Phil Alcabes Associate Professor	Office: BC1028W Email: palcabes@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-4362 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
An infectious-disease epidemiologist with over 20 years' experience researching social aspects of AIDS as well as TB, and other communicable epidemic diseases. Recent research has turned to the history of contagion control and the social construction of epidemics. Holds a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor appointment at the Yale University School of Nursing. 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.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Epidemiology, infectious disease and communicable-disease-control courses, ethics in public health, research evaluation, HIV/AIDS

Selected Publications:
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. 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.

Education:
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins