Ralph DiClemente

Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Professional overview

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:

1. Developing interventions to reduce the risk of HIV/STD among vulnerable populations
2. Developing interventions to enhance vaccine uptake among high-risk adolescents and women, such as HPV and influenza vaccine
3. Developing implementation science interventions to enhance the uptake, adoption and sustainability of HIV/STD prevention programs in the community
4. 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

Publications

Social conditions and the AIDS pandemic

Structural interventions for HIV prevention: Optimizing strategies for reducing new infections and improving care

The Longitudinal Impact of a Family-Based Communication Intervention on Observational and Self-Reports of Sexual Communication

The MEDIA model: An innovative method for digitizing and training community members to facilitate an HIV prevention intervention

Theory-Based Analysis of Interest in an HIV Vaccine for Reasons Indicative of Risk Compensation Among African American Women

Willingness to pay for an Ebola vaccine during the 2014–2016 ebola outbreak in West Africa: Results from a U.S. National sample

A Multigroup, Longitudinal Study of Truant Youths, Marijuana Use, Depression, and STD-Associated Sexual Risk Behavior

Community trauma as a predictor of sexual risk, marijuana use, and psychosocial outcomes among detained African-American female adolescents

Dibattiti. Ripensare le priorità nei finanziamenti della ricerca sulla salute mentale

Exploring evidence for behavioral risk compensation among participants in an HIV vaccine clinical trial

Factors associated with school nurses’ HPV vaccine attitudes for school-aged youth

Health Risk Behavior Among Justice Involved Male and Female Youth: Exploratory, Multi-Group Latent Class Analysis

Interest in an Ebola vaccine among a U.S. national sample during the height of the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) as a Biomarker of Alcohol Consumption in HIV-Infected Young Russian Women: Comparison to Self-Report Assessments of Alcohol Use

Semen says: Assessing the accuracy of adolescents' self-reported sexual abstinence using a semen Y-chromosome biomarker

Social Context and Problem Factors among Youth with Juvenile Justice Involvement Histories

The association between cigarette smoking, virologic suppression, and CD4+ lymphocyte count in HIV-Infected Russian women

When a relationship is imperative, will young women knowingly place their sexual health at risk? A sample of African American adolescent girls in the juvenile justice system

Alcohol Use Problems and Sexual Risk Among Young Adult African American Mothers

Alcohol use, partner characteristics, and condom use among HIV-infected Russian women: An event-level study

Comparison of Substance Use Typologies as Predictors of Sexual Risk Outcomes in African American Adolescent Females

Do As I Say: Using Communication Role-Plays to Assess Sexual Assertiveness Following an Intervention

Factors Associated with HIV Testing among African American Female Adolescents in Juvenile Detention Centers

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention

Incorporating Communication into the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Condom Use Among African American Women