Public Health Research

Public Health Research is an essential peer-reviewed journal that energetically engages with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalization of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.

Ernest Quimby

Editorial Board Member of Public Health Research

Associate Professor, Dept of Sociology & Anthropology, Howard University, USA

Research Areas

Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Substance Abuse, Qualitative Research

Education

1977Ph.DCity University of New York
1970CertificatesNew School University
1968M.A. New York University Sociology
1966B.A.Long Island University (Journalism)

Experience

1993-presentAssociate Professor, Howard University; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
2005-2008Qualitative Research Consultant, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University

Academic Achievement

CTAP research collaboration to develop LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail; with LeDroit Park Community Civic Association, Howard University Community Association and Cultural Tourism DC; 2011-2013
Faculty Advisor, Researcher and Trainer; Building Knowledge and Capacity in the Rehabilitation and Recovery of African Americans Suffering from Severe Mental Illness: The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration; funded by National Institute on Disability and Rehab
Steering Planning Committee Member, Howard-Dartmouth Summer School on Promoting Recovery and Rehabilitation in Mental Health Among African Americans; HU School of Medicine; June 20-24, 2011
Planning Committee, Facilitator and Presenter, Howard-Dartmouth Collaboration 2010 Summer School on Development Workshops: Psychiatric Research with African Americans; Presented on Mixed Methods Studies: The Way Forward?; HUH School of Medicine; June 14-1
Recipient of Howard University Social Science/Humanities/Education Faculty Research grants and HU Fund for Academic Excellence grants; 2004-2010

Membership

Coordinator, HU Administration of Justice Program
Member, Executive Committee; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Chair, HU Graduate Faculty Committee; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Advisor, HU Doctoral Dissertation Committee for Ms. Gail Reivas
Advisor, HU Doctoral Dissertation Committee for Ms. Renee' Taylor
Member, HU Doctoral Dissertation Committee for Ms. Deneen Long-White
Faculty advisor to undergraduate and graduate students
Member, Graduate Program Committee; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Member, Undergraduate Program Committee; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Member, Assessment Committee; Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Member, HU College of Arts & Sciences Committee on Nominations
Member, Planning Committee for COAS 2011 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Judge & Facilitator, COAS 2011 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Howard University Campus Task Force; ongoing
Member, Howard University College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Policy and Academic Standards; 2008-2009
Participant, multi-disciplinary professional effort titled Dialogue and Strategies for Effective Holistic Health for African Americans/Blacks: Addressing the Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care; United States Department of Health and Human S
Pushing African American Males Out and Away; Presentation to Organization of Graduate Student Sociologists (OGS) Forum: Child Left Behind: African American Males and Drop-Outs; Howard University; November 12, 2010
Panel Member, African American Push-outs; OGS Forum: Howard University; February 18, 2011
Board Chair, Emergence Community Arts Collective; on-going
Member, Howard University Community Association; on-going
Member, Pleasant Plains Community Association; on-going
Member, Georgia Avenue Community Development Task Force (GACDTF); on-going
Member, GACDTF Research Committee; on-going
Member, Scientific Council of National Alliance on Mental Illness; on-going
Member, NIDA African American Researchers and Scholars Expert Work Group; on-going
Grants & Contracts Reviewer, National Institutes of Health; on-going
Advisory Board Member, Mentors of Minorities In Education; Washington, DC; on-going
Supervisory Docent, Oakley Cabin African American Historical Cabin and Museum, Montgomery County, MD, National Capitol Parks and Planning Commission; on-going
Humanities Scholar for Emergence Community Arts Collective Community History Summer Program; Humanities Council of Washington, DC; July-August, 2008
Co-Leader, 4-H Creators Club; Montgomery County, MD; 2004-2008

