Community Member

Debra Kalmuss

Biography

Debra Kalmuss has been a member of BJ for the past 11 years. She is a sociologist who was a Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University for 34 years. Her areas of focus were sexual health and refining a model of service-based research (research designed in collaboration with service providers, program staff or policy makers with the aim of directly enhancing the quality of services, programs and/or policy). Dr. Kalmuss has trained generations of skilled public health professionals who are conducting service-based research in settings around the world. Dr. Kalmuss is from a working-class community in Brooklyn, a point of origin that has heavily influenced her life and work.

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