Faculty

Rodger L. Beatty, PhD, LSW Assistant Professor E-mail: rbear3@pitt.edu Phone: 412-383-1775 Fax: 412-383-1513 Address: 400 Keystone 3520 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

BA; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; 1971
MPsSc; Pennsylvania State University; 1983
PhD; University of Pittsburgh; 1997

Research Interests

HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, community organizing, and public health

Research Summary

Dr. Beatty's research focuses on HIV prevention, particularly as it relates to substance abuse and sexual minorities.

In addition, he facilitates the Pennsylvania HIV Prevention Community Planning Committee for the Pennsylvania Department of Health CDC funded HIV prevention community planning group. This forty member statewide Committee creates the annual HIV prevention plan for the Commonwealth not including Philadelphia.

Dr. Beatty is a founding faculty member of the Masters in Public Health Communicable Disease Behavioral Health Sciences program as well as the Center for Research on Health and Sexual Orientation at the Graduate School of Public Health.

Dr. Beatty has been a member of the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Addiction Professionals-Serving the LGBT Communities since 1979 and served President from 1997-2002. He worked with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) developing a technical assistance publication on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender substance abuse treatment in the clinical, administrative/policy, and research arenas published in the fall of 2000.  In addition,he assisted in the writing of CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol on Men’s Health and Substance Abuse to be published in 2004. He also organized and facilitated a national group to develop Chapter 26 Substance Abuse for the Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for the LGBT Communities published in the spring of 2001. In addition, Dr. Beatty is the Chair of the Community Advisory Board of the University of Pittsburgh Pitt Treatment Evaluation Unit-the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. He also serves as Co-Chair of the University Senate Commonwealth Relations Committee for 2007-08. Dr. Beatty is a member of the Board of Directors of the Shepherd Wellness Community serving persons affected and infected with HIV since 1987.

Dr. Beatty also provides process and outcome evaluation technical assistance to the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force CDC grant, "Prevention for Positives" (PPI) implementing the Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) Rapid Testing, Voices/VOCES and Popular Opinion Leader HIV prevention interventions. In addition, he provides technical assistance on community needs assessment to the Task Force SAMHSA grant, "Partnership for Intervention and Empowerment" (PIE) a community collaboration with Persad Center, The Graduate School of Public Health and the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion developing interventions for prevention of substance use, HIV and Hepatitis C in three public housing communities of Pittsburgh, PA.

Served as a volunteer consultant for the American Psychological Association, Behavioral Social Services Volunteer program providing evidence-based theory and outcome evaluation for a faith-based HIV prevention program within a substance abuse program, STRENGTH, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA.

Recent Publications

• Beatty, R.L. (1997). Book review of W Odets (1995) In the shadow of the epidemic: Being HIV negative in the age of AIDS. J Lesbian and Gay Social Services, 5:100-102.
  
• Ryan, C., Huggins, J., and Beatty, R.L. (1999) Substance use disorders and risk of HIV infection in gay men. J Studies on Alcohol, 60:70-77.
  
• Beatty, R.L., Geckle, M., Huggins, J., Kapner, C., Lewis, K., and Sandstrom, D. (1999) Gays, lesbians and bisexuals. In B McCrady, & E Epstein (Eds) Addictions: A Comprehensive Guidebook. (pp 542-551) New York: Oxford University Press.
  
• Beatty, R.L., Gruskin, L., HSI, A., Jillson, I.A., Niesen, J., and Ross, M. (2003) Bringing science and practice in lgbt health. Clin Res Regulatory Affairs 20:229-246.
  
• Beatty, R.L. and Lewis, K.L. (2003) Substance use disorders and LGBT communities in Resource Links Vol 2, Issues 3 Fall, Northeast Addiction Transfer Technology Center Newsletter.
  
• Kennedy, N.J., Beatty, R.L., and Shankle, M.D. (2003) health and health care law and policy in Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History and Culture. Charles Scribner and Sons: NYC.
  
• Beatty, R.L., Madl, R., and Bostwick, W. (2004) LGBT substance use in Michael D. Shankle (Ed) Handbook of LGBT Public Health (published in late 2004) Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.