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HOUSING, URBAN SPACE AND HEALTH

Dr Mindy Fullilove, Columbia University

Prevention Justice Seminar

November 1, 2004

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove MD, is a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. After several years of work as a community psychiatrist, Dr. Fullilove joined the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at its founding in 1986. She moved to New York in 1990 and has continued to study AIDS and other problems of inner-city neighborhoods.

Most recently, with support of a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, she has studied the long-term consequences of urban renewal for African American people. As part of that work, she co-founded NYC RECOVERS, an alliance of organizations concerned with the social and emotional recovery of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11. This project provided the data for her forthcoming book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, June 2004, Ballantine Books.



Recommended Readings
Space and Health



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I A Plague on your houses. Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace.

II Psychiatric Implications of Displacement: Contributions From the Psychology of Place. Mindy Thompson Fullilove. In The American Journal of Psychiatry; Dec 1996; 153, 12.

III A Synergism of Plagues: “Planned Shrinkage”, Contagious Housing Destruction, and AIDS in the Bronx, Wallace R. In Environmental Research 47, 1-33 (1998).