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Jeffrey D. Fisher Title: Professor and Head of Social Division Departmental Program: Social E-mail: jeffrey.fisher@uconn.edu Office: BOUS 165 Office Phone: (860) 486-4940 Lab Phone: (860) 486-5917 Department of Psychology 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1020 Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

• Initiation and maintenance of health behavior change, especially HIV risk behavior change
• Prosocial behavior, especially recipient reactions to help and help seeking
• Environmental psychology
• Detailed Description: Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D. is Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for HIV Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) and Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on factors associated with HIV risk behavior, and has done extensive conceptual and empirical work in the area of increasing HIV preventive behavior. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated effective HIV risk behavior change interventions. New work is starting to focus on increasing adherence, as well. Dr. Fisher's research to date has involved gay men, injection drug users, heterosexual adolescents, and individuals who are HIV-infected. He has been awarded four major HIV risk reduction grants since1989, totaling over $8 million, has lectured and consulted widely in the area of HIV preventive behavior, and was named to the Center for Disease Control's AIDS education programs evaluation committee. In addition, Dr. Fisher has served on the National Institute of Mental Health Psychobiological, Biological, and Neuroscience subcommittee, the Mental Health Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Review committee, and on the editorial board of the journal, AIDS and Behavior. Dr. Fisher is a fellow of Divisions 8, 9, and 34 of the American Psychological Association, and a fellow of the American Psychological Society.
  

Representative Publications:

• Bryan, A.D., Fisher, J.D., & Fisher, W.A. (In Press). Tests of mediational role of preparatory safer sexual behavior in the context of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Health Psychology.
• Fisher, J.D., Fisher, W.A., Bryan, A.D., Misovich, S.J. (In Press). Information motivation-behavioral skills model-based HIV risk behavior change intervention for inner city high school youth. Health Psychology.
• Bell, P., Greene, T., Fisher, J., & Baum. A. (2000). Environmental psychology (5th Ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Publishers.
• Fisher, J. D., Nadler, A., & Whitcher-Alagna, S. J. (1982). Recipient reactions to aid. Psychological Bulletin, 91, 27-54.
• Fisher, W. A., Williams, S. S., Fisher, J. D., & Malloy, T. E. (1999). Understanding AIDS risk behavior among sexually active urban adolescents. An empirical test of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model. AIDS and Behavior, 3, 13-23.
• Fisher, J. D., Misovich, S. J., Kimble, D. L., & Weinstein, B. (1999). Dynamics of HIV Risk Behavior in HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users. AIDS and Behavior, 3, 41-57.

Other:

• "Changing AIDS Risk Behavior in High School Students," National Institute of Mental Health (1R01 MH54378). September 30, 1995 - August 31, 1999, $2,189,471.
• "Physician-Delivered Intervention for HIV + Individuals," National Institute of Mental Health (1RO1 MH59473). June1, 1999-2003. $2,900,236.
• "Examining Viral Resistance to HIV as a Function of Psychosocial Factors,"
  supplemental grant (3/1/01-2/28/02), $165,879 to support: NIMH Grant Award, 1R01
  MH59473. July 15, 1999 ­ June 30, 2003. Jeffrey D. Fisher, Principal Investigator.
• "HIV Prevention Intervention with Indian Truck Drivers," National Institute of Mental Health (5R01MH59473-02). September 1, 2000- June 30, 2003, $164,908 (total direct costs $125,007). Jeffrey D. Fisher, Principal Investigator.