Alberto Curotto, PhD
Research Specialist
In my work at CAPS, my primary focus has been on qualitative and mixed-methods HIV-prevention research with gay and bisexual men. I’ve worked in various capacities—as co-investigator, interviewer, project coordinator, and project director—on a number of projects (funded by the CDC, the NIMH, and the CHRP) aimed at exploring the role of the Internet in the lives of gay men and its potential as a tool for HIV prevention and sexual-health promotion. I have also participated, as an ethnographer, in venue-based studies with the goal to evaluate the venues’ role in HIV-risk behaviors and to develop venue-specific interventions. Most recently, I have been working on collaborative research with community-based organizations and public-health organizations.
In a not-too-distant past, I was a college professor of foreign languages and literature, and a free-lance editor and published translator.
Research interests
Community collaborations; Cultural anthropology; Ethics; Ethnographic research; Gay men; Health disparities; HIV prevention; HIV-positive health; Internet; Intervention research; MSM; Sexual health; Sexuality; Sexual and Social networks; Social justice; Social marketing
Current research
- Assessing the Adaptation and Implementation of MPowerment (AAIM)
- International Travel Research to Inform Prevention (I-TRIP)
Publications
Rebchook, G, Curotto, A. Sexual Networks Online in Herdt, G and Howe,
C (Eds.) 21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary issues in health, education
and rights. London: Routledge, 2007
Education
1993, PhD (ABD) (Comparative Studies in Culture, Theory, and Literature), Emory University, Atlanta, GA1988, PhD (Linguistics and Anglo-American Studies), University of Florence, Italy
1980, BA (Foreign Languages and Literature), Florence, Italy
Contact
50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco , CA 94105
Voice: (415) 597-4996
Fax: (415) 597-9213
Email: alberto.curotto AT ucsf.edu
