Lynae Darbes, PhD Senior Researcher
Phone: 415-597-8143   Fax: 415-597-8299 Email: ldarbes@psg.ucsf.edu

Education

BA: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1988 Psychology
MA: University of Colorado, Boulder 1996 Clinical Psychology
PhD: University of Colorado, Boulder 2000 Clinical Psychology

Current Activities

9/01-present	Specialist II: Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
7/02-present	Project Director: State of California, Office of AIDS grant "Behavioral HIV prevention interventions for communities of color in California"
7/02-present	Co-Investigator: NIMH RO1 grant "Testing a model of HIV risk for gay male couples."
10/02-present	Consultant: World Bank, "Averting AIDS Crises in ECA (Europe and Central Asia)"
10/02-present	Core Staff, Technical Assistance and Monitoring & Evaluation Teams: CDC-funded technical assistance to Global AIDS Program, grant awarded to Institute for Global Health and UCSF

Selected Publications

Chesney, M.A. & Darbes, L.A. (1998). Social support and heart disease in women: Implications for intervention. In N. Wenger & M. Chesney (Eds.), Women, stress and heart disease (pp.165-182). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Darbes, L.A., Kennedy, G.E., Peersman, G.V., Zohrabyan, L., & Rutherford, G.W. (2001). Systematic review of HIV behavioral prevention research in Asian Americans. Report submitted to the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services.

Darbes, L.A., Kennedy, G.E., Peersman, G.V., Zohrabyan, L., & Rutherford, G.W. (2001). Systematic review of HIV behavioral prevention research in African Americans. Report submitted to the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services.

Darbes, L.A. Kennedy, G.E., Peersman, G.V., Zohrabyan, L., & Rutherford, G.W. (2001). Systematic review of HIV behavioral prevention research in Latinos. Report submitted to the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services.

Conference Presentations

Darbes, L.A. (1995, March). Coping style and pre-menstrual symptoms. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA.

Darbes, L.A., Lewis, M.A., Conner, R. & Mishra, S. (1996, June). Changes in risk behavior and theoretical implications of an AIDS education intervention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.

Lewis, M.A., Butterfield, R., Darbes, L., & Johnston-Brooks, C. (1999, March). Husbands' and wives' use of health-related social control tactics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA.

Simoneau, T.L., Darbes, L.A., & Friedman, J. (2000, April). A prospective assessment of Quality of Life following autologous transplantation for breast cancer. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Nashville, TN.

Darbes, L.A. & Lewis, M.A. (2000, April). Social support as a predictor of HIV risk behavior in gay male couples. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Nashville, TN.

Darbes, L.A., Kennedy, G.E., Peersman, G.V., Zohrabyan, L., Carson, T.L., Gomez, M., Rutherford, G.W. (2001, August). Systematic reviews of HIV behavioral prevention research in U.S. minority populations. Poster presented at the National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Darbes, L.A., Crepaz, N.. Lyles, C., Kennedy, G., Zohrabyan, L., Peersman, G., & Rutherford, G.W. (2002, July). Meta-analysis of HIV prevention interventions with African-American heterosexuals in the United States. Paper presented at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain.