Robert Elliot Fullilove (born January 25, 1944) is an American public health researcher and civil rights activist.
He is a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Associate Dean of Community and Minority Affairs.
[5] As the HIV spread around the United States, Nixon's creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration meant that people of colour were disproportionately being locked up in prison.
[7] Fullilove has argued that drug abuse is first and foremost a public health challenge, and should not be treated as a criminal justice issue.
[5] Fullilove has argued that society, and particularly mass incarceration, allowed HIV/AIDS to disproportionally impact people from minority backgrounds.
[15] Looking back on a decade of the initiative, Fullilove said "the success of this program in creating college graduates committed to pursuing careers in public health cannot be underestimated".