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Overview

Seth C. Kalichman is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within medicine and health professions, with a considerable emphasis on infectious diseases, general health professions, epidemiology, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple topics related to public health and behavioral medicine, including:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Medication Adherence and Compliance
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Recent scholarly contributions include a number of papers published in 2020, demonstrating engagement with contemporary issues in public health and behavioral sciences. Notable publications are:

  • "COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, health behaviors, and policy support," 2020, published in Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • "Social and behavioral health responses to COVID-19: lessons learned from four decades of an HIV pandemic," 2020, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • "Anticipated stigma, stereotypes, and COVID-19 testing," 2020, Stigma and Health
  • "Intersecting Pandemics: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Protective Behaviors on People Living With HIV, Atlanta, Georgia," 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • "Falling Short of the First 90: HIV Stigma and HIV Testing Research in the 90-90-90 Era," 2020, AIDS and Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Seth C. Kalichman include:

  • Moira O. Kalichman
  • Lisa A. Eaton
  • Ellen Banas
  • Renee El-Krab
  • Bruno Shkembi

The scientist often publishes in several academic venues that align with their research interests. These publication venues include:

  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Best Publications

  • Sexual sensation seeking and Sexual Compulsivity Scales: reliability, validity, and predicting HIV risk behavior.

    Seth C. Kalichman;David Rompa

  • HIV testing attitudes AIDS stigma and voluntary HIV counselling and testing in a black township in Cape Town South Africa.

    S C Kalichman;L C Simbayi

  • HIV risk behavior reduction following intervention with key opinion leaders of population: an experimental analysis.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;Y E Diaz;L Y Stevenson

  • Internalized stigma, discrimination, and depression among men and women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa.

    Leickness C. Simbayi;Seth C. Kalichman;Anna Strebel;Allanise Cloete

  • Adherence to Combination Antiretroviral Therapies in HIV Patients of Low Health Literacy

    Seth C. Kalichman;Bineetha Ramachandran;Sheryl L Catz

  • Sexual sensation seeking: scale development and predicting AIDS-risk behavior among homosexually active men

    Seth C. Kalichman;Jennifer R. Johnson;Veral Adair;David Rompa

  • Alcohol Use and Sexual Risks for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review of Empirical Findings

    Seth C. Kalichman;Leickness C. Simbayi;Michelle Kaufman;Demetria Cain

  • Measuring AIDS stigmas in people living with HIV/AIDS: the Internalized AIDS-Related Stigma Scale

    Seth C Kalichman;Leickness C Simbayi;Allanise Cloete;Phumelele P Mthembu

  • Community AIDS/HIV risk reduction: the effects of endorsements by popular people in three cities.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;L Y Stevenson;A C Hauth

  • Stress, social support, and HIV-status disclosure to family and friends among HIV-positive men and women.

    Seth C Kalichman;Michael DiMarco;James Austin;Webster Luke

  • Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities

    Jeffrey A Kelly;Debra A Murphy;Kathleen J Sikkema;Timothy L McAuliffe

  • A pandemic of the poor: social disadvantage and the U.S. HIV epidemic.

    Jennifer A. Pellowski;Seth C. Kalichman;Karen A. Matthews;Nancy Adler

  • Men who have met sex partners via the Internet: prevalence, predictors, and implications for HIV prevention.

    Eric G. Benotsch;Seth Kalichman;Maggi Cage

  • Development of a brief scale to measure AIDS-related stigma in South Africa.

    Seth C. Kalichman;Leickness C. Simbayi;Sean Jooste;Yoesrie Toefy

  • Functional Health literacy is associated with Health status and health-related knowledge in people living with HIV-AIDS

    Seth C. Kalichman;David Rompa

  • Health literacy and health-related knowledge among persons living with HIV/AIDS

    Seth C. Kalichman;Eric Benotsch;Troy Suarez;Sheryl L Catz

  • Prevalence of sexually transmitted co-infections in people living with HIV/AIDS: systematic review with implications for using HIV treatments for prevention.

    Seth C Kalichman;Jennifer Pellowski;Christina Turner

  • Psychological interventions to prevent HIV infection are urgently needed. New priorities for behavioral research in the second decade of AIDS.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Debra A. Murphy;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Seth C. Kalichman

  • Sexual Coercion, Domestic Violence, and Negotiating Condom Use Among Low-Income African American Women

    Seth C. Kalichman;Ernestine A. Williams;Charsey Cherry;Lisa Belcher

  • Effectiveness of an intervention to reduce HIV transmission risks in HIV-positive people

    Seth C Kalichman;David Rompa;Marjorie Cage;Kari DiFonzo

  • Factors associated with severity of depression and high-risk sexual behavior among persons diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

    J A Kelly;D A Murphy;G R Bahr;J J Koob

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa A. Eaton
Lisa A. Eaton University of Connecticut
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Kathleen J. Sikkema Columbia University
Demetria Cain
Demetria Cain City University of New York
Jeffrey A. Kelly
Jeffrey A. Kelly Medical College of Wisconsin
Leickness C. Simbayi
Leickness C. Simbayi Human Sciences Research Council
Michael P. Carey
Michael P. Carey Brown University
Catherine Mathews
Catherine Mathews South African Medical Research Council
Lance S. Weinhardt
Lance S. Weinhardt University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Valerie A. Earnshaw
Valerie A. Earnshaw University of Delaware
Timothy G. Heckman
Timothy G. Heckman University of Georgia

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