Dr. Stacy W. Smallwood is an Associate Professor 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.  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, with the belief 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 serves is a past chair of the HIV/AIDS Section for the American Public Health Association. He currently serves as the vice-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.

Disciplines: Community Health Behavior and Education

Teaching Interests: Theoretical Perspectives of the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health, Research Methods in Health Science, Modifying Health Behaviors, Cultural Competence in Public Health