Philip Alcabes is currently Associate Professor of Urban Public Health and Coordinator for the MPH program in Community Health Education. He also holds a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor appointment at the Yale University School of Nursing.  

Prof. Alcabes is an infectious-disease epidemiologist, trained at Columbia and Johns Hopkins, with over 20 years’ experience researching social aspects of AIDS as well as TB, and other communicable epidemic diseases. He has authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed research articles in the American Journal of Epidemiology, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, and other journals. He has also been a critic of standard dogma on public-health issues, writing essays and op-ed pieces that have been published in the American Scholar, in the Washington Post, Newsday, and the
Chronicle of Higher Education. Lately his research has turned to the history of contagion control and the social construction of epidemics, on which topic he’s writing a book.  

Prof. Alcabes teaches epidemiology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, infectious disease and communicable-disease-control courses, and courses on ethics in public health. He is a member of the College’s Human Subjects Research Committee and the Council on Honors, the Internal Advisory Board of the Hunter Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health, as well as the Scientific Advisory Committee to the World Trade Center Health Registry Project of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.