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
Family connectedness and sexual minority Asian Americans' eating behavior regulation
Failed retrieving data.Internet-Delivered Sexually Transmitted Infection and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program : A Randomized Trial
Failed retrieving data.Patient–Provider Health Communication Strategies : Enhancing HPV Vaccine Uptake among Adolescents of Color
Failed retrieving data.Pivoting from in-person to phone 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.Social Media Utilization Within Asian American Families and Its Role in Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Influence : Results From a Nationwide Survey
Failed retrieving data.Teen pregnancy in the US : Overview and opportunities for prevention
Failed retrieving data.Causally Interpretable Meta-analysis : Application in Adolescent HIV Prevention
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of depression among Black girls exposed to violence
Failed retrieving data.Development of an Integrated Approach to Virtual Mind-Mapping : Methodology and Applied Experiences to Enhance Qualitative Health Research
Failed retrieving data.Dyadic Intervention for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention in Urban Adolescents and Young Adults (The SEXPERIENCE Study) : Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Failed retrieving data.Editorial : The outbreak and sequelae of the increase in opioid use in the United States, Canada, and beyond
Failed retrieving data.Feasibility, acceptability, and short-term impact of a brief sexually transmitted infection intervention targeting U.S. Military personnel and family members
Failed retrieving data.Looking forward : Future directions for prevention of HIV among adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Mapping drivers of second-generation South Asian American eating behaviors using a novel integration of qualitative and social network analysis methods
Failed retrieving data.Situational and motivational factors associated with unhealthy alcohol use among Russian women with HIV and hepatitis C Virus co-infection
Failed retrieving data.Socioeconomic predictors of COVID-19- related health disparities among United States workers : A structural equation modeling study
Failed retrieving data.What predicts people’s belief in COVID-19 misinformation? A retrospective study using a nationwide online survey among adults residing in the United States
Failed retrieving data.A Pilot Study to Adapt a Trauma-Informed, Mindfulness-Based Yoga Intervention for Justice-Involved Youth
Failed retrieving data.An Examination of Gender Differences in Bullying among Justice-involved Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Behavioral counseling associated with STI prevention
Failed retrieving data.Changing the landscape of South Asian migrant health research by advancing second-generation immigrant health needs
Failed retrieving data.Consumer Informatics and COVID-19 Pandemics : Challenges and Opportunities for Research Findings from the Yearbook 2020 Section on Education and Consumer Health Informatics
Failed retrieving data.Development and Cultural Adaptation of a Computer-Delivered and Multi-Component Alcohol Reduction Intervention for Russian Women Living with HIV and HCV
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with phosphatidylethanol (PEth) sensitivity for detecting unhealthy alcohol use : An individual patient data meta-analysis
Failed retrieving data.Food insecurity among households with children during the COVID-19 pandemic : results from a study among social media users across the United States
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