The Consortium Of African-American Public Health Programs

CAAPHP is the acronym for the Consortium of African American Public Health Programs. CAAPHP is a group of seven public health programs/schools that are housed at the nation’s premiere Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

The Consortium is the sum of its significant parts. CAAPHP’s member-institutions include three of the nation’s leading medical schools for training African American physicians, nurses and public health professionals and four graduate programs/schools that address inequalities that diminish the lives and restrain the potential of our communities.

DIRECTORS

Sondos Islam

Acting Director

PhD, MPH, MS

Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science

Dr. Islam has been appointed as the Acting Director of the Urban MPH Program, College of Science and Health, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Islam earned her B.S. and M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Washington in 1980. In 1982, she co-founded a polyclinic in an underserved area, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where she was the administrative and laboratory director for ten years. She earned her MPH degree in Epidemiology/Biostatistics and her PhD in Preventive Medicine/Health Behavior Research from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2001 and 2004, respectively.

Her research interests include investigating the risk factors influencing smoking behavior among ethnically diverse adolescents, the socio-cultural factors influencing breast self-examination and mammography among immigrant women from developing countries, and evaluating public health programs in urban settings.