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Bowman Lecture Series Enters Third Year with Presentation from Dr. Waldo E. Johnson, Jr.
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., PhD
African American Males’ Engagement with Public and Private Institutions: Physical and Mental Health Implications
Thursday, January 10, 2008
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine – 4th Floor Atrium
December 19, 2007 — Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., PhD will present the first Bowman Lecture of 2008 on Thursday, January 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the 4th Floor Atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine.
Dr. Johnson is Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago (CSRPC). At SSA, Professor Johnson teaches social welfare policy and human behavior in the social environment in the MA program and research methods in the MA and PhD programs. As a family research scholar, Dr. Johnson’s substantive research focuses on male roles and involvement in African American families, nonresident fathers in fragile families, and the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males. As a research methodologist, he is interested in the use of qualitative research methods in guiding policy and practice research.
Dr. Johnson’s involvement in numerous groups in the Chicagoland area has had wide-reaching effects throughout the community. He works as a research consultant to the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago’s African American Male Initiative (AAI), a four-year community-based program aimed at enhancing the well-being of African American males ages 10–16 in five Chicago communities. In a similar role Dr. Johnson assists the Initiative for African American Males (IAAM), an engagement of African American males ages 6–40 in the areas of family engagement and fatherhood, positive cultural representations, educational achievement, workplace success, civic engagement, and advocacy by the Chicago Urban League’s Project Next. Dr. Johnson serves on the editorial board of Children and Youth Services Review and was a consulting editor of Social Work: The Journal of the National Association of Social Workers from 2003 to 2006.
Dr. Johnson earned a BA in Sociology at Mercer University, a MSW at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Social Work at the University of Chicago. He was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Poverty Research Center and the Program for Research on Black American (PRBA) at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Johnson also worked as a NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow NIMH in the Minority Training Program in HIV/AIDS Research at the University of Michigan.
The Bowman Society lectures highlight medical research issues and topics that are important to the health care of minority communities. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Bowman Society Lecture Series commenced in 2005 through the generous support of Dr. James E. Bowman, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, and the Biological Sciences Division’s first tenured African-American Professor.
For more information on past lecturers, please visit the Bowman Society page.
