People
Keith Whitfield
Education
Texas Tech University, Ph.D. and M.A.
College of Santa Fe, B.A.
Expertise
Dr. Keith E. Whitfield received a B.A. in Psychology from the College of Santa Fe and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Life span Developmental Psychology from Texas Tech University and did post-doctoral work in quantitative genetics at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His research examines the etiology of individual variation in health and individual differences in cognition due to health conditions. He has worked with researchers from Sweden, Russia, Finland, and the United States. He has been a continuously funded researcher for more than 20 years through NIA, NIH, and NSF with grant funding totaling more than $25 million and has authored or co-authored over 250 journal articles, books and book chapters. His current research focuses on the relationship between stress and longevity in African American families.