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Research Overview
Dr. Jeffrey Fisher is a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and the founding director of its Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention. He has published extensively on factors associated with HIV risk behavior and has done conceptual and empirical work in the area of increasing HIV preventive behavior. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated effective HIV risk behavior change interventions in multiple populations. His work also focuses on increasing adherence to ART and on health behavior change in general. Dr. Fisher's research to date has involved MSM, injection drug users, heterosexual adolescents, and individuals who are HIV infected. He has been awarded six major NIMH HIV risk reduction grants since 1989, totaling over $28 million, has lectured and consulted internationally in the area of HIV preventive behavior, and was named to the Centers for Disease Control’s AIDS education programs evaluation committee. In addition, Dr. Fisher has served on the National Institute of Mental Health Psychobiological, Biological, and Neuroscience subcommittee, the Mental Health Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Review committee, and the editorial board of several journals. Dr. Fisher is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and Divisions 8, 9, and 34 of the American Psychological Association.
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1975 (social psychology)
M.S., Purdue University, 1973
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971
Featured Publications
ARTICLES
Fisher, W. A., Kohut, T. & Fisher, J. D. (in press). AIDS Exceptionalism? On the Social Psychology of HIV Prevention Research. Social Issues and Policy Review.
Fisher, J. D., Smith, L. R. (2009). Secondary prevention of HIV infection: the current state of prevention for positives. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 4(4), 279-287.
Fisher, J. D., Amico, K. R., Fisher, W. A., & Harman, J. J. (2008). The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of Antiretroviral Adherence and its Applications. Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 5(4), 193-203.
Kiene, S. M., Christie, S., Cornman, D. H., Fisher, W. A., Shuper, P. A., Pillay, S., Friendland, G. H., & Fisher, J. D. (2006). Sexual Risk Behaviour among HIV-Positive Individuals in Clinical Care in Urban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. AIDS, 20, 1781-1784.
Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Amico, R., & Harman, J. J. (2006). An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Health Psychology, 25(4), 462-473.
Fisher, J. D., Cornman, D. H., Norton, W. E., & Fisher, W. A. (2006). Involving Behavioral Scientists, Health Care Providers, and HIV-Infected Patients as Collaborators in Theory-Based HIV Prevention and Antiretroviral Adherence Interventions. JAIDS, 43, S10-S17.
Starace, F., Massa, A., Amico, K. R., & Fisher, J. D. (2006). Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy: An Empirical Test of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model. Health Psychology, 25(2), 153-162.
Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Cornman, D. H., Amico, R. K., Bryan, A., & Friedland, G. H. (2006). Clinician-Delivered Intervention During Routine Clinical Care Reduces Unprotected Sexual Behavior Among HIV-Infected Patients. JAIDS, 41(1), 44-52.
Fisher, J. D., Cornman, D. H., Osborn, C. Y., Amico, K. R., Fisher, W. A., & Friedland, G. H. (2004). Clinician-initiated HIV risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive persons: formative research, acceptability, and fidelity of the Options project. JAIDS, 37(2), S78-S87.
Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Bryan, A. D., & Misovich, S. J. (2002). Information-motivation-behavioral skills model-based HIV risk behavior change intervention for inner-city high school youth. Health Psychology, 21(2), 177-186.
Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Bryan, A. D., & Misovich, S. J. (2002). Information-motivation-behavioral skills model-based HIV risk behavior change intervention for inner-city high school youth. Health Psychology, 21(2), 177-186.
Fisher, J. D., DelGado, B. P., Melchreit, R., & Spurlock-McLendon, J. (2002). The Dynamics of Repeat HIV Testing, and Interventions for Repeat HIV Testers. AIDS and Behavior, 6(2), 183-191.
Fisher, J. D., Misovich, S. J., Kimble, D. L., & Weinstein, B. (1999). Dynamics of HIV Risk Behavior in HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users. AIDS and Behavior, 3(1), 41-57.
Fisher, J. D., Kimble, D. L., Misovich, S. J., Weinstein, B. (1998). Dynamics of Sexual Risk Behavior in HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex With Men. AIDS and Behavior 2(2), 101-113.
Fisher, J. D. & Fisher, W. A. (1992). Changing AIDS-Risk Behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 455-474.
Fisher, J. D. & Misovich, S. (1990). Evolution of College Students’ AIDS-Related Behavioral Responses, Attitudes, Knowledge, and Fear. AIDS Education and Prevention, 2, 322-337.
CHAPTERS
Fisher, J. D. (2009). Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention. In C. Stout, (Ed.), The New Humanitarians: Inspirations, Innovations, and Blueprints for Visionaries (pp. 231-247). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., & Shuper, P. A. (2009). The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of HIV Preventive Behavior. In R. DiClemente, R. Crosby, & M. Kegler (Eds.), Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research, 2nd Edition (pp. 22-63). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass Publishers.
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