The Kinsey Institute - Staff - Janssen [About the Institute]

William Yarber

Research Fellow

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

Professor

Applied Health Science, Indiana University
Gender Studies, Indiana University

Senior Director and Principal Investigator

Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Indiana University

Health, Phys Ed & Recreation
HPER 111
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-7974
E-mail: yarber@indiana.edu
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Education

H.S.D., Indiana University, 1973
M.S., Indiana University, 1968
B.S., Indiana University, 1965

Research Statement

Professor Yarber's primary research interest is HIV/STD risk behavior: including condom use errors and problems. He has published over 100 scientific and pedagogical articles in professional journals and has authored four AIDS/STD school curricula, including the nation's first school AIDS curriculum. Dr. Yarber has been the principal investigator of over $3 million in extramural grants and contracts from federal and state agencies. In 2004, Dr. Yarber was awarded the Professional Standard of Excellence Award from the American Association of Sex Educators, Therapists, and Counselors and in 2002 he received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS). Dr. Yarber is also a former consultant to the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Yarber is a past president of SSSS and chair of the board of directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. In 1991, he was awarded the Association for the Advancement of Health Education's Outstanding Scholar Award and the Indiana University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Yarber regularly teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes in human sexuality.

Selected Publications

Yarber, W.L., Milhausen, R.R., Huang, B., Crosby, R.A., Graham, C.A. & Sanders, S.A.. (In press). Is growing up in a rural area associated with less HIV/STD-related risk?: A brief report from an internet sample. The Health Education Monograph.

Crosby, R., Yarber, W., Sanders, S. & Graham, C, McBride, K., Milhausen, R.R., Arno, J.N. (2007). Men With Broken Condoms: Who and Why? Sexually Transmitted Infections, 83 (1) 71-75.

Yarber, W.L., Crosby, R.A., Graham, C.A., Sanders, S.A., Arno, J., Hartzell, R.M., McBride, K., Milhausen, R., Brown, L., Legocki, L.J., Payne, M., Rothring, A. (2007). Correlates of Putting Condoms On After Sex Has Begun and of Removing Them Before Sex Ends: A Study of Men Attending an Urban Public STD Clinic. American Journal of Men's Health. 1 (3): 190-196.

Graham, C. A., Crosby, R. A., Yarber, W. L., Sanders, S. A., McBride, K. R., Millhausen, R. R., Arno, J. N. (2006). Condom-associated erection loss among men who have sex with women attending a public STI clinic. Sexual Health, 3, 1-6.

Yarber, W.L., Milhausen, R.R., Crosby, R.A., Torabi, M. R. (2005) Public opinion about condoms for HIV and STD prevention: A midwestern state telephone survey. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 37 (3), 148-154.

Yarber, W. L., Graham, C. A., Sanders, S. A., & Crosby, R. A. (2004). Correlates of condom breakage and slippage among university undergraduates. International Journal of STDs and AIDS, 15, 467-472.

Yarber, W. L., Clark, J., Kiovsky, R. A., & Plummer, P. (2003). Difficulties in evaluating adolescent abstinence and pregnancy prevention programs in Indiana: A case study. The Health Educator, 35, 7-8.