David Lounsbury, Ph.D. is an investigator of the HIV Center's Global Community Core and is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY. He is a founding member of the Division of Community Collaboration and Dissemination Science and Director of its Practice-Based Research Core Dr. Lounsbury employs ecologically-grounded social science methodologies – such as participatory action research and system dynamics modeling – to study how individuals’ health and well-being can be enhanced through community involvement and organization. Dr. Lounsbury received his Doctorate in Community Psychology and Urban Studies from Michigan State University in 2002. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Psycho-Oncology in 2005 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as a member of the research faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 2005 through 2008. His on-going research efforts address cancer and HIV health disparities, locally and internationally, via community-focused interventions to improve or expand access to health services, support systems for patients and families, and rehabilitation and survivorship. He is Co-Chair of the Community Health Interest Group of the Society of Community Research and Action (American Psychological Association, Division 27). In collaboration with Einstein’s Global Health Program, he serves as Co-PI for an international clinical research partnership in psycho-oncology and prostate cancer epidemiology with the University College Hospital and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

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