Emily Nicklett joined the UM SSW faculty after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center on Aging and Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her active research agenda concerns social and contextual determinants of health in later life. She specializes in strategies for successful chronic disease management among diverse older populations. Her research has been published in prominent interdisciplinary journals, such as Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and Qualitative Social Work