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

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

Secondary HIV prevention: Novel intervention approaches to impact populations most at risk

Self-regulatory problems mediate the association of contextual stressors and unprotected intercourse among rural, African american, young adult men

The assessment of complementary and alternative medicine use among individuals with HIV: A systematic review and recommendations for future research

The impact of depressive symptomatology on risky sexual behavior and sexual communication among African American female adolescents

Translating an effective group- based hiv prevention program to a program delivered primarily by a computer: Methods and outcomes

Using culturally sensitive media messages to reduce HIV-associated sexual behavior in high-risk African American adolescents: Results from a randomized trial

A network-individual-resource model for HIV prevention

A qualitative case study examining intervention tailoring for minorities

A randomized controlled trial of an HIV prevention intervention for street-based female sex workers in Yerevan, Armenia: Preliminary evidence of efficacy

Adolescents' attitudes toward vaccinations: A systematic review

Application of ADAPT-ITT: Adapting an Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Intervention for Incarcerated African American Adolescent Females

Applying ecological perspectives to adolescent sexual health in the United States: Rhetoric or reality?

Balancing rigor against the inherent limitations of investigating hard-to-reach populations

Barriers to adolescents' participation in HIV biomedical prevention research

Concordant and discordant reports on shared sexual behaviors and condom use among african american serodiscordant couples in four cities

Development and evaluation of a complementary and alternative medicine use survey in African-Americans with acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Development of the sexual sensation-seeking scale for African American adolescent women

Development, Theoretical Framework, and Lessons Learned From Implementation of a School-Based Influenza Vaccination Intervention

Differences between dual-method and non-dual-method protection use in a sample of young African American women residing in the Southeastern United States