Pride Month Meet & Greet With Dean Perry Halkitis

Join the VNA’s Prevention Resource Network (PRN) for a LGBTQ Pride Month Event, An Evening with Dr. Perry Halkitis, Dean of Rutgers University School of Public Health. Thursday June 21 from 7 – 9 pm at Hotel Tides. This Meet & Greet will afford Asbury Park’s LGBTQ community to welcome Dr. Halkitis “down the shore” and chat about the future of LGBTQ healthcare. Dr. Halkitis will also be speaking on his upcoming book focusing on Gay men’s coming out stories. The event will include lite fare and a cash bar. 

About Dean Halkitis: Dr. Halkitis is the Dean and Professor of Biostatistics and Social & Behavioral Health Sciences at the Rutgers School of Public Health. He is also a professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, and School of Public Affairs and Administration, as well as a member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Halkitis is a Professor Emeritus at the College of Global Public Health, New York University. 

For more than two decades, Dr. Halkitis’ program of research has examined the intersection between HIV and other STIs, drug abuse, and mental health burden, and the biological, behavioral, psychosocial, and structural factors that predispose these and other health disparities in the LGBTQA population. His most recent work focuses on three main areas: (1) documenting the exposure to viral pathogens associated with cancer disparities in gay men (i.e., HCV, HIV, HPV); (2) understanding the psychosocial (e.g., loneliness, homophobia), biological (e.g., lack of vaccination, untreated viremia), and behavioral factors (e.g., tobacco use, sex-risk) that predispose infection with these pathogens; and (3) implementation research that integrates biomedical and behavioral approaches to deliver healthcare services to gay men.

Dr. Halkitis founded The Center for Health, Identity, Behavior & Prevention Studies, a research center that also serves as a training site for the next generation of scholars.