Hunter College Urban Public Health Professor Philip Alcabes Presents TIAA-CREF Outstanding Lecture about Bioterrorism and Public Health

Date: April 30, 2003
Contact: Marisa Osorio (marisa.osorio@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 650-3736; Cell: (646) 235-2391

Hunter College Urban Public Health Professor Philip Alcabes will give the TIAA-CREF outstanding lecture on "Selling the Unimaginable: Bioterrorism and Public Health," Thursday, May 8, 2003 at 5 p.m.

The lecture, which will be given in the Faculty Dining Room, 8th Floor, Hunter College West Building, southwest corner of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, recognizes the scholarly work of the Hunter faculty by selecting an exception member of the faculty each year.  Nominees are chosen for outstanding scholarship and contribution to the college.

Alcabes is also an infectious-disease epidemiologist, who has written numerous research articles, reviews and commentaries on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other community-acquired infections; social issues in the study of epidemic spread; and ethical issues in health research.  He is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the World Trade Center Registry project in New York City.

In recent years, he has consulted on health education and training programs and AIDS-prevention projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union for the Pan-American Health Organization, Open society Institute, World AIDS Foundation, and Fogarty International Foundation of the National Institutes of Health.

Professor Alcabes has master's degrees in biochemistry and public health and earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology in 1993 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.

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