ANN ARBOR—Researchers from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan are joining together April 30 to launch “Healthier Black Elders,” a program that is part of the newly established Michigan Center for Urban African-American Aging Research, funded by a $2.1 million grant from the National Institute on Aging.

Principal investigators are James Jackson, director of the Program for Research on Black Americans at the U-M Institute for Social Research, and Peter Lichtenberg, interim director of the WSU Institute of Gerontology.

Both will be available to discuss the health of older Black Americans at an open house Friday ( For more information about the event, contact Carol Baldwin at Wayne State University at (313) 577-2150.