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Torrance Torran Stephens is an American author, writer, scholar, behavioral epidemiologist, and infectious disease scientist. Formerly a member of the faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University (1993-2005), and Associate Professor and Director of The Health Education Track of the Masters of Public Health Program in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine, (2005-2008) and currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University (2008 – present).
He received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in 1985, A master's in Educational Psychology and Measurement (Statistics) from Atlanta University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Clark Atlanta University in 1992.
In 1992, he received a Postdoctoral, from the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) to serve as a Research Scientist with Africare International, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, with an emphasis on infectious disease.
While on faculty at Emory University in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health, he was awarded another Postdoctoral fellowship funded by the United States Department of Education, West African Research Association (WARA), in 1996 with Tostan International in Thies, Senegal, with an emphasis in Behavioral Epidemiology.
According to Researchgate, he has over 100 scientific articles on substance abuse and infectious disease. He has received research funding in the past from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ( NIAAA ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute (MRMC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
In addition to publishing scholarly articles on epidemiology, substance abuse, and infectious diseases, Stephens has published over twenty books including novels, short stories, and essays. He also has written several books on history and U.S. foreign policy.
Early life Stephens was born in Memphis, Tennessee on December 22, 1962. An only child, he was a voracious reader and always displayed a strong interest in science.
His mother encouraged him and regularly bought comic books she would bring to him, and surplus laboratory equipment from the hospital where she worked, allowing him to construct his laboratory. Originally his lab was in his bedroom but after a few explosions, he was forced to move it to a storage room in the back of the garage. In 1973, his family bought him a set of World Book Encyclopedias which it is said he read from A to Z that summer.
Stephens was strongly influenced by his instructors at Morehouse College and the friends he met there. Although many options for graduate study were available, he selected Atlanta University because two men he admired attended school there: James Weldon Johnson, author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America. He was particularly enamored with the latter. While at Atlanta University, he founded the first University Newspaper since the late 1960s, The Atlanta University Forum and Served as Editor-in-Chief.
His self-admitted literary influnces include E. Franklin Frazier, Thomas Sowell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Voltaire, Zora Neale Hurston, Mark Twain, Cheikh Anta Diop, Anton Chekhov, Malcolm X, James Madison, Amos Tutuola, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maya Angelou, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Hayek, and Anthony Burgess among others.