Publications

Edited Books

• Editor (2023): Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour: Global Strategies for Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Context. (Eds). James A. Smith, Daphne C. Watkins, and Derek M. Griffith. New York, NY: Springer.
• Editor (2019):  Men’s Health Equity (new window). (Eds). Derek M. Griffith, Marino A. Bruce & Roland J. Thorpe, Jr. New York, NY: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis.
• Editor (2019):  Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. (new window) (Eds). Chandra L. Ford, Derek M. Griffith, Marino A. Bruce & Keon L. Gilbert. Publisher: APHA Press. 

Journal Articles

2023

• Cleary, A., Griffith D.M., Oliffe, J., & Rice, S. (2023). Editorial: Men, mental health, & suicide. Frontiers in Sociology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1123319 (new window)

2022

• Griffith, D.M. (2022). “Healthy masculinities are mosaics”: Comment on Di Bianca and Mahalik (2022). American Psychologist, 77, 333-335. (Invited commentary) DOI: 10.1037/amp0000974
• Loeb, S., Borno, H.T., Gomez, S., Ravenell, J., Myrie, A., Sanchez Nolasco, T., Byrne, N., Cole, R., Black, K., Stair, S., Macaluso, J.N., Walter, D., Siu, K., Samuels, C., Kazemi, A., Crocker, R., Sherman, R., Wilson, G., Griffith, D.M., & Langford, A.T. (2022). Representation in online prostate cancer content lacks racial and ethnic diversity: implications for Black and Latinx men. The Journal of Urology, 207, 559-564.

2021

• Ellison, Jennifer M., Semlow, Andrea R., Jaeger, Emily C., and Griffth, Derek M. COVID-19 and MENtal Health: Addressing Men’s Mental Health Needs In the Digital World. (new window) American Journal of Men’s Health, 15, 4 (July 11, 2021): 155798832110300. DOI: 10.1177/15579883211030021. (new window)
• Griffith, D.M. Race, Ethnicity And Men’s Health. Men’s Health, 408-412
• Griffith, D.M. Well-being in Healthy People 2030: a missed opportunity. Health Education & Behavior 48 (2), 115-117
• Griffith, D.M., Bergner, E.M., Fair, A.S., & Wilkins, C.H. (2021). Using Mistrust, Distrust, and Low Trust Precisely in Medical Care and Medical Research Advances Health Equity.  (new window) American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 60(3), 442-445
• Griffith, D.M., Holliday, C.S., Enyia, O.K., Ellison, J.M., Jaeger, E.C. Using Syndemics and Intersectionality to Explain the Disproportionate COVID-19 Mortality Among Black Men. Public Health Reports, 00333549211026799.
• Griffith D.M., Jaeger, E.C., Semlow, A.R., Ellison J.M., Bergner, E.M., & Stewart, E.C. (2021) Individually Tailoring Messages to Promote African American Men’s Health. (new window)  Health Communication.
• Griffith, D. M., Pennings, J. S., & Jaeger, E. C. (2021). African American manhood and self-rated health: What demographic characteristics, health conditions, and aspects of manhood matter?  (new window)Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 22(2), 250–264
• Morgan, R., Baker, P., Griffith, D.M., Klein, S.L., Logie, C.H., Mwiine, A.A. … Beyond a zero-sum game: How does the impact of COVID-19 vary by gender? Frontiers in Sociology 6, 126
• Semlow, A.R, Ellison, J.M, Jaeger, E.C, Griffith, D.M.  Healthy Men 2030: Setting Men’s Health Goals as a Tool to Improve the Nation’s Health and Achieve Health Equity. Health Education & Behavior 48 (4), 393-396
• Smith, J.A, Watkins, D.C, Griffith, D.M. Reducing health inequities facing boys and young men of colour in the United States. Health Promotion International 36 (5), 1508-1515

