Ronald Stall Professor & Chair, Dept of Behavior & Community Health Sciences Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh 208 Parran Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Email: rstall@pitt.edu

• University of California, San Francisco, (PhD in Medical Anthropology, 1984)
• University of California, Berkeley (MPH in Epidemiology, 1984)
• University of Kentucky, Lexington (MA in Anthropology, 1979)
• University of Florida, Gainesville (BA in History/Latin American Studies, 1976)

• AIDS Behavioral Research
• HIV prevention
• Behavioral Epidemiology
• Substance Abuse Epidemiology
• Program Planning & Evaluation

Professional Biography

Dr. Stall is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. A pioneer in the field of identifying HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, Dr. Stall established several key areas for HIV prevention through his recognition of the issue of relapse in HIV risk behaviors, the influence of alcohol on sexual risk behavior and his newest area of inquiry, the relationship of drug use, depression and poverty. He published some of the first papers on critical topics such as non-intravenous drug use and HIV, the epidemiology of AIDS and HIV risk among older Americans, the first national probability sample of gay men, and the first study to use empirical data to demonstrate the importance of maintaining safe sex behaviors.

Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, he was a professor at the Department of General/Internal Medicine and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Early in his career, he was on the Task Force on AIDS and the Task Force on Drug Abuse, and a member of the American Anthropological Association (1988–1992). Dr. Stall is particularly proud of his record of collaborative research conducted with AIDS community-based organizations, which include a broad range of organizations within the United States and abroad. He is the 1999 recipient of the Chuck Frutchey Board of Directors Award from STOP AIDS/San Francisco, is listed as one of the most highly cited behavioral science researchers in the world in the ISI Most Highly Cited website, received the 2005 CDC/ATSDR Honor Award for Public Health Epidemiology and Laboratory Research and was inducted into Delta Omega (a public health honor society) in 2006.

Research Interests & Current Projects

Dr. Stall’s central research interest is the study of how social and cultural forces shape the behaviors that place individuals at higher risk for disease outcomes. He has served as the Chief of the Prevention Research Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Stall began work in 1984 on the AIDS Behavioral Research Project, one of the first longitudinal studies of AIDS risk-taking behaviors in the world. Since that time he has published over 120 peer reviewed scientific papers on many different aspects of the AIDS epidemic, including methodological research, research on determinants of risk-taking behaviors and HIV seroconversion, life course issues important to AIDS risk-taking behavior, behavioral intervention research, research on care-seeking behavior for HIV infection and a portfolio of international research on AIDS. He has been a principal investigator of numerous research projects on topics including care for intravenous drug users with AIDS, AIDS risk education in older Americans, AIDS risk reduction among young gay men, history of substance abuse and sexual risk taking and HIV treatment adherence among alcohol abusers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals: Social Aspects of AIDS, AIDS Education and Prevention, Journal of Sex Research and AIDS Care. He also has served on editorial boards of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1986-94) and Drug and Alcohol Dependence (1988-91).

Selected Publications

Thiede, Hanne; Jenkins, Richard A.; Carey, James W.; Hutcheson, Rebecca; Thomas, Katherine K.; Stall, Ronald D.; White, Edward; Allen, Iris; Mejia, Roberto; & Golden, Matthew R. (2008). Determinants of Recent HIV Infection Among Seattle-Area Men Who Have Sex with Men. American Journal of Public Health, 98(6): 1–8

Marshal, Michael P.; Friedman, Mark S.; Stall, Ronald D.; King, Kevin M.; Miles, Jonathan; Gold, Melanie A.; Bukstein, Oscar G.; & Morse, Jennifer Q. (2008). Sexual Orientation and Adolescent Substance Use: A Meta-Analysis and Methodological Review. Addiction, 103(4): 546–556.

Stall, Ronald D.; & Mills, Thomas. (2006). A Quarter-Century of AIDS. American Journal of Public Health, 96(6): 959–961.

Stall, Ronald D.; Mills, Thomas C.; Williamson, John; Hart, Trevor; Greenwood, Greg; Paul, Jay; Pollack, Lance; Binson, Diane; Osmond, Dennis; & Catania, Joseph A. (2003). Association of Co-Occurring Psychosocial Health Problems and Increased Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS Among Urban Men Who Have Sex With Men. American Journal of Public Health, 93(6): 939–942.

Waldo, Craig R.; Stall, Ronald D.; & Coates, Thomas J. (2000). Is Offering Post-Exposure Prevention for Sexual Exposures to HIV Related to Sexual Risk Behavior in Gay Men? AIDS, 14(8): 1035–1039.

Stall, Ronald D.; Greenwood, Greg; Acree, Michael; Paul, Jay P.; & Coates, Thomas J. (1999). Cigarette Smoking Among Gay and Bisexual Men. American Journal of Public Health, 89(12):1875–78.

Stall, Ronald D.; Paul, Jay P.; Barrett, Donald C.; Crosby, Michael; & Bein, Edward. (1999). An Outcome Evaluation to Measure Changes in Sexual Risk-Taking among Gay Men Undergoing Substance Abuse Treatment. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60(6): 837–845.

Hearst, Norman; Laderda, Regina; Gravato, Neide; Hudes, Esther Sid; & Stall, Ronald D. (1999). Reducing AIDS Risk Behavior Among Port Workers in Santos, Brazil. American Journal of Public Health, 89(1): 76–78.

Mills, Thomas C.; Stall, Ronald D.; Catania, Joseph A.; & Coates, Thomas J. (1997). Interpreting HIV Prevalence and Incidence Among Americans: Bridging Data and Public Policy. American Journal of Public Health, 87(5): 864–865.

Stall, Ronald D. (1994). How to Lose the Fight Against AIDS Among Gay Men. British Medical Journal, 6956(309): 685–6.

Stall, Ronald D.; & Catania, Joseph A. (1994). AIDS Risk Behaviors Among Late Middle-Aged and Elderly Americans: The National AIDS Behavioral Surveys. Archives of Internal Medicine, 154(1): 57–63.

Leigh, Barbara C.; & Stall, Ronald D. (1993). Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior for Exposure to HIV: Issues in Methodology, Interpretation and Prevention. American Psychologist, 48(10): 1035–1045.