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Quimby, E. (2011). Promoting community recovery from crack cocaine. Journal of Equity in Health; special issue; In press.
[2]  Quimby, E. (2011). Doing qualitative community research: Lessons for faculty, students and the community. Bentham eBooks, Bentham Science Publishers. In press; ISBN: 978-1-60805-258-5
[3]  Quimby, E. (2009). Ethnographically exploring gentrification: Whose community is it? In A. Ivarra & P. Aguero (Eds.), Contemporary studies in ethnography (113-142). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
[4]  Carpenter-Song, E., Whitley, R., Lawson, W., Quimby, E., & Drake, R.E. (2009). Reducing disparities in mental health care: Suggestions from the Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration; Community Mental Health Journal; on-line; DOI 10.1007/s10597-009-9233-4.
[5]  Bowser, B., Quimby, E., & Singer, M. (Eds.). (2007). When communities assess their AIDS epidemics: Results of rapid assessment of HIV/AIDS in eleven U.S. cities. Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
[6]  Quimby, E. (2007). Confined youth trying to make it real, despite the odds: RARE in Baltimore City. In B. Bowser, E. Quimby, & M. Singer (Eds.), When communities assess their AIDS epidemics: Results of rapid assessment of HIV/AIDS in eleven U.S. cities (pp. 65-88). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
[7]  Quimby, E., Singer, M., & Bowser, B. (2007). Exploring the boundaries of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. In When communities assess their AIDS epidemics; 1-8; edited by B. Bowser, E. Quimby, & M. Singer. (2007). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield; Lanham, MD.
[8]  Quimby, E., & Payne-Jackson, A. (2007). AIDS in the shadow of power: Washington, D.C. In When communities assess their AIDS epidemics; 103-128; edited by B. Bowser, E. Quimby, & M. Singer. (2007). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield; Lanham, MD.
[9]  Singer, M., Bowser, B., & Quimby, E. (2007). Conclusion: Assessing primary, secondary, and future benefits of Project RARE. In When communities assess their AIDS epidemics; 231-248; edited by B. Bowser, E. Quimby, and M. Singer. (2007). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield; Lanham, MD.
[10]  Quimby, E., & Friedman, S.R. (2003). Dynamics of Black mobilization against AIDS in New York City. In P. Conrad and V. Leiter (eds.), Health and health care as social problems (pp. 145-159). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield; Lanham, MD.
[11]  Quimby, E., Drake, R.E., & Becker, D.R. (2001). Ethnographic findings from the Washington, D.C., Vocational Services Study. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 24(4), 368-374.
[12]  Quimby, E., & Payne-Jackson, A. (2007). AIDS in the shadow of power: Washington, D.C. In B. Bowser, E. Quimby, & M. Singer (Eds.), When communities assess their AIDS epidemics: Results of rapid assessment of HIV/AIDS in eleven U.S. cities (pp. 103-128). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
[13]  Quimby, E. (2006). Ethnography's role in assisting mental health research and clinical practice. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(7), 859-879.
[14]  Trumbetta, S.L., Mueser, K.T., Quimby, E., Bebout, R.R., & Teague, G.B. (1999). Social networks and clinical outcomes of dually diagnosed homeless persons. Behavior Therapy, 30, 407-430.
[15]  Quimby, E. (1994). African American perspectives on mobilizing organizational responses to drugs. In P.J. Venturelli (Ed.), Drug use in America: Social, cultural and political perspectives (pp. 135-142). Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
[16]  Quimby, E. (1993). Obstacles to reducing AIDS among African Americans. The Journal of Black Psychology, 19(2), 215-222.
[17]  Quimby, E. (1992). Anthropological witnessing for African Americans: Power, responsibility, and choice in the age of AIDS. In G. Herdt & S. Lindenbaum (Eds.), The time of AIDS: Social analysis, theory, and method (pp. 159-184). Newbury Park, London, and New Delhi: Sage Publications.
[18]  Quimby, E. (1991). Drug trafficking and the Caribbean connection: Survival mechanisms, entrepreneurship and social symptoms. The Urban League Review, 14(2), 61-70.
[19]  Quimby, E., & Friedman, S.R. (1989). Dynamics of Black mobilization against AIDS in New York City. Social Problems, 36(4), 403-415.
[20]  Friedman, S.R., Quimby, E., Sufian, M., Abdul-Quader, A., & Des Jarlais, D.C. (1988). Racial aspects of the AIDS epidemic. California Sociologist 11(1-2), 55-68.