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January 1, 2002
LOU PALMER
Building a Behavioral Program in a Medical Setting

March 14, 2002
ALBERT TULDRA
Adherence to Antiretrovirals: Assessment and Intervention

March 28, 2002
KEVIN O’REILLY
Synthesizing and Modeling Effectiveness of Interventions for HIV Prevention and Care

April 11, 2002
FABRIZIO STARACE
Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications: Mission Impossible?

April 19, 2002
BELLA MODY
Macro-level and Organizational Influences on HIV-AIDS Policies in Developing Countries: Examples from India

October 24, 2002
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD
Psychological Factors Associated with Partner-Specific Sexual Decision-Making among Adolescents
 

October 24, 2002
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD
Adolescent Partner Type Experience: Psychosocial and Behavioral Differences
 

December 5, 2002
V. BEDE AGOCHA
Safer-Sex Decision Making: A Motivated Cognition Explanation

January 30, 2003
FREDERICK ALTICE
Provision of Directly Observed Therapy for HIV Infected Drug Users: Clinical and Research Considerations

February 20, 2003
SUNITI SOLOMON
YRGCare: Shaping the Response to HIV/AIDS in India

April 25, 2003
GODFREY WOELK
Sex and Alcohol in Harare: HIV Prevention in Zimbabwean Beerhalls

May 15, 2003
M. LYNNE COOPER
Motivation Perspectives on Sexual Risk-Taking

May 19, 2003
JEFFREY PARSONS
How Much is Too Much? Sexual Compulsivity among Gay/Bisexual Men
  

June 5, 2003
CAROL LAMMI-KEEFE
Fish in the Diet of the Pregnant Woman: Evidence for Better Organized and Consolidated Sleep and a More Mature Central Nervous System in the Infant

June 12, 2003
SUSAN KIENE
Cultural Beliefs as Barriers to HIV Risk Reduction Behaviors: Predicting Changes in Beliefs

June 18, 2003
SETH KALICHMAN
Social and Behavioral Barriers to AIDS Prevention in South African Townships

June 26, 2003
AARON SMITH-MCLALLEN
Implicit Attitudes and Risk in Sexual Decision-Making
   

September 11, 2003
LEICKNESS CHISAMU SIMBAYI
The Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS: South African National HIV Prevalence, Behavioral Risk, and Mass Media Household Survey

September 15, 2003
JULIA ARNSTEN
Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in HIV-Infected Drug Users
 

October 2, 2003
ZOE STRICKLER
Communication Design and Behavior Change
 

October 9, 2003
ANN O’LEARY
A Public Health Collaboration Between the CDC and the Bold and the Beautiful

October 10, 2003
NATALIE SMOAK
The Effects of Romantic Relationship Commitment on Perceptions of Harm
 

October 23, 2003
RICK ZIMMERMAN
A Program of HIV Prevention Research: Individual Differences, Models, and Interventions
 

October 30, 2003
VIRGINIA BERRIEN
The Effects of RN Home Visiting on Pediatric Antiretroviral Medication Adherence

December 4, 2003
ANN FERRIS
Chasing Anemia: The Complexity of Developing Intervention Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of the Iron-Deficiency Anemia of Urban Poverty in the U.S.

February 12, 2004
CRYSTAL PARK
Religion, Health, and Aging
 

February 19, 2004
ANN O’CONNELL
CBO Adoption and Adaptation Study: Agency Concerns Regarding Selection and Implementation of Effective Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention
 

March 4, 2004
DON DES JARLAIS
Turning Around the Aircraft Carrier: Reversing High Seroprevalence HIV Epidemics

March 13, 2004
TED HAMMETT
A Cross-Border HIV Prevention Project for Injection Drug Users in Northern Vietnam and Southern China
 

March 25, 2004
JANET ST. LAWRENCE
The Social Organization and Epidemiological Impact of Commercial Sex Work in Russia
 

April 8, 2004
WILLIAM DARROW
Old Public Health, New Public Health, and No Public Health: The Short History of HIV Prevention in the United States of America
 

April 15, 2004
DAVID BANGSBERG
Paradoxes of Adherence and Resistance to HIV Therapy
 

April 22, 2004
HOWARD TENNEN
Daily Processes in Health and Illness: Applications to Chronic Pain, Alcohol Use, Depression, Coping, and Clinical Trials

April 28, 2004
BRUCE LARSON
Family-Level Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Zambia

