Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson is an Assistant Professor on the Tenure track at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia.

She earned her BSN, MSN, and PhD in nursing and specializes as a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.

In 2019, she earned her Ph.D. from Oregon Health and Science University, where her studies focused on how the caregiving experiences of African-American dementia pairs (i.e. , African-American persons living with dementia and their African-American family caregivers) were associated with their quality of life.

In our conversation today, we discuss her past and current research regarding African American dementia caregivers and their care partners, the challenges of accessing needed services, the disparity in healthcare, and the important need for support.