Recruitment and Retention in Minority Populations: Lessons Learned in Conducting Research on Health Promotion and Minority Aging

Sue E. Levkoff, ScD, is an associate professor in psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She currently serves as the director for the Positive Aging Resource Center, a national technical assistance center for enhancing behavioral health services for older adults.

Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, is Director and Professor in the Community Health Sciences Division, and co-director of the Center for Research on Health and Aging, Health Research and Policy Centers, at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.

Patricia Flynn Weitzman, PhD, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH, is professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Health, School of Rural Public Health (SRPH) at The Texas A&M Health Science Center in College Station, Texas.