Daphne C. Watkins

Letha A. Chadiha Collegiate Professor of Social Work, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work

Daphne C. Watkins is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan who studies: (1) behavioral interventions for historically underrepresented groups; (2) mixed methods approaches to research in context; and (3) social impact leadership and organizational development.

Centering the strategies for success among historically marginalized groups, Professor Watkins’ research aims to maximize human potential, elevate social experiences, and provide equitable impact in communities and organizations. She is a community-practitioner interested in developing efficient tools and systems that activate positive, strengths-based outcomes for those most in need. Ultimately, she is committed to conducting and mobilizing cutting-edge, use-inspired research to address important social concerns.

Professor Watkins is the founding director of the Gender and Health Research (GendHR) Lab, the Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research, and the award-winning Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project, which leverages technology to provide mental health education and social support for young Black men. She teaches graduate-level courses on research methods, social equity and equality, and community-based interventions. She also serves on committees and advisory boards aimed at improving men’s health equity both domestically and globally.

Contact Information

  • (734) 647-0161

  • University of Michigan
    School of Social Work
    1080 S. University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Education

  • 2006 PhD Health Education & Behavior
    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  • 2025 EMBA Leadership & Organizational Behavior
    Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, DC
  • 2002 BA Anthropology & French
    University of North Carolina, Wilmington

