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
Protease inhibitor combination therapy and decreased condom use among gay men
Failed retrieving data.Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of refusing unwanted sex among African-American adolescent females
Failed retrieving data.Psychosocial predictors of pregnancy among low-income African-American adolescent females : A prospective analysis
Failed retrieving data.Risk among men who have sex with men in the united states : A comparison of an Internet sample and a conventional outreach sample
Failed retrieving data.Selected risk and protective factors associated with two or more lifetime sexual intercourse partners and non-condom use during last coitus among U.S rural high school students
Failed retrieving data.Sexual risk behaviors associated with having older sex partners : A study of black adolescent females
Failed retrieving data.A prospective study of psychological distress and sexual risk behavior among black adolescent females.
Failed retrieving data.Condom carrying is not associated with condom use and lower prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among minority adolescent females
Failed retrieving data.Correct condom application among African-American adolescent females : The relationship to perceived self-efficacy and the association to confirmed STDs
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of Adolescent Females' Worry About Undesired Pregnancy : The Importance of Partner Desire for Pregnancy
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of casual sex among African-American female teens
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of hepatitis B vaccination in a high-risk population : An internet sample
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of using dual methods for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy prevention among high-risk african-american female teens
Failed retrieving data.Dating violence and the sexual health of black adolescent females.
Failed retrieving data.Development of programmes for enhancing sexual health : Commentary
Failed retrieving data.Exposure to X-rated movies and adolescents' sexual and contraceptive-related attitudes and behaviors
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with testing for hepatitis C in an internet-recruited sample of men who have sex with men
Failed retrieving data.HIV/STD-protective benefits of living with mothers in perceived supportive families : A study of high-risk African American female teens
Failed retrieving data.Measurement of the role of families in prevention and adaptation to HIV/AIDS
Failed retrieving data.Parent-adolescent communication and sexual risk behaviors among African American adolescent females
Failed retrieving data.Parental monitoring : Association with adolescents' risk behaviors
Failed retrieving data.Psychosocial correlates of adolescents' worry about STD versus HIV infection : Similarities and differences
Failed retrieving data.Self-obtained vaginal swabs for diagnosis of treatable sexually transmitted diseases in adolescent girls
Failed retrieving data.Socioeconomic status and self-reported gonorrhea among African American female adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Validity of self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among african american female adolescents participating in an HIV/STD prevention intervention trial
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