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

Monitoring knowledge among family, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual partnership characteristics of African American adolescent females

Overcoming the triad of rural health disparities: How local culture, lack of economic opportunity, and geographic location instigate health disparities

Project STYLE: A multisite RCT for HIV prevention among youths in mental health treatment

Safety and acceptability of couples HIV testing and counseling for us men who have sex with men: A randomized prevention study

Social discrimination and resiliency are not associated with differences in prevalent HIV infection in black and white men who have sex with men

Socioeconomic-related risk and sexually transmitted infection among African-American adolescent females

Telling truth from Ys: An evaluation of whether the accuracy of self-reported semen exposure assessed by a semen Y-chromosome biomarker predicts pregnancy in a longitudinal cohort study of pregnancy

The impact of alcohol use on HIV/STI intervention efficacy in predicting sexually transmitted infections among young African-American women

The prevalence of undiagnosed HIV serodiscordance among male couples presenting for HIV testing

Time-varying risk behaviors among adolescents: Implications for enhancing the effectiveness of sexual risk reduction interventions

Towards an integrated framework for accelerating the end of the global HIV epidemic among young people

Understanding racial HIV/STI disparities in black and white men who have sex with men: A multilevel approach

Will HIV vaccination reshape HIV risk behavior networks? A social network analysis of drug users' anticipated risk compensation

'But I'm not like that': Young men's navigation of normative masculinities in a marginalised urban community in Paraguay

A longitudinal examination of risk and protective factors associated with drug use and unsafe sex among young African American females

A longitudinal examination of sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevention knowledge and sexually transmitted infections among African-American adolescent females

A longitudinal examination of the relationship between sexual sensation seeking and STI-related risk factors among African American females

A new paradigm for optimizing HIV intervention synergy: The role of interdependence in integrating HIV prevention interventions

Adoption and implementation of a computer-delivered HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for African American adolescent females seeking services at county health departments: Implementation optimization is urgently needed