Uchechi A. Mitchell, PhD

Biography

Uchechi A. Mitchell was a 2015 National Institute on Aging (NIA) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, in the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health. She is now an associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago where she studies the intersection of population and biopsychosocial sciences using large national surveys of older adults.

As a postdoctoral fellow, she received training in gerontology and population aging, multidimensional aspects of the aging experience, and social determinants of change in biological risk among older adults. She was a former predoctoral trainee with the NIA and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), where she pursued research on the effects of experiences of discrimination on health and health disparities.

Mitchell’s RCMAR project title was Economic Stress and Disease Risk: A Pathway to Health Inequalities Among Older Adults. She received her PhD in public health, with training in Community Health Sciences, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014.