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Activities

Publications
Mitchell, J., Hawkins, J. & Watkins, D. C. (2013). Proposing a model of cancer family history communication between African American men and their families. Journal of Men's Studies.
Watkins, D. C. (2014). [Review of the book Publish and prosper: A strategy guide for students and researchers, by N. M. Lambert]. Research on Social Work Practice, 24(4), 503-505.
Akinyemi, E., Watkins, D. C., Lynn, S., Kavanagh, J., & Kales, H. C. (2012). Attitudes of church-going older African Americans to depression and depression care. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20(3), S121-S157.
Mitchell, J., Shires, D., Thompson, H., Watkins, D. C., & Modlin, C. (2014). Disparities in health-related internet use among African American Men, 2010. Preventing Chronic Disease, 11, E43-48.
Waktins, D. C. & Jefferson, S. O. (2013). Recommendations for the use of online social support for African American men. Psychological Services, 10(3), 323-332.
Mitchell, J., Watkins, D. C., & Modlin, C. (2013). Social determinants associated with colorectal cancer screening in an urban community sample of African American men. Journal of Men's Health, 10(1), 14-21.
Johnson-Lawrence, V. D., Griffith, D. M., & Watkins, D. C. (2013). The effects of race, ethnicity, and mood/anxiety disorders on the chronic physical health conditions of men from a national sample. American Journal of Men's Health, 7(4S), 58-67.
Watkins, D. C., Abelson, J. M., & Jefferson, S. O. (2013). 'Their depression is something different... it would have to be:' Findings from a qualitative study of black women's perceptions of black men's depression. American Journal of Men's Health, 7(4S), 42-54.
Do, D. P., Watkins, D. C., Heron, M., Hiemeyer, M., & Finch, B. K. (2013). The relationship between height and neighborhood context across racial/ethnic groups: A multi-level analysis of the 1999-2004 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Economics and Human Biology, 11, 30-41.
Watkins, D. C., & Hartfield, J. A. (2012). Health education for social workers: A primer. Social Work in Health Care, 51(8), 680-694.
Watkins, D. C., Pittman, C., & Walsh, M. (2013). The effects of psychological distress, work, and family stressors on child behavior problems. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 44(1), 1-16.
Griffith, D. M., Gunter, K. E., & Watkins, D. C. (2012). Measuring masculinity in research on men of color: Findings and future directions. American Journal of Public Health, 102, S187-S194.
Watkins, D. C. (2012). Qualitative research: The importance of conducting research that doesn't 'count'. Health Promotion Practice, 13(2), 153-158.
Watkins, D. C. (2012). Depression over the adult life course for African American men: Toward a framework for research and practice. American Journal of Men's Health, 6(3), 194-210.
Watkins, D. C., Smith, L. C., Kerber, K., Kuebler, J., & Himle, J. (2011). E-mail as a depression self-management tool: A needs assessment to determine patients’ interests and preferences. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(7), 378-381.
Hunt, J., Watkins, D. C., & Eisenberg, D. (2012). How do college campuses make decisions about allocating resources for student mental health? Findings from key participant interviews at 10 campuses. Journal of College Student Development, 53(6), 850-856.
Perron, B., Alexander-Eitzman, B., Watkins, D., Taylor, R., Neighbors, H. W., & Jackson, J. S. (2009). Ethnic differences in delays to treatment for substance use disorders: African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Hispanic Whites. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 41(4), 369-377.
Lincoln, K. D., Taylor, R. J., Watkins, D. C., & Chatters, L. (2011). Correlates of psychological distress and major depressive disorder among African American men. Research on Social Work Practice, 21(3), 278-288.
Watkins, D. C., Hudson, D. L., Caldwell, C. H., Siefert, K., & Jackson, J. S. (2011). Discrimination, mastery, and depressive symptoms among African American men. Research on Social Work Practice, 21(3), 269-277.
Watkins, D. C., & Johnson, T. R. B. (2008). The gender specification and cultural sensitivity of depression research with Black Americans: A multidimensional model. Journal of Women's Health, 17(8), 1230-1231.
Wallace, P. M., Watkins, D. C., & Dixon-Terry, E. (2010). Be it resolved: Writing resolutions to influence health policy. Health Promotion Practice, 11(1), 9-12.
Watkins, D. C. Hawkins, J., & Mitchell, J. (2014). The discipline’s escalating whisper: Social work and black men’s mental health. Research on Social Work Practice.
Watkins, D. C., & Griffith, D. M. (2014). Mental Health Promotion Programs: A Scoping Review of Men’s Mental Health Promotion Programs in the United States. Movember Foundation and the Centre for Men’s Health at Leed’s University, London, UK.
Watkins, D. C. (2004). Smoking. In D. C. S. James (Ed.), Nutrition and well-being A to Z (Vol. 2, p. 198). Detroit, Michigan: Macmillan Reference USA.
Watkins, D. C. (2004). Osteopenia. In D. C. S. James (Ed.), Nutrition and well-being A to Z (Vol. 2, p. 122). Detroit, Michigan, Macmillan Reference USA.
