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Matthew Hogben, PhD
Behavioral Scientist

Biography

Dr. Hogben currently coordinates a team conducting several innovative interventions seeking to improve management of sex partners of persons infected with bacterial STDs, principally gonococcal and chlamydial infections. He is also evaluating the status and prospects for expedited partner therapy mechanisms with colleagues from CDC and from the University of Washington and has started a working group to keep ongoing examination of STD partner management. He has recently overseen a multi-site, multiple-intervention project aimed at improving the frequency and quality of adolescent health care-seeking through increasing the quality of sexual histories. Outcomes from this project are still being analyzed.

Immediately prior to joining CDC as a full-time scientist, he split his time as a post-doctoral fellow among the CDC, Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr. Hogben’s work broadly involves applying the principles of behavioral and social science to STD-relevant behaviors as part of both observation and intervention, with the goal of providing as complete as possible a portrait of the domain of STDs and prospects for reducing them.

Dr. Hogben reviews for several public health and social science journals such as Sexually Transmitted Infections and Basic and Applied Social Psychology. He is a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Hogben also serves on CDC’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group as the Chair of the Professional Liaisons subcommittee.

He received his PhD in social psychology and MA in psychology from the State University of New York. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Selected Publications

Golden MR, Whittington WLH, Handsfield HH, Hughes JP, Stamm WE, Hogben M, Clark A, Malinski C, Larson J, Thomas KK, Holmes KK. Effect of expedited treatment of sex partners on recurrent or persistent gonorrhea or chlamydial infection. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(7):676-685.
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Hogben M, McCree DH, Golden MR. Patient-delivered partner therapy for sexually transmitted diseases as practiced by U.S. physicians. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2005;32(2):101-105.
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Hogben M, Ledsky R, Middlestadt SE, VanDevanter NL, Messeri P, Merzel C, Bleakley A, Sionean CK, St. Lawrence JS. Psychological mediating factors in an intervention to promote adolescent health care-seeking. Psychology, Health, & Medicine 2005;10(1):64-77.
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Hogben M, St. Lawrence JS, Montano D, Kasprzyk D, Phillips WR. Physicians' opinions about partner notification methods: case reporting, patient referral, and provider referral. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2004;80(1):30-34.
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St. Lawrence JS, Kuo W-H, Hogben M, Montaño DE, Kasprzyk D, Phillips WR. STD care: Variations in clinical care associated with provider sex, patient sex, patients' self-reported symptoms or high-risk behaviors, and partner STD history. Social Science & Medicine 2004;59(5):1011-1018.
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