Paul Brown

I am an MPH candidate at NYU's College of Global Public Health, where my research interests are LGBT health, risk behavior among minority communities and sexual health policy and advocacy in the Arab world. Currently I am a research intern at NYU's Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies where I am assisting in Dr. Perry Halkitis' P18 longitudinal study. Prior to my time at NYU I received an MA from the University of Arizona's School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS). It was during my time at MENAS where my interests shifted from LGBT identity, broadly speaking, in the Arab world, to LGBT sexual health in this region. Before my return to higher education, I lived and worked for three years in Washington, DC for both an Arab American civic engagement group and an LGBT advocacy organization. Though LGBT health in the Arab world remains my primary interest, as a Lebanese-American I have found that Arab-Americans are often overlooked as a demographic in population studies. This study is a modest attempt to fill that gap.

April 2016