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

 

  • 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