Philip Alcabes

Philip Alcabes is associate professor at the School of Health Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York. An infectious-disease epidemiologist who has written extensively on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other community-acquired infections, in recent years he has consulted on AIDS-prevention projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and studied social aspects of the AIDS pandemic. His work has appeared in the American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, and the Washington Post.

Published in VQR

• Heart of Darkness: AIDS, Africa, and Race, Winter 2006