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 role of gender relations in HIV prevention research for women.
Failed retrieving data.Expanding the Pediatrician's Role in HIV Prevention for Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Sexual communication is associated with condom use by sexually active incarcerated adolescents
Failed retrieving data.The Association Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Prevalence of HIV-Related Risk Behaviors
Failed retrieving data.A Pilot Study of Sexual Communication and Negotiation Among Young African American Women : Implications for HIV Prevention
Failed retrieving data.Changes in adolescents' knowledge and attitudes about AIDS over the course of the AIDS epidemic
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of AIDS knowledge and HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among adolescents in low and high AIDS prevalence communities
Failed retrieving data.Confronting the Challenge of AIDS among Adolescents : Directions for Future Research
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with multiple sex partners among junior high school students
Failed retrieving data.HIV knowledge, communication, and risk behaviors among white, Chinese-, and Filipino-American adolescents in a high-prevalence AIDS epicenter : a comparative analysis.
Failed retrieving data.HIV-related risk behaviors among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and school-based adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Adolescents : Schools as Agents of Behavior Change
Failed retrieving data.The effects of child abuse and race on risk-taking in male adolescents.
Failed retrieving data.The Relationship of Magic Johnson's Announcement of HIV Infection to the AIDS Attitudes of Junior High School Students
Failed retrieving data.Child Sexual Abuse of Asians Compared with Other Populations
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of human immunodeficiency virus related knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors among sexually active and abstinent young adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Confronting the challenge of AIDS in the African-American community.
Failed retrieving data.Cultural, gender, and psychosocial influences on HIV-related behavior of African-American female adolescents : implications for the development of tailored prevention programs.
Failed retrieving data.Determinants of condom use among junior high school students in a minority, inner-city school district
Failed retrieving data.Epidemiology of AIDS, HIV Prevalence, and HIV Incidence Among Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.HIV/AIDS education and prevention among African-Americans : A focus on culture
Failed retrieving data.Moral reasoning and unprotected sex among young men
Failed retrieving data.Predictors of condom use in sexually active adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Self-control and ego identity development as predictors of unprotected sex in late adolescent males
Failed retrieving data.An AIDS education and Prevention Program for hospitalized adolescents
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