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
Rethinking funding priorities in mental health research
Failed retrieving data.Sexual Risk Among African American Women : Psychological Factors and the Mediating Role of Social Skills
Failed retrieving data.Substance Use Patterns of HIV-Infected Russian Women with and Without Hepatitis C Virus Co-infection
Failed retrieving data.Taking mhealth forward : Examining the core characteristics
Failed retrieving data.Validity of Self-reported Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents : Where Do We Go from Here?
Failed retrieving data.Abuse Impedes Prevention : The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV/STI Risk Among Young African American Women
Failed retrieving data.Acceptance of and experiences utilising expedited partner therapy among African-American juvenile girls
Failed retrieving data.Association of depressive symptoms and substance use with risky sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections among African American female adolescents seeking sexual health care
Failed retrieving data.Associations Between a Dopamine D4 Receptor Gene, Alcohol Use, and Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescent African Americans
Failed retrieving data.Erratum to : Neighborhood Condition and Geographic Locale in Assessing HIV/STI Risk Among African American Adolescents [AIDS and Behavior, DOI:10.1007/s10461-014-0868-y]
Failed retrieving data.Explaining racial disparities in HIV incidence in black and white men who have sex with men in Atlanta, GA : A prospective observational cohort study
Failed retrieving data.Focusing national institutes of health HIV/AIDS research for maximum population impact
Failed retrieving data.Genetic sensitivity to emotional cues, racial discrimination and depressive symptoms among African–American adolescent females
Failed retrieving data.Human papillomavirus vaccination among adolescents in Georgia
Failed retrieving data.Identifying psychosocial and social correlates of sexually transmitted diseases among black female teenagers
Failed retrieving data.Influence of sexual arousability on partner communication mediators of condom use among African American female adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Influence of sources of information about influenza vaccine on parental attitudes and adolescent vaccine receipt
Failed retrieving data.Overcoming barriers to HPV vaccination : A randomized clinical trial of a culturally-tailored, media intervention among African American girls
Failed retrieving data.Perceived Difficulty of Performing Selected HIV/AIDS Preventive Behaviors and Life Satisfaction : Is there a Relationship for African American Adolescents?
Failed retrieving data.School-located vaccination clinics for adolescents : Correlates of acceptance among parents
Failed retrieving data.The association between stress, coping, and sexual risk behaviors over 24 months among African-American female adolescents
Failed retrieving data.The effect of high rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections on hiv incidence in a cohort of black and white men who have sex with men in Atlanta, Georgia
Failed retrieving data.The effects of a mass media HIV-risk reduction strategy on HIV-related stigma and knowledge among African American adolescents
Failed retrieving data.The moderating role of parental psychopathology on response to a family-based HIV prevention intervention among youth in psychiatric treatment
Failed retrieving data.The need for biological outcomes to complement self-report in adolescent research
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