Ralph J. DiClementeDr. Ralph DiClemente is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Dean of Public Health Innovation at the School of Global Public Health at New York University.Dr. DiClemente was trained as a Health Psycholgist 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 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. Read More Read Less