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Author Shervin Assari

Shervin Assari

Assari, MD, is a research faculty member at Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research is focused on mental health disparities due to race, ethnicity, gender, and place. With 14 years of clinical and public health research experience, Assari is the author of 150 peer-review papers. Assari is the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Frontiers in Sociology. He has reviewed for top tier journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) and American Academy of Health Behaviors (AAHB). He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and also the Scientific for Public Health in Iran (SAPHIR).

Black Americans May Be More Resilient to Stress Than White Americans

Shervin Assari

Science & Medicine

White Americans live on average 3.6 years longer than black Americans. If you look only at men, the difference becomes 4.4 years. As I found in a recent study, the main reason behind this disparity is that...