David Huebner

M.P.H., Ph.D.

Professor

School: Milken Institute School of Public Health

Department: Prevention and Community Health

Contact:

Email: David Huebner

David Huebner CV

950 New Hampshire Avenue, Office: 311 Washington DC 20052

David Huebner holds a PhD in clinical psychology and an MPH in epidemiology. For the past 25 years he has been conducting research on how discrimination and social marginalization in families, schools, and communities impacts HIV risk and other health outcomes among sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and young adults, and how preventive interventions can help mitigate those effects. Currently, he leads an NIH-funded clinical trial of a parent-focused HIV prevention intervention that his team developed to support families with gay or bisexual teenage boys. The intervention aims to increase parent-child communication about sexuality and HIV, as well as other parent behaviors that are supportive of adolescent sexual health. You can learn more about this work at https://parentwithlove.northwestern.edu/.

Dr. Huebner has a strong commitment to mentoring doctoral students and junior faculty, particularly those from underrepresented groups. He serves as the co-director of Social and Behavioral Sciences Core for the Washington, DC Center for AIDS Research. In this capacity, he provides mentorship and technical assistance to researchers utilizing methods from the social and behavioral sciences to study HIV/AIDS. He is also invested in supporting community organizations’ efforts to engage in evidence-based practices – he has served on several local and regional HIV prevention community planning groups, and was the Chair of the National Board of Directors for the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national nonprofit that seeks to improve K-12 school experience for sexual and gender minority youth.

Expertise

HIV/AIDS

Preventive interventions

Behavioral Health

Mental Health

Social Determinants of Health

Education

Duke University, Psychology & German, BA, Summa Cum Laude, 1995

Arizona State University, Clinical Psychology, MA, 1998

Arizona State University, Clinical Psychology, PhD, 2002

University of Washington, School of Medicine, APA Accredited Clinical Internship, 2001 – 2002

University of California, Berkeley, Epidemiology & Public Health, MPH, 2003

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002 – 2004

Research

Current NIH-funded research lead as PI:

RCT of a parent-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk in adolescent MSM (R01-MH129169)

Publications

Selected representative publications (for a full list of publications see the vita linked above).

*indicates author is/was trainee

*Barnett, A. P., & Huebner, D. M. (2024). Parent facilitation of condom access and HIV testing associated with improved sexual health outcomes for sexual minority young men. AIDS & Behavior, e-pub ahead of print.

Huebner, D. M., *Barnett, A. P., Baucom, B. R. W., Guilamo-Ramos, V. (2023). Effects of a Parent-focused HIV Prevention Intervention for Young Men who have Sex with Men: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. AIDS and Behavior, 27, 1502-1513.

Roche, K. M., Huebner, D. M., Lambert, S. F., Little, T. D. (2022). COVID-19 Stressors and Latinx Adolescents’ Mental Health Symptomology and School Performance: A Prospective Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51, 1031-1047.

Huebner, D. M., *McGarrity, L. A., *Perry, N. S., *Spivey, L. A., & Smith, T. W. (2021). Cardiovascular and cortisol responses to experimentally-induced minority stress. Health Psychology, 40, 316-325.

Huebner, D. M., & Mustanski, B. (2020). Navigating the long road forward for maximizing PrEP impact among adolescent men who have sex with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 211-216.

*McGarrity, L. A., Huebner, D. M., Smith, T. W., & Suchy, Y. (2020). Minority stress, emotion regulation, and executive function: An experimental investigation of gay and lesbian adults. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 365-376.

Huebner, D. M., Roche, K., & *Rith, K. A. (2019). Effects of family characteristics and time on parents' responses to lesbian, gay, and bisexual children. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1581-1588.

*Thoma, B. C., & Huebner, D. M. (2018). HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis engagement among adolescent men who have sex with men: The role of parent-adolescent communication about sex. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 79, 453-457.

*Thoma, B. C., & Huebner, D. M. (2018). Parent-adolescent communication about sex and condom use among young men who have sex with men: An examination of the theory of planned behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52, 973-987.

Huebner, D. M., *McGarrity, L. A., Smith, T. W., *Perry, N. S., & Suchy, Y. (2018). Changes in executive function following a stressful interpersonal task are associated with condomless anal intercourse among men who have sex with men. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52, 406-411.

Huebner, D. M., & *Perry, N. (2015). Do behavioral scientists really understand HIV-related sexual risk behavior? A systematic review of longitudinal and experimental studies. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1915-1936.

Huebner, D. M., *Thoma, B. C., & Neilands, T. B. (2015). Anti-gay victimization in school and substance abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescents. Prevention Science, 16, 734-43.

Huebner, D. M., Kegeles, S. M., Rebchook, G. M., Neilands, T. B., Johnson, W. D., & Eke, A. N. (2014). Social oppression, psychological vulnerability, and unprotected intercourse among young black men who have sex with men. Health Psychology, 33, 1568-1578.

*McGarrity, L. A., & Huebner, D. M. (2014). Behavioral intentions to HIV test and subsequent testing: The moderating role of socio-demographic characteristics. Health Psychology, 33, 396-400.

*McGarrity, L. A., & Huebner, D. M. (2014). Is being out about sexual orientation universally healthy? The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a prospective study of gay and bisexual men. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 47, 28-38.

Huebner, D. M., *Rullo, J. E., *Thoma, B. C., *McGarrity, L., Mackenzie, J. (2013). Piloting Lead with Love: A film-based campaign to improve parents’ responses to their lesbian, gay, and bisexual children. Journal of Primary Prevention, 34, 359-369.

Teaching

Multi-Level Interventions for Health Promotion (PubH 8534)

Planning and Implementing Health Promotion Programs (PubH 6500)