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
Juvenile justice staff endorsement of HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment linkage
Failed retrieving data.Location of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Services Across New York City Neighborhoods : Do Neighborhood Socio-demographic Characteristics and HIV Incidence Matter?
Failed retrieving data.Mental representation of self in relationships indirectly affects young Black women’s engagement in risky sexual behaviors through psychosocial HIV/STI risk factors
Failed retrieving data.Need for innovation in public health research
Failed retrieving data.Operationalizing a Behavioral Health Services Cascade of Care Model : Lessons Learned from a 33-Site Implementation in Juvenile Justice Community Supervision1
Failed retrieving data.Parent-adolescent communication scale
Failed retrieving data.Partner communication scale
Failed retrieving data.Pregnancy Coercion as a Risk Factor for HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Young African American Women
Failed retrieving data.Problem Solving Reduces Sexual Risk Associated with Sensation Seeking, Substance Use, and Depressive Symptoms Among African-American Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Sexual communication self-efficacy scale
Failed retrieving data.The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network : Shaping a Contemporary Agenda for Research in HIV
Failed retrieving data.Worry about sexual outcomes scale
Failed retrieving data.КЛИНИЧЕСКИЕ И ЛИЧНОСТНЫЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ЖЕНЩИН С КОИНФЕКЦИЕЙ ВИЧ/ВГС, УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕМ АЛКОГОЛЯ И НАРКОТИКОВ НА ЭТАПАХ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЯ
Failed retrieving data.ЭПИДЕМИОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ, КЛИНИЧЕСКАЯ И ФИНАНСОВАЯ СОСТАВЛЯЮЩИЕ РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ МНОГОЛЕТНЕЙ АНТИРЕТРОВИРУСНОЙ ТЕРАПИИ ПАЦИЕНТОВ С ВИЧИНФЕКЦИЕЙ
Failed retrieving data.A model for rigorously applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework in the design and measurement of a large scale collaborative multi-site study
Failed retrieving data.African American Women’s Language Use in Response to Male Partners’ Condom Negotiation Tactics
Failed retrieving data.Ecologies of risk among African American girls in juvenile detention
Failed retrieving data.HIV and symptoms of depression are independently associated with impaired glucocorticoid signaling
Failed retrieving data.Psychometric Evaluation of a Brief Depression Measure for Justice-Involved Youths : A Multigroup Comparison
Failed retrieving data.The Longitudinal Impact of a Family-Based Communication Intervention on Observational and Self-Reports of Sexual Communication
Failed retrieving data.The MEDIA model : An innovative method for digitizing and training community members to facilitate an HIV prevention intervention
Failed retrieving data.Theory-Based Analysis of Interest in an HIV Vaccine for Reasons Indicative of Risk Compensation Among African American Women
Failed retrieving data.Willingness to pay for an Ebola vaccine during the 2014–2016 ebola outbreak in West Africa : Results from a U.S. National sample
Failed retrieving data.A Multigroup, Longitudinal Study of Truant Youths, Marijuana Use, Depression, and STD-Associated Sexual Risk Behavior
Failed retrieving data.Changing risk trajectories and health outcomes for vulnerable adolescents : Reclaiming the future
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