University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
                Research Center for Group Dynamics

 

Sean Joe

Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics
Associate Professor of Social Work
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School

Sean Joe
5057 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-764-5162

Current research interests’ focuses on the role of religion in black suicidal behavior, salivary biomarker discovery for adolescent suicidal behavior, and developing a father focused family-based interventions to prevent urban African-American adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors, including suicidal behavior. Dr. Joe is the Director of the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network (ESIN) and co-chairs ESIN’s Research study Group on African- American Suicide. He also has significant interest in theoretical and methodological issues related to community level intervention research to address disparities, healthy masculinity, and positive youth development.