Mindy Fullilove
Mindy Fullilove is a board certified psychiatrist who studies the connection between different environments and mental health. She received her training at New York Hospital-Westchester Division (1978-1981) and Montefiore Hospital (1981-1982). After several years of work as a community psychiatrist, Mindy 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. Her work in AIDS is featured in Jacob Levenson’s The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS in Black America.
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 book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Based on her travels in the US and France, she wrote Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities. She has received many awards for her work including the “Best Doctors in New York,” two honorary doctorates (Chatham College, 1999, and Bank Street College of Education, 2002) and election to honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects. In 2016, she joined the faculty at The New School as a professor of urban policy and health.
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