April 29, 2004
ZHIXIONG HE
The Sex Industry in China: Past of the Present

May 4, 2004
ANGELA BRYAN
Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk: Developing an HIV/STD Intervention for Adolescents in Detention
 

May 6, 2004
DARRELL DECKER
CCfH: The Power to Visualize Change – Thirteen Years of Producing Grass Root Inspired Community Level Intervention Materials

September 9, 2004
MERRILL SINGER
Intimate Partner Violence: Drug Use and HIV Risk among Women in Hartford
 

September 23, 2004
WENDEE WECHSBERG
Translating U.S. Research to South Africa with Cultural and Ethical Considerations: Learning Lessons from the Women-Focused HIV Prevention Project

September 30, 2004
KATHLEEN SIKKEMA
Group Intervention for Coping with Loss and Trauma among HIV-Positive Men and Women
 

October 14, 2004
RAFAEL PÉREZ-ESCAMILLA
The Vertical Transmission of HIV through Breast Milk in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Public Health Quagmire
   

October 18, 2004
KHAMIS ABU-HASABALLAH
Medical Informatics: Promises and Pitfalls of New Technologies for Behavioral Research
   

October 21, 2004
JEAN RHODES
Older and Wiser: Mentoring Relationships and Adolescent Health
   

October 28, 2004
RICHARD WOLITSKI
Does Sexual Explicitness Influence the Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Messages for Adult Gay and Bisexual Men?
 

November 4, 2004
JANE SIMONI
Assessing and Enhancing Antiretroviral Adherence: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
   

December 9, 2004
DOLORES ALBARRACIN
A Test of Major Assumptions about Behavior Change: A Comprehensive Look at HIV Prevention since the Beginning of the Epidemic

January 27, 2005
ROBERT BROADHEAD
Improving the Peer-Driven Intervention Model to Prevent HIV among Injection Drug Users in Russia
   

February 3, 2005
JEAN SCHENSUL
Ecstasy and Social Risk among Urban Youth
   

February 17, 2005
ROBERT FULILOVE
Health Disparities and the HIV Pandemic
  

March 17, 2005
JILL LEWIS
Challenging Gender Issues: Centering the Gender Factor in HIV/AIDS Prevention
  

March 24, 2005
SUSAN PICK
Education in Mexico: Strategies for Advocacy
   

March 31, 2005
KAVEH KHOSHNOOD
Ethical Issues in Research Studies with Illicit Drug Users
   

April 14, 2005
XIUSHI YANG
Migration, Gender, and HIV/STD Risk in Contemporary China
   

April 21, 2005
JULIE WAGNER
Behavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes
 

April 28, 2005
MARGARET CHESNEY
Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Positive Lessons and New Directions
   

May 12, 2005
FREDERICK ALTICE
Rethinking Directly Administered Antiretroviral Therapy: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

September 8, 2005
JON SIMON
Economic Impacts and Social Responses: HIV/AIDS Effects on Rural Households in Kenya and Zimbabwe
  

September 15, 2005
DOUGLAS STOREY
Pathways to Health Competence: Designing and Evaluating a National Reproductive Health Communication Program in Egypt
   

September 29, 2005
PAMELA ERICKSON
The Social Context of Sexual Relationships among Inner City Youth in Hartford
   

October 6, 2005
ROBERT REMIEN
HIV Medication Adherence: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial and the Challenges of Achieving Optimal Adherence
   

October 20, 2005
STEVEN SAFREN
HIV Medication Adherence Interventions at Massachusetts General Hospital and Fenway Community Health
   

November 3, 2005
STEPHANIE MILAN
Interpersonal Predictors of Depression Trajectories in Women with HIV
   

November 10, 2005
BARBARA MARIN
Cultural Issues in Behavior Change for Latinos: Smoking and HIV Prevention as Examples
   

November 17, 2005
CHARLES ABRAHAM
Developing and Testing Condom-Promoting Texts
   

December 1, 2005
PERRY HALKITIS
Gay Culture and Behavior in the Third Decade of AIDS: The Emergence of Barebacking
   

December 8, 2005
RONALD STALL
Health Disparities and Gay Men's Health: Evidence from the Urban Men's Health Study
   

January 26, 2006
DAVID GREGORIO
Places Matter: Evaluating Geographic Distribution of Disease around Connecticut
   

