Tanisha Hill-Jarrett, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She is additionally interested in improving the measurement and tracking of adverse social exposures (e.g., structural racism and sexism) to better understand how they shape cognitive aging trajectories and association with incident ADRD among Black older adults. As a scientist and clinician, she is committed to making wellness and brain health accessible and participates in the Memory and Aging Center Black/African American Community Outreach Team. Dr. Hill-Jarrett uses Afrofuturism in her community-based work with Black women as a framework to create counternarratives and reimagine the future through a lens of hope. She seeks to incorporate Afrofuturism as a tool for brain health among community-dwelling Black elders and a praxis that drives social change and centers aging Black women.

• Associations of Everyday and Lifetime Experiences of Discrimination With Willingness to Undergo Alzheimer Disease Predictive Testing.
  Neurology 2024 Hill-Jarrett TG, Choi M, Buto PT, Miramontes S, Thomas MD, Yang Y, Kim MH, Sims KD, Glymour MM
• Empathy as a crucial skill in disrupting disparities in global brain health.
  Frontiers in neurology 2023 Fitri FI, Lage C, Mollayeva T, Santamaria-Garcia H, Chan M, Cominetti MR, Daria T, Fallon G, Gately D, Gichu M, Giménez S, Zuniga RG, Hadad R, Hill-Jarrett T, O'Kelly M, Martinez L, Modjaji P, Ngcobo …
• Spouses of individuals living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia in the United States: A descriptive, population-based study.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Torres JM, Flores Romero KR, Kotwal AA, Chen R, Hill-Jarrett T, Mitchell UA, Glymour MM
• Food Insecurity, Memory, and Dementia Among US Adults Aged 50 Years and Older.
  JAMA network open 2023 Qian H, Khadka A, Martinez SM, Singh S, Brenowitz WD, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Hill-Jarrett TG, Glymour MM, Vable AM
• The Black radical imagination: a space of hope and possible futures.
  Frontiers in neurology 2023 Hill-Jarrett TG
• Exploring factors contributing to caregiver burden in family caregivers of congolese adults with suspected dementia.
  International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2023 Ikanga J, Reyes A, Zhao L, Hill-Jarrett TG, Hammers D, Epenge E, Esambo H, Kavugho I, Esselakoy C, Gikelekele G, Tshengele N, Alonso A, Robinson-Lane SG
• Riding the merry-go-round of racial disparities in ADRD research.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Adkins-Jackson PB, Kraal AZ, Hill-Jarrett TG, George KM, Deters KD, Besser LM, Avila-Rieger JF, Turney I, Manly JJ
• The structural and social determinants of Alzheimer's disease related dementias.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Adkins-Jackson PB, George KM, Besser LM, Hyun J, Lamar M, Hill-Jarrett TG, Bubu OM, Flatt JD, Heyn PC, Cicero EC, Zarina Kraal A, Pushpalata Zanwar P, Peterson R, Kim B, Turner RW, Viswanathan J, …
• A developmental approach to diversifying neuroscience through effective mentorship practices: perspectives on cross-identity mentorship and a critical call to action.
  Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2023 Hill-Jarrett TG, Ng R, Cardenas-Iniguez C, Akinsanya J, Blanco I, Borland JM, Brown JS, Clemons T, Cushnie AK, Garcia J, George B, Hassinan CW, Hines TJ, Landayan D, McCorkle TA, Meckel KR, Metcalfe M…
• “Ooh, you got to holler sometime”: Pain meaning and experiences of Black older adults
  Meanings of Pain: Vulnerable or Special Groups of People 2022 Sheria Robinson-Lane, Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett, Mary R. Janevic
• The role of coping in the relationship between endorsement of the strong Black woman schema and depressive symptoms among Black women
  Journal of Black Psychology 2021 Martinique K. Jones, Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett, Kyjeila Latimer, Akilah Reynolds, Nekya Garrett, Ivyonne Harris, Stephanie Joseph, Alexis Jones
• Gendered racism and subjective cognitive complaints among older black women: The role of depression and coping.
  The Clinical neuropsychologist 2021 Hill-Jarrett TG, Jones MK
• Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter
  Psychosocial and physical contextual factors in cognitive aging in older Blacks 2021 Ketlyne Sol, Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett
• Education differentially contributes to cognitive reserve across racial/ethnic groups.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020 Avila JF, Rentería MA, Jones RN, Vonk JMJ, Turney I, Sol K, Seblova D, Arias F, Hill-Jarrett T, Levy SA, Meyer O, Racine AM, Tom SE, Melrose RJ, Deters K, Medina LD, Carrión CI, Díaz-Santos M, Byrd DR…
• Neuropsychology in Africa
  Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology 2018 Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett, Jean Ikanga, Anthony Y. Stringer
• Normal development of context processing using the AXCPT paradigm.
  PloS one 2018 Polizzotto NR, Hill-Jarrett T, Walker C, Cho RY
• Visuospatial attention after traumatic brain injury: The role of hemispheric specialization.
  Brain injury 2015 Hill-Jarrett TG, Gravano JT, Sozda CN, Perlstein WM