Robert Fullilove

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Robert Fullilove
Born (1944-01-25) January 25, 1944 (age 79)
Education Colgate University (B.A.)
Syracuse University (M.S.)
Columbia University (EdD)
Spouse
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(m. 1983;div. 2009)​
Scientific career
Institutions Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Thesis A study of the relative efficiency of regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and log linear analysis in predicting the future enrollment status of educational opportunity fund students in two New Jersey colleges  (1984)

Robert Elliot Fullilove (born January 25, 1944) is an American public health researcher and civil rights activist. He is a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Associate Dean of Community and Minority Affairs. He has worked on the health of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, with a focus on sexually transmitted infections and HIV.

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Early life and education

Fullilove was born to Robert Fullilove, a physician, and Helen Fullilove. [1] Fullilove's grandfather was from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and was one of the first Black physicians in the area. [2]

Fullilove attended the Pingry School. [1] In 1966, he earned a B.A. in philosophy and religion from Colgate University. [3] In 1972, Fullilove earned a M.S. in instructional technology from Syracuse University. In 1984, Fullilove earned Ed.D. in higher and adult education and statistics from the Teachers College, Columbia University, where he studied the educational opportunities of students in New Jersey. [4]

Career

While in college, Fullilove was part of voter registration efforts in Mississippi as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. [5] [6]

In 1969 Fullilove joined the faculty State University of New York cooperative college centre, before moving to the University of California, Berkeley as a research associate. Fullilove started working on HIV/AIDS prevention in the 1980s, when 1 in 5 of Americans living with HIV were African American. [5] As the HIV spread around the United States, Nixon's creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration meant that people of colour were disproportionately being locked up in prison. [7] Fullilove has argued that drug abuse is first and foremost a public health challenge, and should not be treated as a criminal justice issue. By locking up people who were most likely to suffer from HIV, the spread of HIV/AIDS accelerated both in prisons and in the communities that prisoners returned to. [5] Fullilove has argued that society, and particularly mass incarceration, allowed HIV/AIDS to disproportionally impact people from minority backgrounds. [8]

In 1995 he joined the National Academy of Medicine (then Institute of Medicine) on the Board of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention committee. [9] He has served on various committees for the National Academy of Medicine, including those which focus on substance abuse and addition. [9] He joined Columbia University in 1990 and was promoted to Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in 2004.

From 2010 he started to teach public health in several New York State prisons through the Bard College Prison Initiative. [9] [10] [11] Whilst the programme started with only 15 students, by 2015 there were almost 300 registered each year. [12] [13] [14] He has continued to support the programme throughout his career, eventually being made a senior advisor. [15] Looking back on a decade of the initiative, Fullilove said "the success of this program in creating college graduates committed to pursuing careers in public health cannot be underestimated". [16]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fullilove became concerned that coronavirus disease would easily be transmitted around prisons and homeless shelters. [8]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

Personal life

Fullilove married Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at The New School, in 1983. [1] They divorced in 2009. [21]

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  1. 1 2 3 Fullilove, Mindy Thompson (2002-03-01). The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   978-0-8032-6906-4.
  2. ↑ "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement — Bob Fullilove". Civil Rights Movement Archive.
  3. ↑ "Robert Fullilove '66 discusses minority health issues | Colgate University". www.colgate.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. ↑ Fullilove, Robert E (1984). A study of the relative efficiency of regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and log linear analysis in predicting the future enrollment status of educational opportunity fund students in two New Jersey colleges (Thesis). OCLC   1011821225.
  5. 1 2 3 "AIDS In Black America: A Public Health Crisis". www.nhpr.org. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  6. ↑ "Episode 266: Robert Fullilove | Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen". 6 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  7. ↑ "Advancing Cultural Competence". www.albany.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  8. 1 2 "Faculty Opinion: Pandemics, Prisons, and Public Health". Bard Prison Initiative. 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bowser, Benjamin P.; Devadutt, Chelli (2019-09-01). Racial Inequality in New York City since 1965. SUNY Press. ISBN   978-1-4384-7599-8.
  10. ↑ "ASPPH | Columbia: Robert Fullilove on Panel of Judges for Inaugural List of '40 Under 40' Leaders in Public Health". www.aspph.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  11. ↑ "Robert E. Fullilove Archives". Bard Prison Initiative. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
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