James S. Jackson, Ph.D.
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James S. Jackson, Ph.D., is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research. He is a former National President of the Association of Black Psychologists, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
He served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging Advisory Council and the Board of Scientific Counselors of NIA. He served as a member of the Advisory Council to the Director of NIH. He is a fellow of several scientific associations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research in Aging, Gerontological Society of America, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology, the Association for Psychological Sciences, Solomon Carter Fuller Award, American Psychiatric Association, Senior Health Policy Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Member, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, National Research Council, The National Academies, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was recently named to the National Science Board.
He is a founding member of the “Aging Society Research Network” of the MacArthur Foundation and he is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted. He is the Co-Director of the NIH supported University of Michigan “Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities” and the “Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research”.
