Dr. Robert Fullilove 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.

Areas of expertise
HIV/AIDS; substance use; health risks in communities of color

Recent publications

Golembeski C, Fullilove R "Criminal (in)justice in the City and Its Associated Health Consequences.” American Journal of Public Health 95 1701-6 2005

Green LL, Fullilove MT, Fullilove, RE.  “Remembering the Lizard: Reconstructing Sexuality in the Rooms of Narcotics Anonymous." Journal of Sex Research 42 28-34 2005

Malebranch DJ, Peterson JL, Fullilove RE, Stackhouse RW.  “Race and Sexual Identity: Perceptions about Medical Culture and Healthcare among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men.” Journal of the National Medical Association 96 97-107 2004