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

Validation of the Sexual Communication Self-Efficacy Scale

Acceptability of condoms, circumcision and PrEP among young black men who have sex with men: A descriptive study based on effectiveness and cost

Adaptation of the African couples HIV testing and counseling model for men who have sex with men in the United States: An application of the ADAPT-ITT framework

Added benefits: reduced depressive symptom levels among African-American female adolescents participating in an HIV prevention intervention

Associations Between Psychiatric Impairment and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Teens in Mental Health Treatment

Combination HIV Prevention Interventions: The Potential of Integrated Behavioral and Biomedical Approaches

Correlates of gang involvement and health-related factors among African American females with a detention history

Correlates of incident trichomonas vaginalis infections among African American female adolescents

Correlates of inconsistent refusal of unprotected sex among Armenian female sex workers

Development and preliminary evaluation of a behavioural HIV-prevention programme for teenage girls of Latino descent in the USA

Development, Theoretical Framework, and Evaluation of a Parent and Teacher–Delivered Intervention on Adolescent Vaccination

Differences in Sexual Risk Behaviors Between Lower and Higher Frequency Alcohol-Using African-American Adolescent Females

Differential sensitivity to prevention programming: A dopaminergic polymorphism-enhanced prevention effect on protective parenting and adolescent substance use

Do Jobs Work? Risk and Protective Behaviors Associated with Employment among Disadvantaged Female Teens in Urban Atlanta

Drug users' willingness to encourage social, sexual, and drug network members to receive an HIV vaccine: A social network analysis

Efficacy of a telephone-delivered sexually transmitted infection/human immunodeficiency virus prevention maintenance intervention for adolescents: A randomized clinical trial

Efficacy of an HIV/STI Sexual Risk-Reduction Intervention for African American Adolescent Girls in Juvenile Detention Centers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

HIV vaccine acceptability among high-risk drug users in Appalachia: A cross-sectional study

HIV-related sexual risk behavior among African American adolescent girls

HIV-related stigma among african-american youth in the northeast and southeast US

Impact of abuse history on adolescent African American women's current HIV/STD-associated behaviors and psychosocial mediators of HIV/STD risk

Influence of sexual sensation-seeking on factors associated with risky sexual behaviour among African-American female adolescents

Interaction Between 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism and Abuse History on Adolescent African-American Females' Condom Use Behavior Following Participation in an HIV Prevention Intervention