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Associate Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| For the last decade, Dr. Nancy VanDevanter has conducted community-based participatory research in Northern Manhattan where she has strong ties to community-based organizations. Her paper "Developing a Collaborative Community, Academic, Health Department Partnership for STD Prevention: the Gonorrhea Community Action
Project in Harlem" describes her approach to community partnership. Dr. VanDevanter has conducted numerous intervention studies focused on health issues that disproportionately effect minority communities including HIV, STDs, and tobacco use. She was principal investigator for Women In Group Support (WINGS) a theory driven randomized trial, with a multi-session, group/skills training intervention, conducted among Latino and African American adolescents in Northern Manhattan who were at high risk for HIV/STDs. For eight years she was principal investigator for the Gonorrhea Community Action Project (GCAP), a CDC-funded multi-level, multi-site intervention to increase health care seeking and diagnosis and treatment of STDs for high-risk adolescents.
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