Wizdom A. Powell

Director, Health Disparities Institute

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Primary Research Theme

Healthy Cities

Secondary Research Themes

Social-Ecological Systems

Recent Cities-related Projects

  • Neighborhoods, Daily Stress, & Problematic Substance Use in Young Adult Black Males

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Implementing a Prison Medicaid Enrollment Program for Inmates with a Community Inpatient Hospitalization.  Rosen, David L; Grodensky, Catherine A; Miller, Anna R; Golin, Carol E; Domino, Marisa E; Powell, Wizdom; Wohl, David A Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2018 Apr;95(2):149-158

The Association Between Men’s Concern About Demonstrating Masculine Characteristics and Their Sexual Risk Behaviors: Findings from the Dominican Republic. Fleming, Paul J; Barrington, Clare; Powell, Wizdom; Gottert, Ann; Lerebours, Leonel; Donastorg, Yeycy; Brito, Maximo O Archives of sexual behavior 2018 Feb;47(2):507-515

“Racial discrimination, the superwoman schema, and allostatic load: exploring an integrative stress-coping model among

African American women. Allen, Amani M; Wang, Yijie; Chae, David H; Price, Melisa M; Powell, Wizdom; Steed, Teneka C; Rose Black, Angela;

Dhabhar, Firdaus S; Marquez-Magaña, Leticia; Woods-Giscombe, Cheryl L Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2019 Aug;”

Factor Analysis of the CES-D 12 in a Community Sample of Black Men. American Journal of Men’s Health. Adams, L.B., Lightfoot, A., Gottfredson, N., Corbie-Smith, G., Golin, C., Powell, W. (In Press) American Journal of Men’s Health 2019 Mar;

Personal growth initiative as a mediator of the relationship between everyday racism and depression among  African American males. Hoggard, L., Powell, W., Upton, R.. Seaton, E.K., & Neblett, Jr., Enrique W. (In Press) Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2019 Mar;

Racial discrimination, medical mistrust, and delays in preventive health screening among African American men. Powell, W., Richmond, J., Mohottige, D., Yen, I.H., Joslyn, A., Corbie-Smith, G. (In press) Behavioral Medicine 2019 Mar;

Underutilization of HIV Testing Among Men with Incarceration Histories.  Farel, Claire E; Golin, Carol E; Ochtera, Rebecca D; Rosen, David L; Margolis, Marjorie; Powell, Wizdom; Wohl, David A AIDS and behavior 2019 Jan;