BIO

Dr. Neighbors’s interests include psychiatric and epidemiologic field methods with African Americans, racial/ethnic influences on the diagnosis of mental disorder, and the use of professional services among the mentally ill. He is developing methods designed to encourage African American men with Major Depressive Disorder to seek help. Neighbors teaches a master’s lecture class and a doctoral seminar on racial and ethnic health disparities. He is also Program Director of the NIH-funded doctoral training grant, Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Research. Dr. Neighbors is Professor Emeritus in the Health Behavior and Health Equity program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health