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
Development of the sexual sensation-seeking scale for African American adolescent women
Failed retrieving data.Development, Theoretical Framework, and Lessons Learned From Implementation of a School-Based Influenza Vaccination Intervention
Failed retrieving data.Differences between dual-method and non-dual-method protection use in a sample of young African American women residing in the Southeastern United States
Failed retrieving data.Differentiating between precursor and control variables when analyzing reasoned action theories
Failed retrieving data.Economically motivated relationships and transactional sex among unmarried African American and white women : Results from a U.S. national telephone survey
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of a Motivational Behavioral Intervention to Promote Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in Young Women : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of an HIV prevention program among African American female adolescents reporting high depressive symptomatology.
Failed retrieving data.Emotional victimization and sexual risk-taking behaviors among adolescent African American women
Failed retrieving data.Evaluation of an HIV/STD Sexual Risk-Reduction Intervention for Pregnant African American Adolescents Attending a Prenatal Clinic in an Urban Public Hospital : Preliminary Evidence of Efficacy
Failed retrieving data.HIV knowledge and its contribution to sexual health behaviors of low-income African American adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Intimate partner violence and other partner-related factors : Correlates of sexually transmissible infections and risky sexual behaviours among young adult African American women
Failed retrieving data.Neighborhood Environment, Sexual Risk Behaviors and Acquisition of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents Diagnosed with Psychological Disorders
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence of child and adult sexual abuse and risk taking practices among HIV serodiscordant african-american couples
Failed retrieving data.Psychiatric disorders and sexual risk among adolescents in mental health treatment
Failed retrieving data.Psychosocial correlates of intention to receive an influenza vaccination among rural adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Risk and protective factors for unprotected intercourse among rural African American young adults
Failed retrieving data.Risky sexual behavior and correlates of std prevalence among african american hiv serodiscordant couples
Failed retrieving data.The contribution of male and female partners' substance use to sexual risks and stds among african american hiv serodiscordant couples
Failed retrieving data.The Health and Recovery Peer (HARP) Program : A peer-led intervention to improve medical self-management for persons with serious mental illness
Failed retrieving data.The Impact of Community-Based Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening Results on Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Wanted : A theoretical roadmap to research and practice across individual, interpersonal, and structural levels of analysis
Failed retrieving data.A brief, clinic-based, safer sex intervention for heterosexual African American men newly diagnosed with an STD : a randomized controlled trial.
Failed retrieving data.African-American female adolescents who engage in oral, vaginal and anal sex : "Doing it all" as a significant marker for risk of sexually transmitted infection
Failed retrieving data.Anal sex is a behavioural marker for laboratory-confirmed vaginal sexually transmissible infections and HIV-associated risk among African-American female adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Association of sexual abuse with incident high-risk human papillomavirus infection among young African-American women
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