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Ralph DiClemente
Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health - Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
NYU School of Global Public Health - Associate Dean of Public Health Innovation
Email: rjd438@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, Health Psychology, University of California, San Francisco
MS, Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, City College of the City University of New York
Research Interests
Behavioral interventions, Vulnerable and high-risk populations, Linkage to care, Prevention programs
BIO
Ralph DiClemente has focused on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches that are designed to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability. He is the author of ten CDC-defined, evidence-based interventions for adolescents and young African-American women and men, and has authored 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.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Collaboration to Examine the Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic and Needs of Those Affected. Completed
Principal Investigator, Computer-Based Alcohol Reduction Intervention for Alcohol-Using HIV/HCV+ Russian Women in Clinical Care. Completed
Principal Investigator, KiiDS: Knowing about Intervention Implementation in Detention Sites. Completed
Publications

Recent

Bryant BE, Tolou-Shams M, Ezimora I, Zapolski TC, DiClemente R, Jordan A, Becker SJ, Squeglia LM (2026).
Adapting substance use treatment for Black adolescents in the US legal system: Protocol for a mixed-method, exploratory, feasibility and acceptability study using the eight-step ADAPT-ITT framework
BMJ Open, 16 (3), e115193. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115193. PMCID: PMC12958882.

Capasso A, Tozan Y, DiClemente RJ, Pahl K (2026).
Trajectories of physical violence against Latinas and Black women: The protective role of parents, neighborhoods, and schools
Violence Against Women, 32 (2-4), 713-733. doi: 10.1177/10778012251319752.

Tierney HR, Ma Y, Xia F, Chandran A, Kempf MC, Collins LF, DeHovitz J, DiClemente RJ, Floris-Moore M, French AL, Jones DL, Sharma A, Spence AB, Hahn JA, Price JC, Tien PC (2026).
Trends in alcohol use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among women living with and without HIV in the United States (2017-2022)
AIDS and Behavior, 30 (2), 502-515. doi: 10.1007/s10461-025-04875-9. PMCID: PMC12795451.

Capasso A, Stotts AL, Xu MA, Manuel BD, Zelaya S, Casillas SJ, Villarreal YR, Dorow A, Brown JL, Xu S, Concheiro-Guisan M, Fonseca Pego AM, Wingood GM, Beegle SAP, DiClemente RJ, Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) (2026).
Safe Start, a hybrid intervention to reduce alcohol exposed pregnancies: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BMC Public Health, 25 (1), 506. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-26044-2. PMCID: PMC12882392.

Xu MA, Choi J, Rosenberger JG, Zimmerman RS, Turner MM, DiClemente RJ (2026).
Understanding the factors that may influence African American MSM’s acceptance of a theoretical HIV vaccine
Behavioral Medicine, 52 (1), 39-49. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2025.2523603.

Dr. DiClemente's List of Publications on PubMed