She is well known for her long-running New York radio show, Medical View and You,[3] and was honored in 1996 when Mayor David Dinkins proclaimed a citywide Barbara Justice Day for her contribution to the community's health.
After attaining her MD from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC in 1977,[2] she had an interest in pursuing both surgery and psychiatry, and intended to eventually practice both.
Many felt that origin and handling of AIDS required investigation in light of historical institutional mishandling of contagious diseased, such as in the Tuskegee Study, where black patients who had syphilis were left untreated to spread the virus for more than thirty years.
[7] Justice, along with her colleagues, worked with the National Institutes of Health in 1992 to set up trials for oral interferons such as Kemron to treat AIDS, and came to promote their use.
[11] She also believed that the white conservative medical profession needed to deal with the fact that statistically, more black people were infected with AIDS worldwide than other groups.