2020

• Griffith, D.M. (2020). Promoting Men’s Health Equity. (new window) American Journal of Men’s Health. 
• Griffith, D.M. (2020). Preface: Precision medicine approaches to health disparities research. (new window) Ethnicity & Disease, 30(supplement 1), 129-134.
• Griffith, D.M. & Cornish, E.K. (2020). Mighty Men: A faith-based weight loss intervention to reduce cancer risk in African American men. In M.E. Ford & D.K. Watson (Eds.),  (new window) Advances in Cancer Health Equity Research (Advances in Cancer Research book series), Vol. 146. (pp. 189-217). Cambridge, MA: Elsevier.
• Griffith, D.M., Jaeger, E.C., Bergner, E.M., Stallings, S. & Wilkins, C.H. (2020). Determinants of trustworthiness to conduct medical research: Findings from focus groups conducted with racially and ethnically diverse adults. (new window) Journal of General Internal Medicine. Published online 3 June 2020.
• Griffith, D.M., Jaeger, E.C., Valdez, L.A., Schaefer Solle, N., Garcia, D.O., & Alexander, L.R. (2020). Developing A “Tailor-Made” Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention for Weight Control among Middle-Aged Latino Men. (new window) Ethnicity & Disease. 30(Suppl1). 203-210.
• Griffith, D.M., Sharma, G., Holliday, C.S., Enyia, O.K., Valliere, M., Semlow, A.R., Stewart, E.C. & Blumenthal, R.S. (2020). Men and COVID-19: A biopsychosocial approach to understanding sex differences in mortality and recommendations for practice and policy interventions. (new window) Preventing Chronic Disease, 17, 200-247.
• Griffith, D.M. & Semlow, A.R. (2020). Art, Anti-Racism and Health Equity: “Don’t ask me why, ask me how!” Ethnicity & Disease, 30(3), 373-380.
• Smith, J.A., Griffith, D.M., White, A., Baker, P., Watkins, D.C., Drummond, M. & Semlow, A. (2020). COVID-19, equity and men’s health: Using evidence to inform future public health policy, practice and research responses in pandemics. (new window) International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health, 3(1), e48-e64.
• Smith, J.A., Watkins, D.C. & Griffith, D.M. (2020). Fostering transnational research partnerships to advance men’s health. (new window)   American Journal of Men’s Health, July-August, 1-2.
• Smith, J.A., Watkins, D.C. & Griffith, D.M. (2020). Equity, gender and health: New directions for global men’s health promotion. (new window) Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31(2), 161-165.
• Yeh, V.M., Bergner, E.M., Bruce, M.A., Kripalani, S., Mitrani, V.B., Ogunsola, T.A., Wilkins, C.H., & Griffith, D.M. (2020). Can precision medicine actually help people like me? African American and Hispanic perspectives on the benefits and barriers of precision medicine. (new window) Ethnicity & Disease, 30(supplement 1), 149-158.

Book Chapters

• Griffith, D.M.  & Cornish, E.K. (2020). Mighty Men: A faith-based weight loss intervention to reduce cancer risk in African American men. In M.E. Ford & D.K. Watson (Eds.),  Advances in Cancer Health Equity Research  ( Advances in Cancer Research  book series), vol.  156 . Cambridge, MA: Elsevier. (new window)
• Ford, C.L.,  Griffith, D.M. , Bruce, M.A. & Gilbert, K.L. (2019). Introduction: Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional .  In C.L. Ford, D.M. Griffith , M.A. Bruce, & K.L. Gilbert. (Eds.),  Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional.  Washington, DC: APHA Press.
• Ford, C.L., Griffith, D.M., Bruce, M.A. & Gilbert, K.L. (2019). Conclusion: Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. In C.L. Ford,D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, & K.L. Gilbert. (Eds.), Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. Washington, DC: APHA Press.
• Griffith, D.M., Bruce, M.A. & Thorpe, Jr., R.J. (2019). Preface: Men’s Health Equity. In D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, & R.J. Thorpe, Jr. (Eds.),  Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook . New York, NY: Routledge.
• Griffith, D.M., Bruce, M.A. & Thorpe, Jr., R.J. (2019). Introduction: Men’s Health Equity. In D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, & R.J. Thorpe, Jr. (Eds.), Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Griffith, D.M., Bruce, M.A. & Thorpe, Jr., R.J. (2019). Conclusion: Men’s Health Equity. In D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, & R.J. Thorpe, Jr. (Eds.), Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Griffith, D.M. , Cornish, E.K., Sherman, L.D. & Moore, H. J.* (2019). Middle-aged men’s health: Patterns and causes of health disparities during a pivotal period in the lifecourse. In  D.M. Griffith , M.A. Bruce, & R.J. Thorpe, Jr. (Eds.),  Men’s Health Equity . New York, NY: Routledge.
• Griffith, D.M. , Pennings, J.S., Bruce, M.A. & Ayers, G.D. (2019). Measuring the dimensions of African American Manhood: A factor analysis. In  D.M. Griffith , M.A. Bruce, & R.J. Thorpe, Jr. (Eds.),  Men’s Health Equity . New York, NY: Routledge.
• Williams, D.R &  Griffith, D.M.  (2019). “We just haven’t put our minds to it”: An Interview with David Williams describing the trajectory of his career studying racism. In C.L. Ford,  D.M. Griffith , M.A. Bruce, & K.L. Gilbert. (Eds.),  Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. Washington, DC: APHA Press.

For more publications, visit: Dr. Derek M. Griffith’s Google Scholar page.