The Black History Committee of Orange County Inc.
Annual Black History Gala
March 8, 2008
Presents
Dr.  Alvin Poussaint

Dr. Poussaint is one of the nation's leading psychiatrists. He is director of the media center of the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, a professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School, and an expert on race relations in America and the dynamics of prejudice. He has pioneered the view that violent racism is a form of mental illness. After getting his medical degree in psychiatry, he served as the southern field director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Jackson, Mississippi, providing medical care to civil rights workers and helping desegregate southern health facilities.

In 1996, when Mario Cooper, a black PWA lawyer who chaired AIDS Action Council, founded Leading for Life at Harvard University to mobilize then-scarce black leaders to speak out about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community, Dr. Poussaint was one of the first to sign on to the effort. Leading for Life has since morphed into the Harvard AIDS Institute, a multimillion-dollar public-health organization that promotes research, education and leadership to end the AIDS epidemic.

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