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Matthew Hogben, PhD
Behavioral Scientist

Biography

Dr. Hogben currently serves as the Chief of the Behavioral Interventions and Research Branch (BIRB) in the Division of STD Prevention.  BIRB staff, in collaboration with internal and external partners, conduct a variety of domestic and international scientifically-driven research and program development activities, with particular attention to health communications and social marketing, individual-level and structural interventions, and policy.  Topic areas, relevant to public and private settings, include STD partner management, health care seeking and provision, and technological innovation for better STD health care.   

Dr. Hogben is personally involved in several innovative interventions seeking to improve management of sex partners of persons infected with bacterial STDs, principally gonococcal and chlamydial infections. Much of this work is reflected in the production of recommendations for integrated HIV and STD partner services, in cooperation with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, released in late 2008. He has also 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 numerous public health and social science journals such as Sexually Transmitted Infections and the American Journal of Public Health. He is a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the American Public Health Association and serves on the editorial board of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

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

Martin T, Hogben M, Carlton AL, Liddon NC, Koumans E. Attitudes toward using condoms and condom use: Differences between sexually abused and non-abused African American female adolescents. Behavioral Medicine 2008; 34(2):35-54.

Hodge JG, Pulver A, Hogben M, Bhattacharya D, Brown EF. Expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted diseases: Assessing the legal environment. American Journal of Public Health  2008; 98: 238-243.

Hogben M. Partner notification for sexually transmitted diseases. Clinical Infectious Diseases  2007; 44: S160-S174.
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Hogben M, McNally T, McPheeters M, Hutchinson A. The effectiveness of HIV partner counseling and referral services in increasing identification of HIV-positive individuals: A systematic review.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine  2007; 33(Suppl 2): S89-S100.
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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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