Ifatunji Awarded NIH Diversity Supplement Grant

Ifatunji awarded NIH Diversity Supplement grant to study health and mortality disparities of native- and foreign-born Blacks in the United States,

IDS affiliate Mosi Ifatunji was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Supplement grant to study disparities in the health and mortality of native- and foreign-born Blacks in the United States. Ifatunji, an assistant professor in African American Studies and Sociology, explains that, while Blacks in the United States are often treated as a monolith, the U.S. Black population has become increasingly diverse in recent decades. For example, in 1960, foreign-born Blacks made up less than one percent of the Black population, but by 2019, that number had grown to ten percent.