Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Research Methods, Special Studies

Hesc 475:  Health Science Planning, Research and Evaluation; HESC 401: Epidemiology  

Anthony DiStefano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). He received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before coming to CSUF, he completed a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded postdoctoral training program at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and taught epidemiology at California State University, East Bay.

Dr. DiStefano’s research focuses on HIV/AIDS, violence, and how these are connected. He is a proponent of interdisciplinary, cross-methodological dialogues in public health research –particularly among biomedical, epidemiologic, and social-behavioral approaches, the qualitative and quantitative techniques associated with these perspectives, and inductive and deductive paradigms for theory building and testing. 

Dr. DiStefano currently is engaged in a program of research examining how, and to what degree, medical and social service providers are addressing the intersection of HIV/AIDS and specific forms of violence. He is preparing a grant application for a cross-sectional study on this topic, based on findings from a recent qualitative study on which he was the Principal Investigator. Concurrently, he is the co-evaluator of a CDC-funded tobacco prevention program for the Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership.