AIDS Prevention for African-Americans Lecture
Featuring Robert E. Fullilove II, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

Fullilove
Courtesy Columbia University

Even though black Americans make up about 12 percent of the country's population, they account for half of new AIDS cases, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Columbia University HIV/AIDS expert Robert E. Fullilove II will disucss recommendations for preventing AIDS among African Americans at a lecture Thursday, February 22, at noon in the Diboll Auditorium at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal St. 

Fullilove, associate dean for community and minority affairs at Columbia University Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, will also address health care disparities, especially in minority communites. He has been actively engaged in the Harlem and Washington Heights communities as a researcher interested in the impact of crack cocaine on neighborhood life, and as director of the Harlem Household Survey at Harlem Hospital Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

The lecture is sponsored by the Prevention Research Center, African & African Diaspora Studies, Connect to Protect Community Partner Coalition, and State Farm's Good Neighbor Program.