David J. Malebranche, MD, MPH, is a clinician-researcher with expertise in the clinical management of HIV and behavioral HIV prevention research with Black men in the United States. He is currently primary care physician at the University of Pennsylvania's Student Health Center in Philadelphia, PA, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and is recognized as an HIV Specialist from the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr. Malebranche is also an experienced qualitative HIV behavioral prevention researcher who has completed several studies on sexual health among Black men of diverse sexualities. Dr. Malebranche’s work has been featured in medical and public health journals such as The Annals of Internal Medicine, The American Journal of Public Health, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, Men and Masculinities, The Archives of Sexual Behavior and The Journal of the National Medical Association. He is known as a dynamic speaker nationwide and has appeared in documentaries on CNN, ABC News Primetime, TV One and Black Entertainment Television (BET) for his expertise on HIV in the Black community. Dr. Malebranche also served as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) from 2006 – 2008, and was the HIV/AIDS clinical expert on WebMD from 2010 - 2012.
Black MSM and HIV
Common roots: a contextual review of HIV epidemics in black men who have sex with men across the African diaspora (with Gregorio A. Millett, William L. Jeffries 4h, John L. Peterson, Tim Lane, Stephen A. Flores, Kevin A. Fenton, Patrick A. Wilson, Riley Steiner, and Charles M. Heilig), The Lancet (2012)
Pooled estimates from across the African diaspora show that black men who have sex with...
HIV Risk and Perceptions of Masculinity Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (with Errol L. Fields, Laura M. Bogart, Katherine C. Smith, Jonathan Ellen, and Mark A. Schuster), Journal of Adolescent Health (2011)
Purpose: Young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) are known to have the...
The Relationship Between Gender Role Conflict and Condom Use among Black MSM (with Roman Gvetadze, Gregorio A. Millett, and Madeline Y. Sutton), AIDS and Behavior (2011)
Gender role conflict may influence condom use among black MSM. We examined relationships between the...
Masculine Socialization and sexual risk behaviors among Black men who have sex with men: A qualitative exploration (with Errol L. Fields, Lawrence O. Bryant, and Shaun R. Harper), Men and Masculinities (2009)
Aspects of masculine socialization among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) and potential...
Childhood sexual abuse in Black men who have sex with men: Results from three qualitative studies (with Sheldon D. Fields and Sonja Feist-Price), Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology (2008)
This report describes the high prevalence and context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among Black...
Narrative Writings
Bisexuality
Sexual health and life experiences: Voices from behaviourally bisexual Latino men in the midwestern USA (with Omar Martinez, Brian Dodge, Michael Reece, Phillip W. Schnarrs, Scott D. Rhodes, Gabriel Goncalves, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Barbara Van Der Pol, Ryan Nix, Guadalupe Kelle, and J Dennis Fortenberry), Culture, Health & Sexuality (2011)
Research on behaviourally bisexual Latino men in the USA has not yet examined sexual health...
Exploring the "Bisexual Bridge": A qualitative study of risk behavior and disclosure of same-sex behavior among black bisexual men (with Kim Arriola, Tyrrell R. Jenkins, Emily Dauria, and Shilpa N. Patel), American Journal of Public Health (2010)
Objectives. We explored factors influencing sexual behavior, disclosure of same-sex behavior, and condom-use practices among...
Bisexually active Black men in the United States and HIV: Acknowledging more than the "down low", Archives of Sexual Behavior (2008)
HIV is disproportionately impacting Black men who have sex with men and heterosexual women in...
Focusing "down low": Bisexual Black men, HIV risk and heterosexual transmission (with Gregorio Millett, Byron Mason, and Pilgrim Spikes), Journal of the National Medical Association (2005)
Introduction: Black men who have sex with men (MSM) and women but who do not...
Various Medical and other writings
Partner notification: A promising approach to addressing the HIV/AIDS racial disparity in the United States (with Patricia Kissinger), American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2007)
Adverse health outcomes among Black Americans: Living with HIV - Nature or Nurture?, Positively Aware (2005)
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Time to address the problem, Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy (2005)
Masculinity and Black men
Parents, peers and pornography: the influence of formative sexual scripts on adult HIV sexual risk behaviour among Black men in the USA (with Sophia A. Hussen, Lisa Bowleg, and Thurka Sangaramoorthy), Culture, Health & Sexuality (2012)
Black men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, particularly in the...
What does it take to be a man? What is a real man?': ideologies of masculinity and HIV sexual risk among Black heterosexual men (with Lisa Bowleg, Michelle Teti, Jenne S. Massie, Aditi Patel, and Jeanne M. Tschann), Culture, Health & Sexuality (2011)
Research documents the link between traditional ideologies of masculinity and sexual risk among multi-ethnic male...
Health Care Access
HIV testing practices among black primary care physicians in the United States (with Eric Y. Wong, Wilbert C. Jordan, Lori L. DeLaitsch, Rebecca Abravanel, Alisha Bermudez, and Bryan P. Baugh), BMC Public Health (2013)
Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV testing in all healthcaresettings,...
Health Care and HIV Testing Experiences among Black Men in the South: Implications for "Seek, Test, Treat and Retain" HIV Prevention Strategies (with Rupali K. Doshi, Lisa Bowleg, and Thurka Sangaramoorthy), AIDS Patient Care and STDs (2013)
Few studies have explored how overall general health care and HIV/STI testing experiences may influence...