© 2001 American Public Health Association
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Joyce Wilcox, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168 St, Room 945, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: jpswilcox@aol.com). CAROL EASLEY ALLEN, PHD, RN, is a thinker, a doer, and a changer. Allen is a product and a shaper of her times. The immediate past president of the American Public Health Association, She is among the first post Civil-Rights-era generation of African American women public health leaders and college administrators and is helping to define both of these pivotal roles.
This public health leader' work flows directly from who she is and where she comes from. Allen serves the poor with respect and understanding drawn from her own roots in poverty. Her special relationship with her twin sister, Cheryl FOUR YEARS IN A SEGREGATED SCHOOL OUTHOUSES IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITOL CLOSED OUT OF THE "LOCKER ROOM" RESPECTING THE STRENGTHS OF POOR PEOPLE LEARNING FROM POVERTY ABROAD REINVIGORATING PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
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