RONALD L. BRAITHWAITE is professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and is the former chair and an adjunct professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventative Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. He is the co-editor of Prisons and Aids (Jossey-Bass Publishers)

SANDRA E. TAYLOR is professor and former chair in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Sociology at Clark Atlanta University, and a visiting professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.
Braithwaite and Taylor are the coeditors of Health Issues in the Black Community, First Edition (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992).