B. R. Simon Rosser, Ph.D., M.P.H., L.P.
Professor
M.P.H. in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical/Research Sexology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Ph.D. in Behavioral Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
M.A.(hons.) in Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
B.A. in Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Teaches:
PUBH 6015 - HIV/AIDS: Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions
PUBH 6000 - e-Public Health - Topics: Community Health Education
HIV/STI Prevention;
HIV/STI Intervention and Prevention Studies (HIPS) Program
Research Interests:
HIV/STI prevention, sexual health, sex, male homosexuality, prevention for HIV+ persons, religious and sexual identity formation, Internet sex, Internet-based Public Health surveys and interventions, virtual community health.
>>> Research Projects
Recent Publications:
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Rosser, B.R.S., Oakes, J.M., Horvath, K.J., Konstan, J.A., & Peterson, J. L. (2009). HIV sexual risk behavior by men who use the Internet to seek sex with men: Results of the Men’s INTernet Sex Study-II (MINTS-II). AIDS and Behavior, 13(3), 488-498.
Coleman, E., Horvath, K.J., Miner, M.H., Ross, M.W., Oakes, J.M., Rosser, B.R.S., & the Men’s INTernet Sex (MINTS-II) Team (2009). Compulsive sexual behavior and risk for Unsafe Sex among Men who use the Internet to seek sex with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2009 July 9 [Epub ahead of print]
Hatfield, L.A., Horvath, K.J., Jacoby, S.M., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2009). Drug and alcohol use in HIV-positives and its relationship to unsafe sex. Accepted by Journal of Addictive Diseases.
Brennan, D.J., Welles, S., Miner, M.H., Mayer, K., Ross, M.W., & Rosser, B.R.S., & the Positive Connections Team. (2009). Development of a treatment optimism scale for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men. AIDS Care, 21(9), 1090-1097.
Miner, M.H., Peterson, J.L., Welles, S.L., Jacobs, S.M., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2009) How do social norms impact HIV sexual risk behavior in HIV positive men who have sex with men: Multiple mediator effects. Journal of Health Psychology, 14(6), 761-770.
Rosser, B.R.S, Gurak, L., Horvath, K.J., Oakes, J.M., Konstan, J. & Danilenko, G. (2009). The challenges of ensuring participant consent in Internet-based sex studies: A case study of the MINTS I & II Studies. Journal of Computer Mediated Communications, 14(3), 602-626.
Seibel, S.L, Rosser, B.R.S., Horvath, K.J. & Evans, C.D. (2009). Sexual dysfunction, paraphilias and their relationship to childhood abuse in men who have sex with men. International Journal of Sexual Health, 21(2), 79-86.
Ross, M.W., Rosser, B.R.S., Neumeier, E. & the Positive Connections Team. (2008). The relationship of internalized homonegativity to unsafe sexual behavior in HIV seropositive men who have sex with men. AIDS Education and Prevention, 20(6), 547-557.
Welles, S.L., Baker, C., Miner, M., Brennan, D., Jacoby, S., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2008). History of childhood sexual abuse and unsafe anal intercourse in a six-city study of HIV+ men who have sex with men. American Journal of Public Health, 99(6), 1079-1086.
Rosser, B.R.S., Miner, M.H., Bockting, W.O., Ross, M.W., Konstan, J., Gurak, L., Stanton, J., Carballo-Diéguez, A., Mazin, R., & Coleman, E. (2008). HIV risk and the Internet: Results of the Men’s INTernet Study (MINTS). AIDS and Behavior, 13(4), 746-756.
Smolenski, D.J., Ross, M. W., Risser, J. M., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2009). Sexual compulsivity and high-risk sexual behavior: The role of internalized homonegativity and gay organizations. AIDS Care, 21, 42-49.
Horvath, K.J., Remafedi, G., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2008). Sexual risk taking among young Internet-using men who have sex with men. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 1059-1067.
Horvath, K.J., Oakes, J.M., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2008). Sexual negotiation and HIV serodisclosure among men who have sex with men with their online and offline partners. Journal of Urban Health, 85(5), 744-758.
Rosser, B.R.S., Bockting, W.O., Ross, M.W., Miner, M.H., & Coleman, E. (2008). The relationship between homosexuality, internalized homo-negativity, and mental health in men who have sex with men. Journal of Homosexuality, 55, 185-203.
Hooper, S., Rosser, B.R.S., Horvath, K.J., Oakes, J.M., Danilenko, G., & the Men's INTernet Sex II (MINTS-II) Team. (2008). Conducting a needs assessment for Internet-based HIV prevention: Results from the Men’s INTernet Sex (MINTS-II) Study II. AIDS and Behavior, 12(6), 867-875.
Rosser, B.R.S., West, W., & Weinmeyer, R. (2008). Are gay communities dying or just in transition? An international consultation from the Eighth AIDS Impact Conference examining structural change in gay communities. AIDS Care, 20(5), 588-595.
