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Overview

Valerie A. Earnshaw is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily focused on health, psychology, and medicine. Their work spans several interdisciplinary fields, emphasizing issues related to stigmatization, infectious diseases, and public health behavior.

Their recent publications include:

  • COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, health behaviors, and policy support, 2020, published in Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • Stigma and substance use disorders: A clinical, research, and advocacy agenda., 2020, published in American Psychologist
  • The intersection of gender and drug use-related stigma: A mixed methods systematic review and synthesis of the literature, 2021, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Integrating time into stigma and health research, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Anticipated stigma, stereotypes, and COVID-19 testing., 2020, published in Stigma and Health

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Earnshaw include:

  • Lisa A. Eaton
  • Natalie M. Brousseau
  • Ryan J. Watson
  • Frederick L. Altice
  • Elizabeth Hill

Earnshaw publishes regularly in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Stigma and Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • UNC Libraries
  • Translational Behavioral Medicine

Their research fields of study cover a variety of medical and psychological disciplines, including:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

In subfields, their work is particularly concentrated in:

  • General Health Professions
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Social Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Psychology

Main topics addressed throughout their research include:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Best Publications

  • The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas

    Anne L. Stangl;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Carmen H. Logie;Wim van Brakel

  • From Conceptualizing to Measuring HIV Stigma: A Review of HIV Stigma Mechanism Measures

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Stephenie R. Chaudoir

  • Stigma and racial/ethnic HIV disparities: Moving toward resilience.

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Laura M. Bogart;John F. Dovidio;David R. Williams

  • HIV Stigma Mechanisms and Well-Being Among PLWH: A Test of the HIV Stigma Framework

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Laramie R. Smith;Stephenie R. Chaudoir;Stephenie R. Chaudoir;K. Rivet Amico

  • The impact of stigma in healthcare on people living with chronic illnesses.

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Diane M. Quinn

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Mental Illness Stigma: The Mental Illness Stigma Framework and Critical Review of Measures.

    Annie B. Fox;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Emily C. Taverna;Dawne Vogt;Dawne Vogt

  • COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, health behaviors, and policy support.

    Valerie A Earnshaw;Lisa A Eaton;Seth C Kalichman;Natalie M Brousseau

  • Concealable Stigmatized Identities and Psychological Well-Being.

    Diane M. Quinn;Valerie A. Earnshaw

  • Drug Addiction Stigma in the Context of Methadone Maintenance Therapy: An Investigation into Understudied Sources of Stigma

    Valerie Earnshaw;Laramie Smith;Michael Copenhaver

  • The impact of patient race on clinical decisions related to prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): assumptions about sexual risk compensation and implications for access.

    Sarah K. Calabrese;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Kristen Underhill;Nathan B. Hansen;Nathan B. Hansen

  • Examining effects of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, internalization, and outness on psychological distress for people with concealable stigmatized identities.

    Diane M. Quinn;Michelle K. Williams;Francisco Quintana;Jennifer L. Gaskins

  • HIV Stigma and Physical Health Symptoms: Do Social Support, Adaptive Coping, and/or Identity Centrality Act as Resilience Resources?

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Shawn M. Lang;Margaret Lippitt;Harry Jin

  • "Discredited" Versus "Discreditable": Understanding How Shared and Unique Stigma Mechanisms Affect Psychological and Physical Health Disparities.

    Stephenie R. Chaudoir;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Stephanie Andel

  • Stigma-Based Bullying Interventions: A Systematic Review.

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Sari L. Reisner;David D. Menino;V. Paul Poteat

  • Understanding Concealable Stigmatized Identities: The Role of Identity in Psychological, Physical, and Behavioral Outcomes

    Diane M. Quinn;Valerie A. Earnshaw

  • Substance use stigma: Reliability and validity of a theory-based scale for substance-using populations.

    Laramie R. Smith;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Michael M. Copenhaver;Chinazo O. Cunningham

  • Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Prenatal Care: Perinatal Outcomes Among Adolescents in New York City Health Centers.

    Jeannette R Ickovics;Valerie Earnshaw;Jessica B. Lewis;Trace S. Kershaw

  • Stigma and substance use disorders: A clinical, research, and advocacy agenda.

    Valerie A Earnshaw

  • Anticipated stigma and quality of life among people living with chronic illnesses

    Valerie A Earnshaw;Diane M Quinn;Crystal L Park

  • Internalized stigma and HIV status disclosure among HIV-positive black men who have sex with men.

    Nicole M. Overstreet;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Seth C. Kalichman;Diane M. Quinn

  • Intersectionality of internalized HIV stigma and internalized substance use stigma: Implications for depressive symptoms:

    Valerie A Earnshaw;Laramie R Smith;Chinazo O Cunningham;Michael M Copenhaver

  • The importance of full-time work for urban adults’ mental and physical health

    Lisa Rosenthal;Amy Carroll-Scott;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Alycia Santilli

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura M. Bogart
Laura M. Bogart RAND Corporation
Diane M. Quinn
Diane M. Quinn University of Connecticut
Seth C. Kalichman
Seth C. Kalichman University of Connecticut
Lisa A. Eaton
Lisa A. Eaton University of Connecticut
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Nathan B. Hansen
Nathan B. Hansen University of Georgia
Ryan J. Watson
Ryan J. Watson University of Connecticut
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Crystal L. Park
Crystal L. Park University of Connecticut
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly Harvard University

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