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
African-American men's exposure to music videos and their sexual attitudes and risk behaviour
Failed retrieving data.An opportunity for cancer prevention during preadolescence and adolescence : Stopping human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancer through HPV vaccination
Failed retrieving data.Application of audio computer-assisted self-interviews to collect self-reported health data : An overview
Failed retrieving data.Applying the Dynamic Social Systems Model to HIV Prevention in a Rural African Context : The Maasai and the Esoto Dance
Failed retrieving data.Applying the Dynamic Social Systems Model to HIV Prevention in a Rural African Context : The Maasai and the Esoto Dance
Failed retrieving data.Arousability as a predictor of sexual risk behaviours in African-American adolescent women
Failed retrieving data.Comparative effectiveness of a faith-based HIV intervention for African American women : Importance of enhancing religious social capital
Failed retrieving data.Correctional facilities as partners in reducing HIV disparities
Failed retrieving data.Effects of Promoting Health Among Teens on Dietary, Physical Activity, and Substance Use Knowledge and Behaviors for African American Adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of an HIV intervention in reducing high-risk human papillomavirus, nonviral sexually transmitted infections, and concurrency among African American women : A randomized-controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of SISTA South Africa on sexual behavior and relationship control among isiXhosa women in South Africa : Results of a randomized-controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with sexual arousal, sexual sensation seeking and sexual satisfaction among female African American adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Gang Norms and Risky Sex Among Adolescents With a History of Detention
Failed retrieving data.Gender based violence as a risk factor for HIV-associated risk behaviors among female sex workers in Armenia
Failed retrieving data.Impact of a physician recommendation and parental immunization attitudes on receipt or intention to receive adolescent vaccines
Failed retrieving data.Improving health outcomes for IPV-exposed women living with HIV
Failed retrieving data.Improving the validity of self-reported sexual behavior : No easy answers
Failed retrieving data.In their own words : Romantic relationships and the sexual health of young African American women
Failed retrieving data.Interpersonal- and community-level predictors of intimate partner violence perpetration among African American men
Failed retrieving data.Interventions to reduce alcohol use among HIV-Infected individuals : A review and critique of the literature
Failed retrieving data.It takes 2 : Partner attributes associated with sexually transmitted infections among adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Masculinity, condom use self-efficacy and abusive responses to condom negotiation : The case for HIV prevention for heterosexual African-American men
Failed retrieving data.Motivations for Secondary Abstinence Among African American Females at Risk for HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infections
Failed retrieving data.Multi-level factors associated with pregnancy among urban adolescent women seeking psychological services
Failed retrieving data.Parental human papillomavirus vaccine survey (PHPVS) : Nurse-led instrument development and psychometric testing for use in research and primary care screening
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