February 9, 2006
KENDALL BRYANT
An Integrated Perspective on Alcohol and Adherence for People Living with HIV

February 23, 2006
ROBERT S. ASTUR
Using Virtual Reality to Provide Insights into Psychiatric Illness
   

March 2, 2006
GLORIAN SORENSON
Addressing Disparities in Cancer Prevention
   

March 30, 2006
DOUGLAS HARTMAN
The Health Literacy Practices of Two African American Male Adolescents: Patterns and Implications
   

April 13, 2006
SALLY VERNON
Evidence-Based Interventions to Promote Cancer Screening
   

April 20, 2006
DAVID CELENTANO
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial in India

April 27, 2006
KASISOMAYAJULA VISWANATH
Beyond Access: Communication Inequality and its Implications for Health Disparities
   

May 11, 2006
DIANA JEFFREY
Health Disparity and Cancer Survivorship: Exploration of Uncharted Research
   

May 18, 2006
ANTRONETTE YANCEY
Engaging Underserved Communities in Obesity Prevention and Control Interventions
   

June 1, 2006
RICHARD STEVENS
Light at Night: The Impact of Circadian Rhythms on Breast Cancer Incidence

September 7, 2006
R. CRAIG LEFEBVRE
Social Media, Social Marketing, and Behavior Change
 

September 26, 2006
NANCY PETRY
Problem Gambling: A Rising Concern in College Students?

October 12, 2006
TERI ALBRECHT
From the Social Psychology Lab to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic: Parental Empathic Concern and Children’s Reactions to Painful Cancer Treatments
 

October 26, 2006
MICHAEL COPENHAVER
Moving Toward an Optimized Risk Reduction Intervention for Injection Drug Users
 

November 9, 2006
LORRAINE SHERR
HIV Testing: Issues, Challenges, and Consequences
 

November 16, 2006
DAVID HOLTGRAVE
What Works and What Remains to be Done in HIV Prevention in the US
 

November 30, 2006
SARAH DIAMOND
Use of Social Marketing, Branding, and Interactive Voice Response Technology in an Intervention with Urban Youth

December 5, 2006
DOUGLAS KIRBY
Sex and HIV Education Programs for Youth: The Impact and Characteristics of Effective Programs

January 25, 2007
THEODORE WALLS
Models of Change and Stability for Intensive Longitudinal Data
   

February 1, 2007
GREGORY ADAMS
Social Correlates of High Risk Behavior Among Registered Ukrainian Narcotic Addicts

February 8, 2007
MICHAEL CAREY
Sexual Risk Reduction for Patients at a Public STD Clinic
   

March 1, 2007
KIM BLANKENSHIP
Criminal Justice, Race, and HIV/AIDS
   

March 15, 2007
JULIE CWIKEL
Using Social Epidemiology to Look for Answers to the Global Epidemic in Trafficking of Women for Sex Work
   

March 22, 2007
CHANDRA OSBORN
Literacy Considerations in the Design of Health Behavior Change Interventions to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
   

March 29, 2007
CARYN LERMAN
Smoking Cessation Research: From the Laboratory to Health Communication
   

March 29, 2007
CARYN LERMAN
Pharmacogenetics and Nicotine Dependence Treatment
  

April 5, 2007
CHARLES ATKIN
Effective Media Campaign Strategies to Prevent Drinking Problems
   

April 12, 2007
FELIPE KORZENNY
The Multicultural Marketing Equation
   

September 6, 2007
BLAIR JOHNSON
SHARP Takes on HIV Prevention: Meta-Analytic Efficacy Evidence
   

September 20, 2007
JACI VANHEEST
Act NOW? School Based Interventions for Overweight Children
  

October 18, 2007
RALPH DICLEMENTE
Promoting the Health of African American Women: The Continuum of HIV Prevention Intervention
  

October 25, 2007
TIM M. EDGAR
Communication Skills Training in HIV Prevention Interventions: What Works?
  

