Stacy W. Smallwood

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ABOUT STACY W. SMALLWOOD

Biography, Disciplines and Teaching InterestsThe Rev. Dr. Stacy W. Smallwood is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the Faith COMPASS Coordinating Center at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He also is a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and Public Health at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and a core faculty member for the Maya Angelou Research Center for Healthy Communities (MARCH) at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Previously, he served as an associate professor of community health and founding director of the Office of Health Equity and Community Engagement in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. He was also affiliate faculty in the Women\'s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Smallwood\'s graduate instruction is in health promotion, education, and behavior, and his specialized training is in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention. His research focuses on promoting equity in health and well-being among marginalized communities. He believes that scholarship and activism should work together to promote empowerment. His interests include HIV prevention, sexual health, LGBT health, discrimination and health, and community engagement and organizing within marginalized communities. In particular, he is interested in the effects of psychosocial and structural factors on HIV risk among sexual minority people of color. He also consults with community-based HIV prevention organizations on the evaluation of their evidence-based interventions. He is a past chair of the HIV/AIDS Section for the American Public Health Association. He served as the moderator for the Bulloch County Beloved Community, a grassroots organization with the purpose of building connections across lines of social difference in Statesboro, GA and surrounding areas. He previously served as the chair of the One Boro Commission, the city commission for diversity and inclusion in Statesboro, GA. Dr. Smallwood earned his MPH and PhD from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice in the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.