Watkins, D. C. (2004). Life expectancy. In D. C. S. James (Ed.), Nutrition and well-being A to Z (Vol. 2, p. 28). Detroit, Michigan: Macmillan Reference USA.
Samuel-Hodge, C., Watkins, D. C., Rowell, K. L., & Hooten, E. (2008). Coping styles, well-being, and self-care behaviors among African-Americans with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Educator, 34(3), 501-510.
Watkins, D. C., Green, B. L., Goodson, P., Guidry, J., & Stanley, C. A. (2007). Using focus groups to explore the stressful life events of black college men. Journal of College Student Development, 48(1), 105-118.
Watkins, D. C., Rivers, D., Rowell, K., Green, B. L., & Rivers, B. M. (2006). A closer look at effect sizes and their relevance to health education. American Journal of Health Education, 37(2), 103-108.
Watkins, D. C. & Hawkins, J. (2015). Qualitative evidence in health promotion. In K. Olson, R. Young, & I. Z. Schultz (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Health Research for Evidence-Based Practice. New York, NY: Springer.
Watkins, D. C., Hawkins, J., & Mitchell, J. A. (2015). The discipline's escalating whisper: Social work and black men's mental health. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(2), 240-250.
Leggett, A. N., Bugajski, B., Webster, B., Broderick, B., Watkins, D., Gitlin, L., & Kales, H. C. (2019). Style and substance: A qualitative characterization of dementia caregiving management styles. Innovation in Aging, 3(Suppl 1), S594-S595.
Watkins, D. C. (2019). A light on the path and promise of Black men's mental health. Men and Masculinities, 22(5), 917-920.
Allen, J. O., Watkins, D. C., Johnson-Lawrence, V. D., & Chatters, L. (2019). Mechanisms of racial health disparities: Evidence on coping and cortisol from MIDUS II. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Allen, J. O., Watkins, D. C., Chatters, L. M., & Johnson-Lawrence, V. D. (2018). Does coping matter? Coping and chronic physiological distress among aging U.S. Black and White men. Innovation in Aging, 2(1), 668-669.
Hawkins, J., Watkins, D. C., Allen, J. O., & Mitchell, J. A. (2018). Identifying subgroups of Black, Hispanic and Asian men at increased risk for comorbid depression and overweight or obesity. Preventative Medicine Reports, 12, 268-270.
Watkins, D. C. (2019). Improving the living, learning, and thriving of Black men: A conceptual framework for projection and reflection. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(8), 1331.
Allen, J. O., Watkins, D. C., Johnson-Lawrence, V. D., Geronimus, A. T., & Chatters, L. (2019). Mechanisms of racial health disparities: Evidence on coping and cortisol from MIDUS II. American Journal of Men's Health.
Mouzon, D. M., Watkins, D. C., Perry, R., Simpson, T. M., & Mitchell, J. A. (2019). Intergenerational mobility and goal-striving stress among black Americans: The roles of ethnicity and nativity status. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 21(2), 393-400.
Goodwill, J. R., Anyiwo, N., Williams, E. G., Johnson, N. C., Mattis, J. S. & Watkins, D. C. (2019). Media representations of popular culture figures and the construction of Black masculinities. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 20(3), 288-298.
Anyiwo, N., Bañales, J., Rowley, S., Watkins, D. C., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2018). Sociocultural influences on the sociopolitical development of Black Youth. Child Developmental Perspectives, 12(3), 165-170.
Watkins, D. C. & Johnson, N. C. (2018). Age and gender differences in psychological distress among African Americans and Whites: Findings from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey. Healthcare, 6(1), 1-11.
Goodwill, J. R., Watkins, D. C., Johnson, N. C., & Allen, J. O. (2018). An exploratory study of coping among Black college men. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(5), 538-549.
Anyiwo, N., Banales, J., Rowley, S., Watkins, D. C., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2018). Sociocultural influences on the sociopolitical development of African American youth. Child Development Perspectives, 12(3), 165-170.
Gerlach, L., Kavanagh, J., Watkins, D., Chiang, C., Kim, H., & Kales, H. (2017). With a little help from my friends?: Racial and gender differences in the role of social support in later-life depression medication adherence. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-9.
Akinyemi, E., Watkins, D. C., Kavanagh, J., Johnson-Lawrence, V. D., Lynn, S., & Kales, H. C. (2017). A qualitative comparison of DSM depression criteria to language used by older church-going African Americans. Aging and Mental Health, 14, 1-7.
Jäggi, L. J., Mezuk, B., Watkins, D. C., & Jackson, J. S. (2016). The relationship between trauma, arrest and incarceration history among black Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life. Society and Mental Health, 6(3), 187-206.
Watkins, D. C., Allen, J. O., Goodwill, J. R., & Noel, B. (2017). Strengths and weaknesses of the young black men, masculinities, and mental health (YBMen) Facebook Project. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 87(4), 392-401.