November 15, 2007
ERIC BING
HIV Prevention in the Angolan Military
   

November 29, 2007
MARCI CAMPBELL
Tailoring Colorectal Cancer Prevention Interventions for African American Communities
  

December 6, 2007
AMY A. GORIN
The Role of the Home Environment in Weight Control: Opportunities for Intervention
  

December 13, 2007
NICOLE CREPAZ
Evidence-based Practice for HIV Prevention: Research Synthesis and Translation
  

January 24, 2008
RICHARD H. FORTINSKY
Preventing Falls in the Older Population: Recent Efforts to Apply Evidence-based Practices to Community Settings
   

February 28, 2008
WILLIAM KRAEMER
Physiology of Resistance Training: From Basic Science to Practical Applications
  

March 6, 2008
WILLIAM BARTA
Daily Diary Research Using Interactive Voice Response Technology

March 20, 2008
DEB TATE
One Size Does Not Fit All: Alternatives to Clinic Based Behavioral Interventions for Obesity

March 27, 2008
THOMAS FEELEY
Job Talk: Health Communication Interventions to Promote Organ and Tissue Donation

April 3, 2008
AARON SMITH-MCLALLEN
Measuring, Modeling, and Changing Social Normative Influences on Health Behaviors
   

April 10, 2008
KENNETH MAYER
Antiretrovirals for Prevention: Lessons Learned and Emerging Questions
  

April 24, 2008
MARGARET CHESNEY
Behavioral Medicine Meets Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine: Is There Common Ground?
   

May 1, 2008
BRIAN MITTMAN
Frameworks for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: A Systematic Approach to Study Planning, Design, Conduct and Reporting
   

May 8, 2008
MARK ABRAHAMSON AND LOIS TIMMS-FERRARA
Public Opinion Resources on Health Care Issues

May 29, 2008
MARCO YZER
Health Attitude Formation as a Function of One's Media Environment: A U.S.-Dutch Comparison

September 11, 2008
THERESA EXNER
The Female Condom Revisited

October 2, 2008
COLIN POITRAS & DAVID BAUMAN
Working with the Media: Publicizing Your Research Results and Expertise
  

October 16, 2008
SUSAN KEGELES
How Can our Research Make a Difference? Issues in Translating an Evidence-based HIV Prevention into Practice

October 23, 2008
ANN O'LEARY
What Made the Intervention Work? Mediation Analyses of Three Intervention Studies
  

November 13, 2008
RAJIV KUMAR & BRAD WEINBERG
Shape Up Rhode Island
  

November 20, 2008
THOMAS COATES
What Is Next in HIV Prevention?
  

December 11, 2008
TRACE KERSHAW
What's Love (and Men) Got to Do with It: Pregnancy and HIV Prevention
  

February 5, 2009
CHRISTINA A. ECONOMOS
Catalyzing Communities to Prevent Childhood Obesity

February 19, 2009
REBECCA PUHL
Weight Stigma in Health Care: Implications for Patients, Providers, and Public Health
  

March 19, 2009
PETER VANABLE
Promoting Sexual Health and Stress Management Among HIV+ Men Who Have Sex with Men
  

March 26, 2009
ALBERT "SKIP" RIZZO
Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future
 

April 16, 2009
JANE BROWN
Growing Up Sexually in a Mediated World
  

April 30, 2009
JEFF S. VOLEK
Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Uniquely Targets the Features of Metabolic Syndrome
  

May 7, 2009
GERALD FRIEDLAND AND SARAH FRIEDLAND
"Thingwithnoname" - HIV/AIDS Documentary Film

May 21, 2009
JEFF PARSONS
Motivational Interviewing Interventions for HIV and Drug/Alcohol Use: 10 Years of Lessons Learned
  

September 17, 2009
RICK ZIMMERMAN
Looking Back: Emerging Themes from HIV Prevention Work Thus Far
    

September 24, 2009
DON OPERARIO
AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa: Intergenerational Health Risks
    

October 1, 2009
MARIJN DE BRUIN
How Care Provided to Intervention and Control Groups Impacts Adherence Behavior and Clinical Outcomes in HIV: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

October 8, 2009
COLLEEN REDDING
Tailored Population-based Interventions to Improve Sexual Health
    

October 15, 2009
HART BLANTON
Early Applications of Deviance Regulation Theory to Norms-based Health Communications
    

November 12, 2009
CARL LATKIN
Social Network Approaches to HIV Prevention
    

November 19, 2009
JEREMY GRIMSHAW
Building the Science of Knowledge Translation
    

December 3, 2009
NABILLA EL-BASSEL
HIV Among Drug Users in Kazakhstan: Driving Forces and Implications for HIV Prevention and Treatment

December 10, 2009
KEITH BELLIZZI
The Cancer Survivorship and Aging Interface