Rosser, B.R.S., Horvath, K.J, Hatfield, L.A., Peterson, J.L., Jacoby, S.M., Stately, A. & the Positive Connections Team. (2008). Predictors of HIV disclosure to secondary partners and sexual risk behavior among a high-risk sample of HIV positive MSM: Results from six epicenters in the US. AIDS Care, 20(8), 925-930.
O’Dell, B.L., Rosser, B.R.S., Miner, M.H., & Jacoby, S.M. (2008). HIV prevention altruism and sexual risk behavior in HIV-positive men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior, 12(5), 713-720.
Rosser, B.R.S., & Horvath, K.J. (2008). Predictors of success in HIV prevention in rural America: A state level structural factor analysis of HIV prevention targeting men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior, 12(2), 159-168.
Rosser, B.R.S. (2008). Working as a psychologist in the Emergency Reserve Corps: Providing emergency mental health relief services in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39, 37-44.
Rosser, B.R.S., Oakes, J.M., Bockting, W.O., Babes, G., & Miner, M. (2007). Capturing the social demographics of hidden sexual minorities: An Internet study of the transgender population in the United States. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 4(2), 50-64.
Miner, M.H., Coleman, C., Center, B.A., Ross, M.W., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2007). The Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory: Psychometric properties. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36, 579-587.
Pequegnat, W., Rosser, B.R.S., Bowen, A., Bull, S.S., DiClemente, R.J., Bockting, W.O., Elford, J., Fishbein, M., Gurak, L., Horvath, K., Konstan, J., Noar, S., Ross, M.W., Sherr, L., Spiegel, D., & Zimmerman, R. (2007). Conducting Internet-based HIV/STD prevention survey research: Considerations in design and evaluation. AIDS and Behavior, 11, 505-521.
West, W., Rosser, B.R.S., Hooper, S., Monani, S, & Gurak, L. (2007). How learning styles impact e-Learning: A case-comparative study of undergraduate students who excelled, passed, or failed an online course in scientific writing. Journal of Administrators of Electronic Learning, 3(4), 533-541.
Ross, M.W., Rosser, B.R.S., McCurdy, S., & Feldman, J. (2007). The advantages and limitations of seeking sex online: A comparison of reasons given for online and offline sexual liaisons by men who have sex with men. Journal of Sex Research, 44(1), 59-71. Bockting, W., Miner, M., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2007). Latino men’s sexual behavior with transgender partners. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36: 778-786.
Kraft, C., Robinson, B.E., Nordstrom, D.L., Bockting, W.O., Rosser, B.R.S. (2006). Obesity, body image and unsafe sex in men who have sex with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 587-595.
Ross, M.W, Rosser B.R.S., Coleman, E., & Mazin, R. (2006). Misrepresentation on the Internet and in real life about sex and HIV: A study of men who have sex with men. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 8(2), 133-144.
Carballo-Diéguez, A., Miner, M., Dolezal, C., Rosser, B.R.S., & Jacoby, S. (2006). Sexual negotiation, HIV-status disclosure, and sexual risk behavior among Latino men who use the Internet to seek sex with other men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35 (4), 473-481.
Bockting, W., Huang, C-H, Ding, H., Robinson, B., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2005). Are transgender persons at higher risk for HIV than other sexual minorities? International Journal of Transgenderism, 8(2/3).
Damon, W., & Rosser, B.R.S. (2005). Anodyspareunia in men who have sex with men: Prevalence, predictors, consequences and the development of DSM diagnostic criteria. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 31, 129-141.
Konstan, J.A., Rosser, B.R.S., Ross, M.W., Stanton, J., & Edwards, W.M. (2005). The story of Subject Naught: A cautionary but optimistic tale of internet survey research. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2005, 10(2), article 11. At: http://jcmc.indiana/edu/vol10/issue2/konstan.html.
Minwalla, O., Rosser, B.R.S., Feldman, J., & Varga, C. (2005). Identity formation among progressive gay Muslims in North America: A qualitative study within Al-Fatiha. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 7(2), 113-128.
Ross, M.W., Rosser, B.R.S., Stanton, J., & Konstan J. (2004). Characteristics of Latino men who have sex with men on the Internet who complete and drop out of an Internet-based sexual behavior survey. AIDS Education and Prevention, 16(6), 526-537. |
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Professional Experience:
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2006 – present Professor and Director, HIV/STI Intervention and Prevention Studies (HIPS) Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
1999 – 2006 Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
2000 – 2003 Visiting Behavioral Scientist, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Intervention, Research and Support, National Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA |
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Honors:
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2003 Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA), Division 44
2000 Fellow, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS)
1998 Elected Full Member, International Academy of Sex Research, Sirmione, Italy
1992 Male Homosexual Behavior and the Effects of AIDS Education, awarded "Outstanding Academic Work" by the Journal of the American Library Association |
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Phone:(612) 624-0358
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Email: rosser@umn.edu
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