Amie M. Ashcraft, MPH, PhD,
TAPS postdoctoral fellow
Research interests
- The influence of gender, relationships, and sexual "scripts" on women's risky and protective sexual behavior, including beliefs about the sharing of resources, power, and decision-making within relationships
- Parent/child communication regarding sexuality, sexual behavior, and risk reduction
- Cultural, contextual, and intrapersonal predictors of sexual attitudes and behaviors in adolescent girls and women
Current research
- Gender socialization and risky sexual attitudes of girls
Education
- 2006, MPH, (Epidemiology), University of California Berkeley
- 2004, PhD, (Social Psychology), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- 2001, MS, (Social Psychology), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- 1999, BA, (Psychology), honors program, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
Publications
Ashcraft, A. M. (December 2004). Richmond Teen Pregnancy Prevention Needs Assessement. Commissioned by the Richmond Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, Virginia Department of Health.
Ashcraft, A. M. (2004). Review of the Book Sexual health information for teens: Health tips about sexual development, human reproduction, and sexually transmitted diseases. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96, 1244 .
Ashcraft, A. M., & Belgrave, F. Z. (2005). Gender identity development in urban African American girls. In J. W. Lee (Ed.), Gender roles , pp. 1-31. Hauppauge , NY : Nova Biomedical.
Corneille, M., Ashcraft, A. M., & Belgrave, F. Z. (2005). What's culture got to do with it?: Prevention programs for African American adolescent girls. The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 16 , 38-47.
Ashcraft, A. M., & McFarland, W. (2006). Safe, safer, safest: the hierarchy of sexual risk behaviors for HIV. Focus 21 (1), 1-5.
Boyd, K., Ashcraft, A., & Belgrave, F. Z. (2006). The impact of mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships on drug refusal self-efficacy among African American adolescent girls in urban communities. Journal of Black Psychology, 32 (1), pp. 29-42.
Contact
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
University of California, San Francisco
50 Beale St., Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 597-9182
Fax: 415-597-9213
Email: amie.ashcraft@ucsf.edu