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
Heavy Alcohol Use is Associated with Lower CD4 Counts among Russian Women Living with HIV : A Multilevel Analysis
Failed retrieving data.Heterogeneity of Sexual Risk Profiles Among Juvenile Justice-Involved African American Girls
Failed retrieving data.Impact of COVID-19-related knowledge on protective behaviors : The moderating role of primary sources of information
Failed retrieving data.Increased alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic : The effect of mental health and age in a cross-sectional sample of social media users in the U.S.
Failed retrieving data.Sleep medication use and incident dementia in a nationally representative sample of older adults in the US
Failed retrieving data.The Influence of Familial and Peer Social Support on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Black Girls in Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Failed retrieving data.A system-level intervention to encourage collaboration between juvenile justice and public health agencies to promote hiv/sti testing
Failed retrieving data.Adapting a home telemonitoring intervention for underserved Hispanic/Latino patients with type 2 diabetes : an acceptability and feasibility study
Failed retrieving data.An Exploratory Structural Equation Model of Stress-Related Experiences Among Justice-Involved Youth : A Gender Comparison
Failed retrieving data.Can a Multilevel STI/HIV Prevention Strategy for High Risk African American Adolescents Improve Life Satisfaction?
Failed retrieving data.Developmental Changes in Sexual Risk and Substance Use Among African American Females : an Integrated Data Analysis Approach Using Time-varying Effect Models
Failed retrieving data.Does Initiating Vaginal Sexual Intercourse During a Safer Sex Media Campaign Influence Life Satisfaction Among African American Adolescents?
Failed retrieving data.Neighborhood Stress and Life Satisfaction : Is there a Relationship for African American Adolescents?
Failed retrieving data.Perceived neighborhood violence and crime, emotion regulation, and PTSD symptoms Among Justice-Involved, Urban African-American adolescent girls
Failed retrieving data.Preventing type 2 diabetes among South Asian Americans through community-based lifestyle interventions : A systematic review
Failed retrieving data.Social media as a recruitment platform for a nationwide online survey of COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the United States : Methodology and feasibility analysis
Failed retrieving data.Trends and predictors of COVID-19 information sources and their relationship with knowledge and beliefs related to the pandemic : Nationwide cross-sectional study
Failed retrieving data.Using ADAPT-ITT to modify a telephone-based HIV prevention intervention for SMS delivery : Formative study
Failed retrieving data.A multilevel intervention with African American churches to enhance adoption of point-of-care HIV and diabetes testing, 2014-2018
Failed retrieving data.Accelerating the Evolution of Health Promotion Research : Broadening Boundaries and Improving Impact
Failed retrieving data.African-American sexual minority adolescents and sexual health disparities : An exploratory cross-sectional study
Failed retrieving data.Behavioral Health and the Juvenile Justice System
Failed retrieving data.Evaluating the Role of Family Context Within a Randomized Adolescent HIV-Risk Prevention Trial
Failed retrieving data.Individual- and Community-Level Factors in the STD Status of Justice-Involved Youth : Multi-Group, Exploratory Two-Level Analysis
Failed retrieving data.Is the Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale Valid and Reliable for African American Adolescents?
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