Faculty Profile

BIO

Jamie Mitchell is an associate professor of social work and co-investigator of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research. Her interdisciplinary research examines best practices for community-engaged health research with Black older adults. She is the founder of the Healthier Black Elders-Flint program that provides free health programming and maintains a research pool of over 400 Black older adults; managed by the program’s community advisory board. This program was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH) for five years ending in March 2025 and is currently pursuing additional funding. Dr. Mitchell is partnering with the Healthier Black Elders-Flint community advisory board and several local community stakeholders to test a new culturally tailored educational intervention to reduce stigma around Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias among Black older adults.  She also continues to partner with community and academic scholars on ways of intervening to support older Black men’s chronic disease self-management and health communication during medical encounters.