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Candidus "Candi" Nwakasi, PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, United States

Dr. Candi Nwakasi is an Assistant Professor with a focus on Aging and Gerontology at the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut. Trained in gerontology and public health, Candi’s research is broadly focused on understanding and examining sociocultural and psychosocial factors that influence the health and well-being of marginalized people as they age. His interests include cancer survivorship in disadvantaged populations, cognitive health and decline, and health care and support access in older and disadvantaged populations. He has received multiple funding for his work including one from NIH, through the Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (RI-INBRE), to evaluate cancer survivorship in Blacks and Latinx in Rhode Island. He is a co-founder of Black in Gerontology and Geriatrics, a 2023 Black Men’s Brain Health Fellow, part of the 2023 Michigan Integrative Well-Being and Inequality (MIWI) cohort, and serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Aging Studies. He hopes to use his work to inform tailored, equity-based, culturally relevant care and interventions.

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