Robert E. Fullilove, III, Ed.D. is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He received his BA from Colgate University, a masters in Instructional Technology from Syracuse University, and an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University.

He currently directs the masters program in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia and is the co-director of the Community Research Group. His research has focused on the impact of drug treatment programs on the lives of men and women addicted to crack cocaine and other drugs. He has authored numerous articles on HIV/AIDS, minority health, substance abuse, and mathematics and science education. In 1998 he was named a visiting Falk Fellow (alongwith his wife, Mindy T. Fullilove, MD) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

In 1995 Dr. Fullilove was appointed to the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Institute of Medicine and in 1998 was appointed to the Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control. He also serves on the editorial board of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases.