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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...

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...

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...

Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention

This introductory essay and set of accompanying papers – Blowback: new formal perspectives on agriculturally driven pathogen evolution...

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....

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...

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...

Black Women and AIDS

This paper discusses the structure of risk for HIV infection among Black women. AUTHORS: Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD; Robert E....