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Linda G. Marc, M.P.H. ’92 Chosen for U.S. Census Bureau African-American Advisory Committee

Linda G. Marc, M.P.H. ’92, Sc.D., lecturer in Public Health Practice at Yale School of Public Health, has been chosen to serve on the United States Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the African-American population.  The nine-person committee was selected by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guiterrez. .

The committee will advise  the Census Bureau on the new American Community Survey and ways to achieve a more accurate count of the African-American population in the 2010 Census.  Marc has conducted extensive research within the Haitian community and will impart her knowledge, enhancing the Census committee’s understanding of diverse ethnic populations within the African-American community. 

Marc, a fellow of epidemiology in psychiatry and co-investigator in the HIV Clinical Trials Unit at Cornell University, is the principal investigator on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty project funded by the Connecticut Health Foundation.  Her specialty areas of research are  HIV/AIDS and minority health issues.