Select Completed and Current Funding
2022-2023 Cross-validation of risks for Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans with Yoruba people of West Africa.
National Institute on Aging RO1 supplement.
Role: Co-Investigator; MPIs, Mark Gluck and Adesola Ogunniyi
2022-2024 Exploring the pathways to Alzheimer’s Disease in older African American men.
Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD).
Role: Principal Investigator
2023-2027 Early characterization of determinants of brain health and AD risk in older African American men.
National Institute on Aging K99/R00.
Role: Principal Investigator
2023-2025 Sleep and Alzheimer’s disease risk among older African Americans
Alzheimer’s Association - AARFD
Role: Principal Investigato
2024-2029 Elevating efforts to recruit and retain HBCU scholars in the aging field
National Institute on Aging R13
Role: MPI; MPI: Tamara Baker-Thomas and Candidus Nwakasi
Select Publications
Link to Google Scholar Profile:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b3pPVUcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Booker, S. Q., Baker, T. A., Esiaka, D., Minahan, J. A., Engel, I. J., Banerjee, K., & Poitevien, M. (2023). A historical review of pain disparities research: Advancing toward health equity and empowerment. Nursing Outlook, 71(3), 101965.
- Esiaka, D. K., Nwakasi, C., Nnamele, V. U., Idu, A. O., Egwuonwu, J., & Mahmoud, K. O. (2023). Pathways to health outcomes after cancer diagnosis: A systematic review of cancer survivorship in Nigeria. Psycho‐Oncology.
- Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Parajuli, J., & Subedi, J. (2022). Health Information Seeking and Mental Health Support Utilization Among Individuals in US Prisons. Journal of Correctional Health Care.
- Esiaka, D., & Adams, G. (2020). Epistemic Violence in Research on Eldercare. Psychology and Developing Societies, 0971333620936948.
- Nwakasi, C., Scot-Brown, J., Subedi, S, & Esiaka, D. (2020). Depression, functional disability, and accessing health care among older Ghanaians and South Africans: A comparative study based on WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) (CAMH-2019-0637). Aging and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1758904
- Atakere, D. (2018). Early cancer detection behavior among Black males. Journal of Men’s Health, 14(3), e3-e13.https://www.jomh.org/index.php/JMH/article/view/75
- Baker, T. A., Minahan, J. A., & Atakere, D. K. (2018). Pain and men. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 39(1), 95-106.
- Chidebe, R. C. W., Emelumadu, O., Lounsbury, D., Orjiakor, T. C., Okoye, I. O., Anunobi, C. D… Atakere, D…. Okwuegbunam, N. (2018). Men on Blue: Knowledge, Belief, Fear, Perceived Attitude of Men to Prostate Cancer Screening and Awareness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Global Oncology, 4_suppl_2, 238s-238s