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Social Sciences and Humanities

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91
Citations
31439
World Ranking
180
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88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society

Overview

Ron Stall is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, psychology, and health professions. Their work prominently addresses infectious diseases, social psychology, general health professions, epidemiology, and sociology and political science.

Their research mainly focuses on HIV/AIDS research and interventions, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, sex work and related issues, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexuality, behavior, and technology, as well as hermeneutics and narrative identity.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ron Stall are:

  • Trends in State Policy Support for Sexual Minorities and HIV-Related Outcomes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States, 2008-2014, 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Understanding Patterns of Healthy Aging Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study, 2021, JMIR Research Protocols
  • Latent Profile Analysis of a Syndemic of Vulnerability Factors on Incident Sexually Transmitted Infection in a Cohort of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men Only and Black Men Who Have Sex With Men and Women in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 061 Study, 2020, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Feasibility of Short-Term PrEP Uptake for Men Who Have Sex With Men With Episodic Periods of Increased HIV Risk, 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Mental Health, Drug, and Violence Interventions for Sexual/Gender Minorities: A Systematic Review, 2021, American Academy of Pediatrics eBooks

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ron Stall include:

  • M. Reuel Friedman
  • Hannah L. F. Cooper
  • Stephanie Beane
  • Barbara Tempalski
  • Umedjon Ibragimov

The primary publication venues for their body of work encompass:

  • UNC Libraries
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • American Academy of Pediatrics eBooks
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Ron Stall has also contributed to book publications, including the title LGBTQ Health Research published in 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

They have received recognition in the form of awards such as the Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Suicidality and depression disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth: a meta-analytic review.

    Michael P. Marshal;Laura J. Dietz;Mark S. Friedman;Ron Stall

  • Sexual orientation and adolescent substance use: a meta-analysis and methodological review.

    Michael P. Marshal;Mark S. Friedman;Ron Stall;Kevin M. King

  • Association of co-occurring psychosocial health problems and increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among urban men who have sex with men.

    Ron Stall;Thomas C. Mills;John Williamson;Trevor Hart

  • Sexual and gender minority health: what we know and what needs to be done.

    Kenneth H. Mayer;Judith B. Bradford;Harvey J. Makadon;Ron Stall

  • Substance use and risky sexual behavior for exposure to HIV: Issues in methodology, interpretation, and prevention.

    Barbara C. Leigh;Ron Stall

  • A Meta-Analysis of Disparities in Childhood Sexual Abuse, Parental Physical Abuse, and Peer Victimization Among Sexual Minority and Sexual Nonminority Individuals

    Mark S. Friedman;Michael P. Marshal;Thomas E. Guadamuz;Chongyi Wei

  • Implementing evidence-based interventions in health care: application of the replicating effective programs framework

    Amy M Kilbourne;Mary S Neumann;Harold A Pincus;Mark S Bauer

  • Alcohol and Drug Use During Sexual Activity and Compliance with Safe Sex Guidelines for AIDS: The AIDS Behavioral Research Project

    Ron Stall;Leon McKusick;James Wiley;Thomas J. Coates

  • Greater risk for HIV infection of black men who have sex with men: a critical literature review.

    Gregorio A. Millett;John L. Peterson;Richard J. Wolitski;Ron Stall

  • Do prevention interventions reduce HIV risk behaviours among people living with HIV? A meta-analytic review of controlled trials.

    Nicole Crepaz;Cynthia M. Lyles;Richard J. Wolitski;Warren F. Passin

  • Depressive Symptoms and CD4 Lymphocyte Decline Among HIV-Infected Men

    Jeffrey H. Burack;Donald C. Barrett;Ron D. Stall;Margaret A. Chesney

  • Prevalence of AIDS-related risk factors and condom use in the United States.

    Catania Ja;Coates Tj;Stall R;Turner H

  • Suicide Attempts Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Lifetime Prevalence and Antecedents

    Jay P. Paul;Joseph Catania;Lance M. Pollack;Judith Moskowitz

  • Distress and depression in men who have sex with men: the Urban Men's Health Study.

    Thomas C. Mills;Jay Paul;Ron Stall;Lance M. Pollack

  • The continuing HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men

    Joseph A. Catania;Dennis Osmond;Ronald D. Stall;Lance Pollack

  • The relationship between methamphetamine and popper use and risk of HIV seroconversion in the multicenter AIDS cohort study

    Michael W Plankey;David G Ostrow;Ron Stall;Christopher Cox

  • Individual trajectories of substance use in lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and heterosexual youth.

    Michael P. Marshal;Mark S. Friedman;Ron Stall;Amanda L. Thompson

  • Intertwining Epidemics: A Review of Research on Substance Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Its Connection to the AIDS Epidemic

    Ron Stall;David W. Purcell

  • Interacting Epidemics and Gay Men's Health: A Theory of Syndemic Production among Urban Gay Men

    Ron Stall;Mark Friedman;Joseph A. Catania

  • Housing Status and HIV Risk Behaviors: Implications for Prevention and Policy

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  • Gay men report high rates of unprotected anal sex with partners of unknown or discordant HIV status.

    Maria L. Ekstrand;Ron D. Stall;Jay P. Paul;Dennis H. Osmond

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay P. Paul
Jay P. Paul University of California, San Francisco
Joseph A. Catania
Joseph A. Catania Oregon State University
Lance M. Pollack
Lance M. Pollack University of California, San Francisco
Michael P. Marshal
Michael P. Marshal University of Pittsburgh
Diane Binson
Diane Binson University of California, San Francisco
Maria L. Ekstrand
Maria L. Ekstrand University of California, San Francisco
Susan M. Kegeles
Susan M. Kegeles University of California, San Francisco
Pamela J. Surkan
Pamela J. Surkan Johns Hopkins University
Hannah L.F. Cooper
Hannah L.F. Cooper Emory University
Lisa A. Eaton
Lisa A. Eaton University of Connecticut

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