Celia Fisher

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Fisher, C., Bragard, E., Madhavanan, P. (2023). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Economically Marginalized Hispanic Parents of Children under Five Years in the United States. Vaccines, 11, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11030599

Lee, J., Albrechta, H., Goodman, G., De, D., Takabatake, K., O’Cleirigh, C., Mayer, K., Fisher, C., Carnes, C. Chai, P. R,.(2023). Diversity in Digital Pill Systems: Differences in Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Use of a Digital Pill System for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Men Who Have Sex With Men with Diverse Racial and Ethnic Identities.Proc Annu Hawaii Int Conf Syst Sci 2023:2933-2942. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102992. PMID: 36654663 PMCID: PMC9843706.

Tao, X., Yip, T., Fisher, C. B. (2023) Psychological Well-being and Substance Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethnic/Racial Identity, Discrimination and Vigilance. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 28, 1-10.10.1007/s40615-022-01497-y

Chai PR, De D, Albrechta H, Goodman GR, Takabatake K, Ben-Arieh A, Lee JS, Glynn TR, Mayer KH, O'Cleirigh C, Fisher, CB. (2023). Attitudes towards participating in research involving digital pill systems to measure oral HIV pre-exposure chemoprophylaxis: a cross-sectional study among men who have sex with men with substance use in the United States. BMJ Open. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1/e067549.full.

Tao, X., Liu, T., Fisher, C. B., Giorgi, S., & Curtis, B. (2023). COVID-related social determinants of substance use disorder among diverse US racial ethnic groups. Social Science Medicine, 115599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115599

Fisher, C. B., Bragard, E., Jaber, R., & Gray, A. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents of Children under Five Years in the United States.Vaccines10(8), 1313. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10081313

Gray, A. & Fisher, C. B. (2022) Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in adolescents 12 – 17 years old: Examining pediatric vaccine hesitancy among racially diverse parents in the United States. Frontiers in Public Health: Children and Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.844310.

Bragard, E., & Fisher, C. B. (2022). Associations between sexting motivations and consequences among adolescent girls. Journal of Adolescence. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12000

Layman, D., & Fisher, C. B. (2022). "Profiles of psychological strengths on symptom distress, recovery, and quality of life among young adults with a history of adolescent psychiatric hospitalization." Community Mental Health Journal.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-022-00936-8.

Fisher, C. B., Gray, A., & Sheck, I. (2022).  COVID-19 pediatric vaccine hesitancy among racially diverse parents in the United States Vaccines (MDPI Journal), 10(1), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010031.

Bonner, C. P., Fisher, C. B., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Gichane, M. W., Howrd, B. N., Turner, L., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2021). “Because all mothers are not the same”: The development and implementation of an in loco parentis informed consent procedure to enroll adolescent girls and young women to participate in HIV research. Journal of Adolescence, 93, 234-244.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34896961

Shrestha, R., Fisher, C. B., Wickersham, J. A., Azwa, I., Khati, A. & Goldsamt, L. (2021). Privacy and confidentiality concerns related to the use of mHealth apps for HIV prevention efforts among Malaysian men who have sex with men: Cross-sectional survey study. JMIR, 5. https://formative.jmir.org/2021/12/e28311

Azhar, S., Tao, X., Jokhakar, V., & Fisher, C. B. (2021) Barriers and facilitators to participation in long-acting injectable PrEP research trials for MSM, transgender women, and gender-nonconforming people of color. AIDS Education and Prevention465 – 482. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2021.33.6.465

Fisher, C. B., Tao, X., Liu, T., Giorgi, S., & Curtis, B. L. (2021). COVID-Related Victimization, Racial Bias and Employment and Housing Disruption Increase Mental Health Risk Among US Asian, Black and Latinx Adults.Frontiers in public health 1625. PMID:34778197. PMCID:PMC8585986. DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2021.772236

Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2021). Exposure to social media racial discrimination and mental health among adolescents of color.Journal of youth and adolescence, 1-15.  PMCID: PMC8535107. PMID: 34686952. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021.-01514-z

Gray, A. & Fisher, C. B. (2021). Predictors of contraceptive self-efficacy and condom use among young Black women who have sex with women and men. Journal of Bisexuality. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15299716.2021.1971592.

Meunier, É., Sundelson, A. E., Tellone, S., Alohan, D., Fisher, C. B., & Grov, C. (2021). Willingness to Attend Sex Venues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City: Results from an Online Survey with Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals. Journal of Urban Health, 98(4), 469–480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00539-w

Tao, X., Bragard, E. & Fisher, C.B. (2021). Risks and Benefits of Adolescent Girls’ Participation in Online Sexting Survey Research. Arch Sex Behav. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02003-x

Fonner, V. A. , Ntogwisangu, J., Hamidu, I., Joseph, J., Fields, J., Evans, E., Kilewo, J., Bailey, C., Goldsamt, L., Fisher, C. B. , O’Reilly, K R. , Ruta, T, Mbwambo, J. & Sweat, M. (2021). “We are in this together:”Dyadic-level influence and decision-making among HIV serodiscordant couples in Tanzania receiving access to PrEP. BMC Public Health, 21, 720. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10707-x

Yip, T., Feng, Y., Fowle, J. & Fisher, C. B. (2021). Sleep disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic An Investigation of AIAN, Asian, Black, Latinx and White young adults.  Sleep Health: Journal of the National Sleep Foundation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.05.008

Brown, B., Taylor, J. & Fisher, C.B. (2021).  Mitigating Isolation of People Aging With HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic Public Health Reports. Volume 136, 394 – 396.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549211015661

Abadie, R., Fisher, C. B., & Dombrowski, K. (2021). “He’s under oath”: Privacy and Confidentiality views among people who inject drugs enrolled in a study of social networks and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Hepatitis C Virus risk.Journal of empirical research on Human Research Ethics, 1 – 8. sagepub.com/journals-permissions.  DOI:10.1177/15562646211004411.  

Fisher, C. B., Puri, L. I., Macapagal, K., Feuerstahler, L., Ahn, J. R., & Mustanski, B. (2021). Competence to consent to oral and injectable PrEP trials among adolescent males who have sex with males. AIDS & Behavior, 25, 1606-1618. PMID: 33247336.  DOI:10.1007/s10461-020-03077-9. 

Clark, D. B., Fisher, C. B., Bookheimer, S., Brown, S. A., Evans, J. H., Hopfer, C., Hudziak, J., Montoya, I., Murray, M., Pfefferbaum, A., Yurgelun-Todd, D.  (2018). Biomedical ethics and clinical oversight in multisite observational neuroimaging studies with children and adolescents: The ABCD experience. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Aug;32:143-154, PMID: 28716389; PMCID: PMC5745294; NIHMS893252; DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.06.005 

Fisher, C.B., Fried, A. L., Desmond, M., Macapagal, K., & