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
Revisiting the intersection between domestic abuse and HIV risk [2] (multiple letters)
Failed retrieving data.The influence of psychosocial factors, alcohol, drug use on African- American women's high-risk sexual behavior
Failed retrieving data.Adolescents with psychiatric disorders and the risk of HIV
Failed retrieving data.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Partnerships with External Behavioral and Social Scientists. Roles, Extramural Funding, and Employment
Failed retrieving data.Child sexual abuse, HIV sexual risk, and gender relations of African- American women
Failed retrieving data.Condom use by black adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Depressive symptoms as correlates of polydrug use for blacks in a high- risk community
Failed retrieving data.Multiple drug use and depression : Gender differences among African-Americans in a high-risk community
Failed retrieving data.Reflections on the design and reporting of STD/HIV behavioral intervention research
Failed retrieving data.The effects of an abusive primary partner on the condom use and sexual negotiation practices of African-American women
Failed retrieving data.African-American adolescents residing in high-risk urban environments do use condoms : Correlates and predictors of condom use among adolescents in public housing developments
Failed retrieving data.Aids knowledge, teaching comfort, and support for aids education among school teachers : A statewide survey
Failed retrieving data.Childhood sexual abuse and coercive sex among school-based adolescents in a midwestern state
Failed retrieving data.Early drinking onset and its association with alcohol use and problem behavior in late adolescence
Failed retrieving data.HIV sexual risk reduction interventions for women : A review
Failed retrieving data.HIV sexual risk-reduction interventions for African-American women [1]
Failed retrieving data.HIV sexual risk-reduction interventions for African-American women [1]
Failed retrieving data.Predictors of sun exposure in adolescents in a southeastern U.S. population
Failed retrieving data.Risk-taking behavior among native American adolescents in Minnesota public schools : Comparisons with black and white adolescents
Failed retrieving data.A Randomized Controlled Trial of an HIV Sexual Risk—Reduction Intervention for Young African-American Women
Failed retrieving data.Adverse factors associated with forced sex among southern adolescent girls
Failed retrieving data.Change in junior high school students' AIDS-related knowledge, misconceptions, attitudes, and HIV-preventive behaviors : Effects of a school-based intervention
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of condom use among incarcerated adolescents in a rural state
Failed retrieving data.Overweight and obesity in Native-American adolescents : Comparing nonreservation youths with African-American and Caucasian peers
Failed retrieving data.The developmental implications of prenatal and/or postnatal crack cocaine exposure in preschool children : A preliminary report
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