We are excited to share that this year’s Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Reserach (MCUAAAR) Spring Conference will feature multiple presentations from GREMAP’s facutly and students. Starting off, GREMAP PhD student Eskira Kahsay will open the event with her talk “The Nexus of Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Deprivation: Exploring Suicide Risk Among Black Americans”, which explores her dissertation work on the mental health impacts of residential segregation. Later, Dr. Briana Mezuk will be leading the conference’s faculty presentation with her talk on the newly-funded re-interview of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) titled “Planning for the National Survey of American Life 2.0”. The spring conference will also feature presentations by MCUAAAR research scientists Drs. Nekehia T. Quashie, Myles Durkee, and Carrie Leach on a variety of topics related to the health and wellbeing of Black Americans and older adults.

The event will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 9th from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm ET. You can register for the conference with the link here.