Barry, A. E., Jackson, Z., Watkins, D. C., Goodwill, J. R., & Hunte, H. E. (2016). Alcohol use and mental health conditions among black college males: Do those attending postsecondary minority institutions fare better than those at primarily white institutions? American Journal of Men’s Health, 11(4), 962-968.
Wharton, T., Watkins, D. C., Mitchell, J. A., & Kales, H. C. (2018). Older, church-going African-Americans’ attitudes and expectations about formal depression care. Research on Aging, 40(1), 3-26.
Kales, H. C., Gitlin, L. N., Stanislawski, B., Marx, K., Turnwald, M., Watkins, D. C., & Lyketsos, C. G. (2017). WeCareAdvisor™: The development of a caregiver-focused, web-based program to assess and manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders: An International Journal.
Werner, N. E., Stanislawski, B., Marx, K., Watkins, D. C., Kobayashi, M., Kales, H. C., & Gitlin, L. N. (2017). Getting what they need when they need it: Identifying barriers to information needs of family caregivers to manage dementia-related behavioral symptoms. Applied Clinical Informatics, 8, 191-205.
Guetterman, T. C., Creswell, J. W., Wittink, M., Barg, F. K., Castro, F. G., Dahlberg, B., Watkins, D. C., Deutsch, C., & Gallo, J. J. (2017). Development of a self-rated mixed methods skills Assessment: The NIH mixed methods research training program for the Health Sciences. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, 37(2), 76-82.
Watkins, D. C. (2017). Rapid and rigorous qualitative data analysis: The RADaR technique for applied research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1).
Watkins, D., Patton, D., & Miller, R. (2016). Introduction to the special issue on the intersections of race, gender, and class in the wake of a national crisis: The state of black boys and men Post-Ferguson. Journal of Men's Studies, 24(2), 119–129.
Assari, S., WAtkins, D. C., & Caldwell, C. H. (2015). Race attribution modifies the association between daily discrimination and major depressive disorder among blacks: The role of gender and ethnicity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(2), 200-210.
Hawkins, J., Watkins, D. C., Kieffer, E., Spencer, M., Espitia, N., Sinco, B., & Anderson, M. (2015). Structural and psychosocial factors that influence health care use and self-management for African American and Latino men with type 2 diabetes: An exploratory study. Journal of Men's Studies, 23(2), 161-176.
Hawkins, J., Watkins, D. C., Bonner, T., & Thompson, T. L. (2016). Racial/ethnic differences in predictors of mental health treatment in person with comorbid diabetes and depression. Social Work and Public Health, 31(6), 511-619.
Jäggi, L. J., Mezuk, B., Watkins, D. C., & Jackson, J. S. (2016). The relationship between trauma, arrest and incarceration history among black Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life. Society and Mental Health, 6(3), 187-206.
Thompson, T., Mitchell, J., Johnson-Lawrence, V., Watkins, D. & Modlin, C. (2015). Self-rated health and health care access associated with African American men's health self-efficacy. American Journal of Men's Health.
Jefferson, O., Watkins, D., & Mitchell, J. (2016). The retrospective roles of black women in the coddling of black boys. Journal of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity in Social Work, 25(3), 173-192.
Watkins, D. C., Wharton, T., Mitchell, J. A., Matusko, N., & Kales, H. (2015). Perceptions and receptivity of non-spousal family support: A mixed methods study of psychological distress among older, church-going African American men. Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Mitchell, J., Watkins, D. C., J. & Shires, D., Chapman, R., & Burnett, J. (2015). Clues to the blues: predictors of self-reported mental and emotional health among older African American men. American Journal of Men's Health.
Thompson, T. L., Watkins, D. C., & Johnson-Lawrence, V. D. (2016). Masculinity, socioeconomic status, and self-rated health among African American men. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 4(2), 61-81.
Piette, J. D., Valenstein, M., Eisenberg, D., Fetters, M. D., Sen, A., Saunders, D., Watkins, D., & Aikens, J. E. (2015). Rationale and methods of a trial to evaluate a depression telemonitoring program that includes a patient-selected support person. Journal of Clinical Trials, 5(1), 1-8.
Watkins, D. C., Assari, S., & Johnson-Lawence V. D. (2015). Race and ethnic differences in comorbid psychiatric disorders with chronic medical conditions. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2(3), 385-394.
Burns, J. C., Reeves, J., Calvert, W. J., Adams, M., Ozuna-Harrison, R., Smith, M. J., Baranwalt, S., Johnson, K., Rodgers, C. R. R., & Watkins, D. C. (2021). Engaging young black males in reproductive health care: A review of the literature. American Journal of Men's Health, 15(6), 15579883211062024.
Mezuk, B., Needham, B., Joiner, K., Watkins, D. C., Stoddard, S., Burgard, S., & Link, B. (2020). What elephant? Pedagogical approaches to addressing stigma attitudes toward mental disorders in undergraduate public health education. Pedagogy in Health Promotion.
