Dr. Jeffrey Fisher
Dr. Jeffrey Fisher is a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on factors associated with HIV risk behavior, and has done conceptual and empirical work in the area of increasing HIV preventive behavior. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated effective HIV risk behavior change interventions. His work also focuses on increasing adherence to ART, and on health behavior change in general. 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 five major NIMH HIV risk reduction grants since 1989, totaling over $14 million, has lectured and consulted internationally 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, as well as other journals. Dr. Fisher is a fellow of Divisions 8, 9, and 34 of the American Psychological Association, and a fellow of the American Psychological Society.
