Robert Kaplan,
Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of
New York (CUNY), is the former Director of Writing
and Communications, and now works as a writing consultant. He is responsible for editing
the Center’s grant applications, project reports, publications,
curricula, manuals, presentations, and any other project materials;
he also assists with the production of all significant internal and
external documents. He conducts workshops on writing concept papers,
abstracts, literature reviews, and other types of writing and research
used in public health. Prior to joining the Center in 2003, Mr. Kaplan
worked in the Hunter College Program in Urban
Public Health, helping faculty to develop writing-based
public health curricula and assisting undergraduate and graduate students
to develop the critical writing, reading, and thinking skills needed
by public health professionals.
Publications:
Krauss, B., O'Day,
J., Godfrey, C., Rente, K., Freidin, L., Bratt, E., et al. [Kaplan,
R.] (2006). Who wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence
and an emerging single standard among adolescent women. Annals of
the New York Academy of Sciences, 1087 (November), 56-73.
Krauss, B., Godfrey,C.,
O’Day, J., Freidin, E., & Kaplan, R. (2006). Learning to
live with an epidemic: Reducing stigma and increasing safe and sensitive
socializing with persons with HIV. In M. E. Lyon & L. J. D’Angelo
(Eds.). Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights from youth living with
the virus (pp. 83-103). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Krauss, B., O'Day, J., Freidin, E., Hodorek, S., & Kaplan, R.
(2006, August). An educational intervention to improve attitudes and
increase social interaction with persons living with HIV: Effects
of a parent training on parents and children living in a 10% HIV seroprevalence
community [Abstract]. XVI-th International AIDS Conference, Conference
Record, Vol. 2, 210.
Minian, N., Krauss,
B., Kaplan, R., Nwakeze, P., Martinez, A., & Hamdi, H. (2006,
August). Understanding age-related risk behaviors in order to reduce
HIV [Abstract]. XVI-th International AIDS Conference, Conference Record,
Vol. 2, 405-406.
Krauss, B., O'Day, J.,
Godfrey, C., Rente, K., Freidin, L., Bratt, E., et al. [Kaplan, R.]
(2006). Who wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence and
an emerging single standard among adolescent women. Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, 1087 (November), 56-73. (please note
that this is now listed in the pubs as "In Press."
Presentations:
Krauss, B., McGinniss,
S., O’Day, J., Hodorek, S., Bournea, M. & Kaplan, R. (2007,
July). Delaying tactics: Parent HIV education as a protective factor
for early sexual debut. Poster presented at NIMH International Conference
on the Role of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, San
Francisco, CA.
Krauss, B., Rosen,
D., Welch, A., Culleton, B., Kaplan, R., & Chowdhury, F. (2007,
June). Interacting with ease: Reducing the stigma of HIV and promoting
positive caring for persons living with HIV. Presented at the HIV
Care Network of the Greater Hudson Valley, Newburgh, NY.
Krauss, B., Rosen,
D., Welch, A., Culleton, B., Kaplan, R., & Chowdhury, F. (2007,
May). Reducing the stigma of HIV through a theory-based, skill-building
intervention. Invited Benjamin B. Wolman Award Address [Beatrice J.
Krauss, Awardee], 15th Annual Undergraduate Psychology Conference,
Pace University, New York, NY.
Krauss, B., Rosen,
D., Welch, A., Culleton, B., Kaplan, R., & Chowdhury, F. (2007,
May). Interacting with ease: Reducing the stigma of HIV and promoting
positive caring for persons living with HIV. Presented at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds, New York, NY.
Rosen, D. Krauss,
B., Welch, A., Culleton, B., Kaplan, R., & Chowdhury, F. (2007,
February). Interacting with ease: Reducing the stigma of HIV and promoting
positive caring. Presented at the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit, Bellevue
Hospital, Center for AIDS Research, New York University School of
Medicine, New York, NY.
Krauss, B.J.,
O Day, J., Freidin, E., Hodorek, S. & Kaplan, R. (2006, August).
Poster presentation. An educational intervention to improve attitudes
and increase social interaction with persons living with HIV: Effects
of a parent training on parents and children living in a 10% HIV seroprevalence
community. XVI-th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Minian, N., Krauss,
B., Kaplan, R., Nwakeze, P., Martinez, A., & Hamdi, H. (2006,
August). Poster presentation. Understanding age-related risk behaviors
in order to reduce HIV. XVI-th International AIDS Conference, Toronto,
Canada.
Minian, N., Rente,
R., O Day, J., Krauss, B., Kaplan, R., & Bratt, E. (2006, July).
Poster presentation. Redefining common perceptions of parenthood in
young men and women. NIMH International Conference on the Role of
Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
Aledort, N., Bratt,
E., Leonard, N., Gwadz, M., Kaplan, R., & Krauss, B. (2005, July).
Poster presentation. What youth want from parents regarding HIV VCT,
and what providers don’t know: Discussing the disconnect. The
National Institute of Mental Health Annual International Research
Conference on the Role of the Families in Preventing and Adapting
to HIV/AIDS, Brooklyn, NY.
Godfrey, C., Minian,
N., Krauss, B., Nwakeze, P., Freudenberg, N., & Kaplan, R. (2004,
November). Poster presentation. Seeing the problem: The role of self-awareness
in reducing alcohol use among individuals experiencing multiple high
risk contexts. The American Public Health Association 132nd Annual
Conference, Washington, DC.
Welch, C., Rente,
K., O’Day, J., Godfrey, C., Krauss, B., Minian, N., Kaplan,
R., Kapungu, C., Tolou-Shams, M., & Sturdivant, A. (2004, July).
Poster presentation. The role of friends as family in providing life
direction and preventing HIV. The National Institute of Mental Health
Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in
Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, GA.