Watkins, D. C., Goodwill, J. R., Johnson, N. C., Casanova, A., Wei, T., Allen, J. O., Williams, E. G., Anyiwo, N., Jackson, Z., Talley, L. M., & Abelson, J. M. (2020). An online behavioral health intervention promoting mental health, manhood, and social support for Black men: The YBMen project. American Journal of Men’s Health, 14(4), 1-17.
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. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health, 3(1), e48-e64.
Allen, J. O., Watkins, D. C., Mezuk, B., Chatters, L. & Johnson-Lawrence, V. D. (2020). Mechanisms of racial health disparities: Evidence on relationships between coping and psychological and physiological stress responses from MIDUS II. Ethnicity and Disease, 30(4), 563-574.
Smith, J. A., Watkins, D. C., & Griffith, D. M. (2020). Reducing health inequities facing boys and young men of colour in the United States. Health Promotion International, 36(5), 1508-1515.
Opozda, M., Bonson, J., Vigona, J., Aanundsen, D., Paradisis, C., Anderson, P., Stahl, G., & Watkins, D. C., et al. (2024). Navigating the cultural adaptation of a US-based online mental health education and support program for use with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in the Northern Territory, Australia: Processes, outcomes, and key learnings. International Journal for Equity in Health, Interprofessional Practice and Education, 23, 165.
Abelson, J. M., Burgess, H., Limtiaco, F., Long, E., Brown, B. R., Hannawalt-Morales, D., Allen, E., & Watkins, D. C. (2024). State Department of Health's Equitable Funding Allocation Methodology to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among High-Risk and Underserved Populations. American Journal of Public Health, 28, e1-e6.
Hong, S., Ribaudo, J. M., Safyer, P., Routte, I. E., & Watkins, D. C. (2025). Advancing psychodynamic-based clinical social work practice to address structural trauma: Integrating neuroscience and attachment theory. Social Work, 70(2), 121-130.
Cascino, T. M., Colvin, M., Lanfearb, D., Richards, B., Khalatbari, S., Mann, D. L., Taddei-Peters, W. C., Jeffriese, N., Watkins, D. C., Stewart, G. C., & Aaronson, K. D. (2022). Racial inequities in access to VAD and transplant persist after consideration for preferences for care: A report from the Registry Evaluation for Vital Information for VADs in Ambulatory Life (REVIVAL). Circulation: Heart Failure, 16(1),
Varma, D. S., Samuels, E., Piatt, G., Watkins, D. C., Spiroff, M., Cottler, L., Gaxiola, S. A., & Murphy, S. L. (2022). Community health workers and promotoras' perspectives of a research best practice course: A focus group study. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 6(1), e137.
Spolum, M., Lopez, W., Watkins, D. C., & Fleming, P. J. (2023). Reducing the harms of policing through alternative unarmed response teams. American Journal of Public Health, 113(S1), S37-S42.
Ahmed, Y., van Bakel, P. A. J., Hou, H., Sukul, D., Likosky, D. S., van Herwaarden, J. A., Patel, H. J., Watkins, D. C., & Thompson, M. P. (2023). Racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis, management and outcomes of aortic stenosis in the medicare population. PloS ONE, 18(4), e0281811.
Williams, E. G., Casanova, A., & Watkins, D. C. (2023). Black boys perceptions of depression and mental health: Findings from the YBMen Project. Social Problems.
Gerlach, L. B., Turnwald, M., Geczi, K., O’Neil, T., Watkins, D. C., Bynum, J. P. W., & Maust, D. T. (2023). Factors associated with benzodiazepine and antipsychotic prescribing in hospice: A qualitative study of hospice prescribers. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, S1525-8610 (23), 00397-3.
Opozda, M. J., Galdas, P. M., Watkins, D. C., & Smith, J. A. (2024). Intersecting identities, diverse masculinities, and collaborative development: Considerations in creating online mental health interventions that work for men. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 129, 152443.
Ribeiro Brown, B., Williams, E.-D. G., Abelson, J. M., Chandrakapure, A., & Watkins, D. C. (2022). An exploratory case study of the types of resources black boys use to support their mental health. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1082.
Cascino, T. M., Somanchi, S., Colvin, M., Chung, G. S., Brescia, A. A., Pienta, M., Thompson, M. P., Stewart, J. W., Sukul, D., Watkins, D. C., Pagani, F. D., Likosky, D. S., Aaronson, K. D., & McCullough, J. S. (2022). Racial and sex inequities in the use of and outcomes after left ventricular assist device implantation among medicare beneficiaries. Cardiology, 5(7), e2223080.
Goodwill, J. R., Mattis, J., & Watkins, D. C. (2022). "I didn't know who to talk to": Black college men's sources and descriptions of social support. Psychology of Men and Masculinities, 23(2), 197-208.
Anyiwo, N. A., Rowley, S., & Watkins, D. C. (2021). "They can’t take away the light": Hip-hop culture and Black youth’s racial resistance. Youth and Society, 54(4), 611-634.
Goodwill, J. R., Taylor, R. J., & Watkins, D. C. (2021). Everyday discrimination, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation among African American men. Archives of Suicide Research, 25(1), 74-93.

