Health Behavior Theory for Public Health: Principles, Foundations, and Applications

About Laura F. SalazarRalph J. DiClementeRichard A. Crosby

Dr. 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 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 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. Laura F. Salazar PhD is a Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Georgia State University''s School of Public Health. Dr. Salazar''s research has been devoted to helping prevent and ameliorate violence against women and HIV/AIDS. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and focuses on u understanding the etiologic mechanisms underlying HIV/AIDS and violence and developing public health interventions that target those mechanisms. Her intervention approaches include the use of educational entertainment in the form of serial drama episodes social media marketing and web-based approaches to expand the reach of public health efforts. Most recently Dr. Salazar''s research has expanded to focus on understanding the determinants of mental and physical health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities with an emphasis on contextual and structural-level factors. Dr. Salazar has published over one 150 journal articles in medical public health and social science journals and is the author of over thirty book chapters and coauthor of four other public health textbooks. Dr. Salazar teaches advanced research methods and intervention development and evaluation for public health.