Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv is a Clinical Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Associate Dean for Research and in the University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. Dr. Bruce is also the Founding Director of UHPH Collaboratories – synergistic interdisciplinary research and training units within UH Population Health. Dr. Bruce is a sociologist and population health scientist who examines the full range of factors influencing cognitive and physical functioning among Black males over the life course and across generations. He is editor of Research on Race and Ethnic Relations and current associate editor of Ethnicity and Disease. Dr. Bruce earned a PhD in Sociology from North Carolina State University and received postdoctoral training in Family Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Biobehavioral Health from Duke University