Experience
Year Description
2024-2029 Letha A. Chadiha Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2019-present Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2017-2018 Joint Doctoral Program Director, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2015-2019 Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2009-2024 Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2009-2015 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2007-present Research Investigator, Institute for Social Research, Program for Research on Black Americans, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2007-present Research Investigator, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
2006-2007 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2003-2006 Graduate Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Health Disparities (CSHD), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2002-2005 Independent Study, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
2000 Intern, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
2000 Laboratory Assistant, Human Biological Variations Laboratory, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
1999 Intern, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

Honors and Awards
Year Description
2024 Letha A. Chadiha Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work,University of Michigan
2024 Most Promising New Textbook Award
2024 Listed Among the World’s Top 2% Scientists. Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citationindicators", Elsevier Data Repository, V6, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.6
2024 Pynn-Silvermann Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 2022 Distinguished Faculty Award
2020 University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
2019 Presidential Task Force on Advancing Social and Emotional Development of Black Boys through Research, Advocacy and Community Engagement
2019 Senior Scientific Advisor for the Campaign for Black Male Achievement
2019 Thought Leader Award for Peer-Reviewed Publications
2018 2018 Outstanding Alumni /award Texas A&M University, College of Education and Human Development
2014 Phil Jenkins Award for Innovation in Depression Treatment, University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2013-2015 American Psychological Association (APA) Working Group on Health Disparities in Boys and Men, Member
2012-2014 Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Mental Health, Cornell Medical Center, Scholar
2012-2014 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Awardee
2011-2012 Finalist, Professor of the Year, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2010-2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Awardee
2010-2011 Finalist, Professor of the Year, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
2007-2009 National Institute of Health Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
2007-2009 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Awardee
2007-2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Initiative Award Recipient
2006 University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Minority Scholar

Presentations
Year Description
2003 Watkins, D. C., Green, B. L., & Rivers, B. (2003, November). Center for the Study of Health Disparities: Inequalities in health, opportunities for change. Presented at the Health Services & Outcomes Research Conference, Houston, TX.
2004 Watkins, D. C. (2004, October). Exploring "Human genetic variation and health: New assessment approaches based on ethnogenetic layering" by Fatimah L. C. Jackson. Visionary Scholars Presentation, Center for the Study of Health Disparities, College Station, TX.
2005 Watkins, D. C., & Rowell, K. (2005, May). Mental health and minority populations, "Brazos Valley Health" KEOS 89.1, College Station, TX.
2005 Rivers, B. M., & Watkins, D. C. (2005, February). The center for the study of health disparities: Inequalites in health opportunities for change. "Brazos Valley Health" KEOS 89.1, College Station, TX, Radio Interview.
2005 Watkins, D. C. (2005, February). Keeping it real: The truth about graduate school (panelist). Presented at the Black Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Courses
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