Derek Griffith, PhD Georgetown University, USA

Dr. Derek M. Griffith, PhD, is a Founder and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, and Professor of Health Systems Administration and Oncology at Georgetown University. Trained in psychology and public health, Dr. Griffith’s program of research focuses on developing strategies to improve Black men’s health and to achieve racial, ethnic and gender equity and justice in health. Dr. Griffith has collaborated with colleagues in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States on various research projects. He has been arguing that a gendered approach to COVID-19 should include men’s health in Time, ProPublica, The New York Times, and others. In addition to developing and conducting precision lifestyle medicine interventions to prevent and control obesity and other chronic diseases in Black men, his qualitative research has applied concepts such as intersectionality and manhood to better characterize the identities and experiences of Black men, Latino men, and other marginalized men. Dr. Griffith is a contributor to and editor of Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2019) and Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook (Routledge, 2019), and author of over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts.