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Angela Johnson
Outreach Specialist Senior
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Sociology Sociology Sociology Sociology (Michigan State University)
About
Johnson completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral research fellowship through the Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research at Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan Health System) under the guidance of Dr. Maria Muzik, director of the Women and Infants Mental Health Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan. Dr. Johnson led a translational study designed to highlight psychosocial risk factors and to inform interventions that address disparate breastfeeding behavior among African American women. Results of this study are published in several national and international peer-reviewed journals. Johnson is an applied social scientist whose expertise and training reflects experience as an research scholar, practitioner, and published author in the area of maternal health and breastfeeding disparities.
Current Work
Johnson is currently developing a community-based intervention designed to address barriers to optimal perinatal health and well-being among community women in Washtenaw county. Intervention design will be based on outcomes from a series of focus groups and subsequent planning discussions held with pregnant women and new mothers to learn strategies that might best support them. The intervention will be piloted on the same women who participate in the focus group study and expanded to include additional eligible participants.Johnson serves as a senior outreach specialist with the Program for Multicultural Health, Department of Community Health Services where she develops education, training, and research programs for community, students, and staff, designed to reduce racial and other social inequities.
Research Area Keyword(s)
African American women, breastfeeding, Health Disparities, Maternal health