Ralph DiClemente
Ralph DiClemente
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Dr. Ralph DiClemente was trained as a Health Psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco where he received his PhD in 1984 after completing a ScM at the Harvard School of Public Health. He earned his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York.
Dr. DiClemente’s research has four key foci:
- Developing interventions to reduce the risk of HIV/STD among vulnerable populations
- Developing interventions to enhance vaccine uptake among high-risk adolescents and women, such as HPV and influenza vaccine
- Developing implementation science interventions to enhance the uptake, adoption and sustainability of HIV/STD prevention programs in the community
- Developing diabetes screening and behavior change interventions to identify people with diabetes who are unaware of their disease status as well as reduce the risk of diabetes among vulnerable populations.
He has focused on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches that are designed to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability.
Dr. DiClemente is the author of ten CDC-defined, evidence-based interventions for adolescents and young African-American women and men. He is the author of more than 540 peer-review publications, 150 book chapters, and 21 books. He serves as a member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
Previously, Dr. DiClemente served as the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He was also Associate Director of the Center for AIDS Research, and was previously Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health.
Dr. DiClemente is Past President of the Georgia chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine. He previously served as a member of the CDC Board of Scientific Counselors, and the NIMH Advisory Council.
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Education
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BA, The City College of the City University of New York (CCNY), New York, NYScM, Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAPhD, Health Psychology, University of California San Francisco Center for Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco, CAPostdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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Areas of research and study
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Community InterventionsDiabetesHIV/AIDSImplementation scienceInfluenzaPsychology
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Publications
Publications
The hidden burden of extragenital chlamydial and gonorrheal infections in a population of U.S. Army service members and their medical beneficiaries
Failed retrieving data.Trajectories of physical violence against Latinas and Black women: The protective role of parents, neighborhoods, and schools
Failed retrieving data.Understanding sleep behaviors and barriers to OSA evaluation and treatment among highway
maintenance vehicle operators.Failed retrieving data.A multi-stage dyadic qualitative analysis to disentangle how family members influence the dietary behaviors of Asian American young adults
Failed retrieving data.Assessing the importance of theory-based correlates of future HIV vaccine intentions among Black men who have sex with men
Failed retrieving data.ASSESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY-BASED CORRELATES OF FUTURE HIV VACCINE INTENTIONS AMONG BLACK MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN
Failed retrieving data.Determinants of an HIV Preventive Vaccine among a Highly Vulnerable Population : African American Men Who Have Sex with Men
Failed retrieving data.Determinants of an HIV preventive vaccine among a highly vulnerable population: African American men who have sex with men
Failed retrieving data.Ensuring fidelity : key elements to consider in disseminating a diabetes telemanagement program for underserved Hispanic/Latinos living with type 2 diabetes
Failed retrieving data.Exploring sleep difficulties, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal ideation among adolescents with a history of depression
Failed retrieving data.Exploring sleep difficulties, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal ideation among adolescents with a history of depression
Failed retrieving data.How do Asian American young adults influence the health of family members? Structural equation modeling of age, acculturation, interactivity, and closeness
Failed retrieving data.Improving HPV vaccination uptake among adolescents in low resource settings: Sociocultural and socioeconomic barriers and facilitators
Failed retrieving data.Mutual capacity building model for adaptation (MCB-MA) : a seven-step procedure bidirectional learning and support during intervention adaptation
Failed retrieving data.Pivoting from in-person to telephone survey assessment of alcohol and substance use: effects on representativeness in a United States prospective cohort of women living with and without HIV
Failed retrieving data.Using the Knocking Out Infections through Safer Sex and Screening (KISS) adapted behavioral intervention to reduce sexually transmitted infections in U.S. Army medical beneficiaries: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Childhood violence, high school academic environment, and adult alcohol use among Latinas and Black women: A structural equation modeling
Failed retrieving data.‘We know what he likes, even if he doesn’t know’ : how the children of South Asian immigrants characterize and influence the diets of their parents
Failed retrieving data.‘We know what he likes, even if he doesn’t know’: how the children of South Asian immigrants characterize and influence the diets of their parents
Failed retrieving data.A Multi-Stage Dyadic Qualitative Analysis to Disentangle How Dietary Behaviors of Asian American Young Adults are Influenced by Family
Failed retrieving data.Concordance of Ethyl Glucuronide, Blood Alcohol Content, and Self-Reported Alcohol Use in Russian Women with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infection
Failed retrieving data.COVID-19 stressors for Hispanic/Latino patients living with type 2 diabetes : a qualitative study
Failed retrieving data.Digital Communications Technology Use and Feelings of Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Failed retrieving data.Do parental protective factors matter? Predicting HIV/STI risk among a sample of justice-involved African-American girls
Failed retrieving data.Exploring substance misuse behaviors among black girls in detention : Intersections of trauma, sex, and age
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