher yield of older African Americans into health research, while sharing best practices for minority recruitment and retention in aging research with NIH centers and investigators nationally. In her role as co-invetigator in the NIH NIA-funded Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) project and co-director of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core of MCUAAAR, she engages a thriving community advisory board of African American older adults, and co-manages the administrative components of MCUAAAR’s Participant Research Registry of 1200 older African American research participants in Detroit.