Philip Alcabes is currently Professor of Urban Public Heath at Hunter College’s School of Health Sciences and in the Public Health program at the Doctoral School, both in the City University of New York. He is also a member of the Hunter College Council on Honors, coordinating the undergraduate interdisciplinary honors program in the Hunter’s School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his CUNY appointments he holds a visiting faculty appointment at the Yale School of Nursing.
Alcabes has spent the past ten years studying the history, ethics, and policy of public health. His essays on these topics have appeared in The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as peer-reviewed journals. Previously, he conducted epidemiologic research on the epidemiology of AIDS and other community-acquired infections, social issues in the spread of epidemics, and methods for the statistical study of infectious diseases. Outside the university, Alcabes is a member of the scientific advisory board of the World Trade Center Registry project in NYC. He has consulted on public-health policy and AIDS-prevention projects in Eastern Europe for the Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development Program, World AIDS Foundation, and Fogarty International Foundation of the National Institutes of Health.
Alcabes graduated from Union College and holds masters degrees in biochemistry (U. of California, Berkeley) and public health (Columbia University). He earned a Ph.D. in infectious-disease epidemiology in 1993 from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He lives in the Bronx, New York.
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