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Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv (he/him/his)

Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Houston/Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv is Associate Dean for Research and Clinical Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. He is also Founding Director of UHPH Collaboratories - synergistic interdisciplinary research units within UH Population Health, a university-wide-initiative at the University of Houston driving improvements in quality of life.
Dr. Bruce is a sociologist and population health scientist who examines the full range of factors associated with cognitive and physical functioning among Black males over the life course and across generations. This work has been supported by the NIH over the past two decades, and related publications can be found in leading health science journals. He is an associate editor of Ethnicity and Disease and editor of the Research on Race and Ethnic Relations Book Series. Dr. Bruce has earned graduate degrees in Rehabilitation Counseling and Divinity and has served African American congregations as an ordained Baptist minister for over two decades. His current work leverages professional, educational, and clerical experiences as well as pilot funding from the National Institute of Aging to develop and evaluate comprehensive biopsychosocial models that specify how faith can “get under the skin” to slow declines in cognitive and physical functioning among Black men. This work has gained international attention as it has been featured on numerous global media outlets including USA Today, The Today Show, and Time Magazine. Dr. Bruce is committed to leveraging the strengths of research and faith communities towards efforts to improve the health of disadvantaged and disenfranchised males, their families, and other related populations. He 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.

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