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722 West 168th Street, 17th Floor #1713
New York, NY 10032
Email:[email protected]
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Education and Training
| MPH
| 1997
| Columbia University
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| MD
| 1991
| Cornell University
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| BA
| 1986
| Purdue University, W. Lafayette
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons (home dept.)
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| Dr. Pamela Collins’ work focuses on mental health and psychosocial aspects of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. In the United States, her studies have addressed the HIV prevention needs of women with severe mental illness. Dr. Collins and colleagues developed the HIV prevention curriculum, "Our Selves, Our Bodies, Our Realities" to help women reduce risky sexual encounters, thereby reducing their risk of HIV infection. Dr. Collins’ work also examines the contribution of social stigma related to mental illness and ethnicity to women’s HIV risk. Internationally, she has conducted training of healthcare providers in mental health, HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, and counseling in Argentina, Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa. In South Africa, specifically, Dr. Collins’ work has examined the role of mental health care providers in development of HIV prevention interventions in psychiatric settings and the community mental health impact of HIV/AIDS. She has served as a consultant to the Directorate of Mental Health in South Africa and as a
member of its Task Team for Policy Guidelines on HIV/AIDS in Psychiatric Institutions. Dr. Collins is a member of the mental health working group for the WHO 3x5 Initiative. She is the co-director of the Initiative for Minority Student Development at the Mailman School of Public Health, offered in the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology.
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