Ralph DiClemente

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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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.

Education

BA, The City College of the City University of New York (CCNY), New York, NY

ScM, Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PhD, Health Psychology, University of California San Francisco Center for Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Areas of research and study

Community Interventions

Diabetes

HIV/AIDS

Implementation science

Influenza

Psychology

Publications

Association between sexually transmitted diseases and young adults' self-reported abstinence

Bias in Online recruitment and retention of racial and ethnic minority men who have sex with men

Challenges in addressing depression in HIV research: Assessment, cultural context, and methods

Condom Use Among Young Women: Modeling the Theory of Gender and Power

Correlates of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine acceptability among parents and their adolescent children

Correlates of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine acceptance among middle and high school teachers in rural Georgia

Depression and sexual risk-taking in adolescents

Determinants of multimethod contraceptive use in a sample of adolescent women diagnosed with psychological disorders

Differences between African-American adolescent females with and without human papillomavirus infection

Efficacy of a health educator-delivered HIV prevention intervention for Latina women: A randomized controlled trial

Examining the relationship between psychotropic medication use and testing positive for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among detained adolescents

Gardasil for guys: Correlates of intent to be vaccinated

Is male intent to be vaccinated against HPV a function of the promotion message?

Long term effects of community-based STI screening and mass media HIV prevention messages on sexual risk behaviors of African American adolescents

Longitudinal examination of alcohol use: A predictor of risky sexual behavior and trichomonas vaginalis among African-American female adolescents

Monitoring Challenges: A Closer Look at Parental Monitoring, Maternal Psychopathology, and Adolescent Sexual Risk

Multicomponent interventions to enhance influenza vaccine delivery to adolescents

Multiple method contraception use among African American adolescents in four US cities

Personal and social influences regarding oral sex among African American female adolescents

Predictors of condom errors among sex workers in Armenia

Preliminary efficacy of a computer-based HIV intervention for African-American women

Prevalence and correlates of inconsistent condom use among female sex workers in Armenia

Rape victimization and high risk sexual behaviors: Longitudinal study of African-American adolescent females

Rural parents' vaccination-related attitudes and intention to vaccinate middle and high school children against influenza following educational influenza vaccination intervention

Seasonal and 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine uptake, predictors of vaccination and self-reported barriers to vaccination among secondary school teachers and staff