Charles 'Teenie' Harris Photo Archive
The Carnegie Museum of Art is home to the photographic collection of Charles "Teenie" Harris, who documented life in Pittsburgh's Hill...
Writer, Social Psychiatrist
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The Unstable Public-Health Ecology of the NY Metropolitan Region
This paper examines the inability of a divided society to respond to public health challenges, and the implications of accelerated...
Synergism of Plagues
This seminal paper presented the connection between the planned shrinkage and contagious housing destruction in the Bronx and the...
Magic Strategies
This paper proposes that "magic strategies" involving multiple scales and multiple systems will be effective in managing complex health...
Collective consciousness and its pathologies: Understanding failure of AIDS control and treatment
Collective consciousness and its pathologies: Understanding the failure of AIDS control and treatment in the United States examines the...
Children's Lived Spaces in the Inner City
This important paper traces the changing experience of growing up in Pittsburgh's Hill District in three distinct eras. AUTHOR: Eva-Maria...
Street by Street, Block by Block: How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke
This groundbreaking special section of the Roanoke Times presented the city's history of urban renewal. AUTHOR: Mary Bishop. PUBLISHED:...
Serial Forced Displacement in American Cities, 1916–2010
This paper describes the recurrent upheaval that has undermined stability of African American communities over a 100 year period. AUTHOR:...
Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession
This paper presents Mindy Fullilove's concept of "root shock," based on the lifestory of David Jenkins and Mary Bishop's reporting on...
Root Shock : Comic Book
This comic book based on the essay Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession and adapted/illustrated by Michelle...
Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention
This introductory essay and set of accompanying papers – Blowback: new formal perspectives on agriculturally driven pathogen evolution...
Envisioning "Complete Recovery" as an alternative to "Unmitigated Disaster"
This paper describes the recovery of Enschede, a city in the Netherlands that suffered from a huge explosion and was rapidly rebuilt, and...
Psychiatric Implications of Displacement: Contributions from the Psychology of Place
This essay draws on findings in the psychology of place to propose three areas of psychiatric distress after geographic displacement....
NYC RECOVERS: Promoting Collective Recovery through Organizational Mobilization
This paper describes the work of NYC RECOVERS, a disaster relief effort to mobilize organizations to respond to population distress in...
Injury and Anomie: Effects of Violence on an Inner-City Community
This paper describes the reactions of people living and working in Washington Heights New York to the violence that shook the area in the...
Hillscapes: A Scrapbook
This "scrapbook" is collected documents of an 18-month project to examine the legacy and ongoing threat of displacement in Pittsburgh's...
What Did Ian Tell God? School Violence in East New York
This study used situation analysis to examine the interpersonal conflict and embedding context of fatal school shootings at Thomas...
From Enforcers to Guardians
This book is a primer examining the ways in which public health practitioners can help to end police violence. AUTHORS: Hannah L.F....
The CLIMB Chronicles: City Life Is Moving Bodies
This monograph presents the story of the first 13 years of the City Life Is Moving Bodies (CLIMB) Project, which advocated for the...
The Family to Family Program: a structural intervention with implications for HIV/AIDS prevention
The Family to Family program used monthly "reunion dinners" to strengthen Harlem families, with implications for the prevention of...
Constructing Peace: Helping Youth Cope in the Aftermath of 9/11
This paper presents the work of NYC RECOVERS to support youth in the aftermath of 9/11. AUTHORS: Lourdes J. Hernández-Cordero, DrPH,...
Building Momentum: An Ethnographic Study of Inner-City Redevelopment
This paper presents the results of 3 year study of families who moved into renovated housing in the Bradhurst neighborhood in Harlem....
The Influence of Change on the Well-Being of a Population: The Berlin Wall
This paper presents interviews with men and women from "East" and "West" Berlin as they they lived through the rise and fall of the Wall....
AIDS, Violence and Behavioral Coding
This paper describes the ways in which behavior changes as social organization changes. AUTHORS: Rodrick Wallace, Mindy Thompson...