Crystal Fuller is an Investigator in the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at The New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Fuller completed her M.P.H. in epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health, and earned her Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Dr. Fuller is an infectious disease epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Fuller has extensive experience in design, conduct and analysis of cross-section and follow-up studies focusing on HIV, STDs and hepatitis infections among urban populations, using a community-based approach.
Dr. Fuller has conducted clinical research among HIV-positive adolescents in an inner-city public health clinic in New Orleans, and has coordinated and directed the local Baltimore site of the multi-city Collaborative Injection Drug User Study (CIDUS-II), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, Dr. Fuller's work involves assessing adolescent and young adult drug-users' risk for HIV, HCV and other blood-borne pathogens. Dr. Fuller is studying the effect of high-risk social networks and high-risk psychosocial factors on the transition from illicit non-injection drug use to injection drug use among street-recruited youth and young adults in Harlem and the South Bronx. In addition, Dr. Fuller has recently been involved with the policy evaluation of increased access to sterile syringes through health care providers and pharmacies as a harm reduction measure for active injection drug users in New York City.
Contact information: (212) 987-5674, cfuller@nyam.org
Click here for a list of Dr. Fuller's available publications in PubMed.
