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DR. JAY CARRINGTON CHUNN
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
URBAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE / MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
2600 LIBERTY HEIGHTS AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD. 21215
410-383-5167 / 4110 (fax)
email: jaycchunn@yahoo.com web: www.nchbc.org
As the Director/Principal Investigator, Dr. Chunn is primarily responsible for achieving the program goals for the National Center for Health Behavioral Change as funded by the Kellogg Foundation. Hence, curriculum, development, training materials, research and scholarship of application constitutes this responsibility in conjunction with the Senior Fellows and staff of the National Center.
EDUCATION
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Degree: B.Sc.
Year Conferred: 1961
Field Study: Business Administration
Concentration: Management
Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Degree: M. Science
Year Conferred: 1965
Field Study: Social Work
Concentration: Child Therapy and Mental Health
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Degree: Ph.D.
Year Conferred: 1978
Field Study: Human Development
(American Psychological Association Listed Program)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2003 to Present
Director / Principal Investigator for the National Center for Health Behavioral Change, Kellogg Foundation funding, Baltimore, MD. Collaboration with forty Senior Fellows nationally and partnerships with local and national agencies. Senior Fellows from Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Health, Counseling, Social Work and other allied disciplines.
SELECTED HEALTH ACTIVITIES
Principal Investigator Public Health Planning Program to conceptualize, plan and establish the DrPH /MPH degree programs at Morgan State University with funding through the Kellogg Foundation, 1996-2004 financed accreditation consultation through planning grant with the program getting full accreditation in 2004. To this date (Oct. 2004) ten DrPH graduates have emerged.
Lead planning consultant for Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi and Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (Los Angeles) to establish their Doctor of Public Health programs.
Grand Rounds conducted at UCLA Medical Center; Harlem Hospital Medical Center; Schools of Medicine & Allied Health School, Charles Drew University, Martin Luther King Hospital Center (Los Angeles); University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Chicago International Hispanic Physicians and Family Therapists.
Member, Expert Panel on HIV Substance Abuse, National Institute for Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Chairperson and Founder AIDS Prevention Sundays, October 2000, Baltimore, Maryland.
Principal Investigator HIV-AIDS, STDs Prevention Project Regional Program with ten (10) HBCUs (Funding-CDC-NAFEO).
Chairperson- National Health Behavioral Change Task Force (Funding-Kellogg Foundation).
Board of Directors Baltimore City Empowerment Zone Management Group.
Board of Directors Public Health Leadership Training Program of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Board of Directors The Mayors Baltimore Substance Abuse Prevention System
Public Health Consultant HIVSTD Prevention Programs.
Planned and served as host for the National Symposium on Health Behavioral Change: Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, October 3-5, 2004, Radisson Cross Keys Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by NCHBC.
Healthy People 2000 Coordinator for Morgan and the Baltimore area Hosted Down-Link Site and my voice was used for radio commercials produced in 120 cities promoting Healthy People 2000 (Surgeon Generals Project) objectives and video conference.
Planned and moderated HIV-AIDS Prevention National Conference on AIDS in Black Community, Spring 1999. A collaborative effort between Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University on AIDS Vaccine Information and Issues.
Doctoral Internship Director Public Health doctoral candidates, Morgan State University and Professor of Social Work and lecture nationally in Public Health disciplines.
Adjunct faculty member, University of Maryland, College Park, College of Education, Internship Director, and dissertation committee member, 1996-1999.
Adjunct faculty member, professor and doctoral dissertation committee member, Union Graduate School, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997-1999.
Adjunct professor, internship director, and doctoral dissertation committee member, George Washington University, Hospitality Management, 1995-1996 Academic year.
1991-1992
University Professor and MSW Planning Director, Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama.
1989-1991
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama.
1988-1989
Director of Research and Development and Professor, City University of New York Hunter College, School of Health Sciences, Brookdale Health Sciences Center, New York City.
1984-1987
President, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Brooklyn,
New York.
1974-1984
Dean and Professor, Howard University Graduate School of Social Work, Washington, DC.
1971-1973
President and National Child Development and Day Care Consultants, Inc., Washington, DC.
1970-1971
Associate Director and Director for Early Childhood Development for Day Care and Child Development Council of America, Washington, DC.
HONORS
Listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care, 2003.
Listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Volume XVII, 1989-91 Edition.
Referenced in Who's Who in America, 1985.
Listed in Who's Who Internationally, 1991-92.
Listed in Who's Who Among Black Americans, 1977-78,1981-85.
Listed in Who's Who in the East, 1980-85.
Received the 1985 Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Award from the Bessie Smith Democratic Club of New York for Outstanding Leadership in Higher Education.
Received the Dr. Martin Luther King Award from the Baptist Pastors and Churches Union of Brooklyn and Long Island for "Sacrificial and Exceptional Services" on June 19, 1987.
Selected to receive Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit for Outstanding Contributions in Human Development, 1980 - Highest Alumni Award given by Ohio University.
Selected to receive Graduate of Year Award in 1981 from Black Alumni Association of Ohio University, May 1981.
Mayor's Citation for Outstanding Leadership Award from the Mid-Brooklyn Political Association for "...devoted efforts in the field of education," 1984.
Received the Man of the Year Award from the Black Women's Political Leadership Caucus of New York State, 1984.
Selected as Outstanding Faculty Member by Howard University social work students (one of three selected by student ballot in January 1972). Write-up and picture appeared in 1972 Yearbook.
NEW PUBLICATION
Chunn, Jay; Editor and Co-Author. The Health Behavioral Change Imperative: Theoretical, Educational and Practice Dimensions, 2002, Kluwer Academic Press, NY, Boston, Dordrecht, London and Moscow.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Chunn, Jay; Dunston, P. and Ross-Sheriff F. (Eds.) Mental Health and People of Color: Curriculum Development and Change, Howard University Press,1983. Received Academic Book of the Year Award from the Professional Librarian Review Publication, Choice in 1983.
"The Black Aged and Social Policy" in Aging, HEW Journal, October - November, 1978, Washington, DC.
"Stress Management and the Black Female in the Corporate Environment," a Commentary in Proceedings of An Institute for the Advancement of the Black Female in Corporate Leadership Positions, Howard University, September 1983.
Editor, The Survival of Black Children and Youth, book published in August 1974- Anthology with special introduction by Dr. Andrew Billingsley and composed of presentations and speeches made at the National Council on Black Child Development Conference, February 1973.
PUBLICATION IN PREPARATION
Chunn, Jay. Culture and Personality: Theory Development and Mental Health Practice. Book to be published to serve as a textbook and practice guide to mental health practitioners in Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Nursing. (In Process)
ORGANIZATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
National Medical Association Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Section
American Public Health Association
American Psychological Association
Morgan State University Public Health Program National Advisory Board
National Association of Black Social Worker (NABSW)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Updated October 7, 2004
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