Our Faculty

Robert E. Fullilove, EdD is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences and the co-director of the Community Research Group. He also co-directors the newly formed degree program in Urbanism and Community Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences.

Dr Fullilove has authored numerous articles in the area of minority health. From 1995 to 2001, he served on the Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1996, he has served on five IOM study committees that have produced reports on a variety of topics including substance abuse and addiction, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and damp indoor spaces and health. In 2003 he was designated a National Associate of the National Academies of Science. In 1998 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention (ACHSP) at the Centers for Disease Control, and in July, 2000, he became the committee?s chair. Finally, in 2004, he was appointed to the National Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health [NIH].

Dr Fullilove serves on the editorial boards of the journals Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and the Journal of Public Health Policy. He has twice been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Mailman School of Public Health, and in May, 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education.

EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1984

MS, Syracuse University, 1972

BA, Colgate University, 1966

Mailman School Affiliations:

• Center for Violence Research and Prevention 

Additional Affiliations:

• National Associate of The National Academies of Science
• CDC/HRSA HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee (CHAC) 1998-2004
• Board on Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, IOM 1995-2002
• Council, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH 2004 -present

• Picker Commonwealth Scholar 1996
• Award for Teaching Excellence 1994, 2001
• Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, Bank Street College 2002
• National Associate of the National Academies, 2003
• Rev. Dr. Preston R. Washington Visionary Award 2003

Selected Editorial Boards

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Journal of Public Health Policy

Urbanism and The Built Environment
The program in Urbanism and The Built Environment is a track in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences that is directed to students wishing to learn how to understand cities and the manner in which urban life promotes health or creates disease.

Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers Project URL: http://www.perspectivesurbaines.com/

I am part of a team that works with the chair of the Department of Urbanism and the Environment at CNAM. Our work involves examining the relationship between urban areas, the built environment, social cohesion, and health

Countries: France