Jeffrey Fisher, Ph.D. Director, CHIP Professor, Department of Psychology 2006 Hillside Road Unit 1248 Storrs, CT 06269-1248 Phone: (860) 486-4940 Email: jeffrey.fisher@uconn.edu

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 $22 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 the journal, AIDS and Behavior, as well as other journals. Dr. Fisher is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and Divisions 8, 9, and 34 of the American Psychological Association.

CHIP AFFILIATED PROJECTS

ACTIVE PROJECTS

Changing ART Adherence Behavior
(funded by NIMH)

Development of Training & Implementation Materials for Options Intervention
(funded by NIMH)

Increasing ARV Adherence in a Military Setting in Uganda
(funded by DOD/DPHAPP)

Integrating HIV Prevention into Clinical Care for PLWHA in South Africa
(funded by NIH)

Prevention for Positives in a Military Setting in Mozambique
(funded by DOD/DPHAPP)


COMPLETED PROJECTS

A Pilot Study to Assess the Feasibility of a Physician-Delivered Prevention Intervention for HIV+ Individuals in Urban South Africa
(funded by CHIP)

Changing AIDS Risk Behavior in College Students
(funded by NIMH)

Changing AIDS Risk Behavior in High School Students
(funded by NIMH)

HIV Prevention Intervention with Indian Truck Drivers
(funded by NIMH)

Physician-Delivered Intervention for HIV+ Individuals
(funded by NIMH)

Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1975 (social psychology)
M.S., Purdue University, 1973
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971

Featured Publications

Fisher, J. D., & Misovich, S. (1990). Social Influence and AIDS-Preventive Behavior. In J. Edwards et al. (Eds.), Social Influence Processes and Prevention (pp. 39-70). NY: Plenum.

Fisher, J.D., & Fisher, W.A. (2000). Theoretical approaches to individual-level change. In Peterson, J. and DiClemente, R. (Eds.), HIV Prevention Handbook. (pp. 3-55). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

Fisher, J.D., & Fisher, W.A. (2002). The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model. In DiClemente, R., Crosby, R. & Kegler, M. (Eds.), Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research. (pp. 40-70). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass Publishers.

Fisher, W.A, Fisher, J.D. & Harman, J.J. (2003). The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model as a general model of health behavior change: Theoretical approaches to individual-level of change. In Suls, J. and Wallston, K. (Eds.), Social Psychological Foundations of Health. (pp. 127-153). United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishers.

Kiene, S.M, Fisher, J.D. & Fisher, W.A. (2005). Linking prevention with care: HIV risk reduction interventions in clinical settings for persons living with HIV. In Kalichman, S. (Ed.), Positive Prevention: Reducing HIV Transmission among People Living with HIV-AIDS. (pp.219-244). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Fisher, J. D. & Fisher, W. A. (1992). Changing AIDS Risk Behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 455-474.

Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Williams, S. S. & Malloy, T. E. (1994). Empirical tests of an information--motivation--behavioral skills model of AIDS preventive behavior with gay men and heterosexual university students. Health Psychology, 13 (3), 238-250.

Fisher, J. D., Fisher, W. A., Misovich, S. J., Kimble, D. L., & Malloy, T. E. (1996). Changing AIDS risk behavior: Effects of an intervention emphasizing AIDS risk reduction information, motivation, and behavioral skills in a college student population. Health Psychology, 15, 114-123.

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., Cornman, D.H., Osborn, C.Y., Amico, K.R., Fisher, W.A., & Friedland, G.H. (2004). Clinician-initiated HIV-risk reduction intervention for HIV+ persons: Formative research, acceptability, and fidelity of the options project. JAIDS, 37(2), S78-S87.

Fisher, J.D., Fisher, W.A., Cornman, D.H., Amico, R.K., Bryan, A., and Friedland, G.H. (2006). Clinician-Delivered Intervention During Routine Clinical Care Reduces Unprotected Sexual Behavior Among HIV-Infected Patients. JAIDS, 41(1):44-52.

Starace, F., Massa, A., Amico, K.R., and 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., 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.

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.

Kiene, S., Christie, S., Cornman, D.H., Fisher, W.A., Shuper, P.A., Pillay, S., Friedland, 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.