Daniel S Blumenthal Editor & Author

Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal is principal investigator for the Prevention Research Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. He is professor and chair of the school's Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and associate dean for Community Programs. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of New Orleans (Tulane Division) and received his master of public health degree from Emory University. He is board certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine.

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Dr. Ralph J. DiClemente is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and associate director, Emory Center for AIDS Research. He holds concurrent appointments as professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology; and the Department of Psychiatry. He was most recently chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Dr. DiClemente was trained as a health psychologist at the University of California San Francisco where he received his PhD in 1984 after completing an MSPH in Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health and his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York. Dr. DiClemente has published extensively in the area of HIV/STD prevention, particularly among adolescents and young adults. He has authored more than 200 articles, chapters and books.

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Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD, is Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine. He is also Director of Research at the Department of Family Medicine and Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse.

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Selina A. Smith, PhD, MDiv, Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Smith has worked in cancer and community-based participatory research for the past 19 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition from Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida), a Master of Science (Florida International University, Miami, Florida) and Doctorate in Human Nutrition (Howard University, Washington, DC). She also earned a Master of Divinity Degree from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in 2005. Her specific areas of interest are translational research, health disparities research, cancer epidemiology and cancer control and prevention. Before joining the faculty of MSM's Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine in 1998, Dr. Smith was a faculty member at the University of Miami School of Medicine (Miami, Florida) and Georgetown University College of Medicine (Washington, DC). She currently serves as the Community Outreach Core Director and Evaluator of the MSM component of the MSM/TU/UAB Cancer Center Partnership. She is also funded by the Collaborative Community Engagement Research Program of the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the MSM Cancer Education Program.