News & Events 2002-2003

Dr. Robert Fullilove Challenges Blair Students

Dr. Robert Fullilove, professor at Columbia University, spoke to the Blair community on Thursday, October 3 in Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts.

Dr. Fullilove challenged Blair students to see the relevancy of the AIDS epidemic to their lives and to consider a career in public health, a field that continues to grow and that is well-suited to those who believe they can communicate and problem-solve with at-risk communities.

Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D. is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and Associate Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He currently co-directs the Community Research Group at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University along with his wife, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD. The Fulliloves are also co-directors of a newly formed degree program in Urbanism and Community Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Dr. Fullilove has authored numerous articles on crack cocaine use, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, minority health, and mathematics and science education. 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 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.

Dr. Fullilove received his B.A. from Colgate University, a M.S. in Instructional Technology from Syracuse University, and a Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has twice been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the graduating class at the Mailman School of Public Health, and in May, 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education.

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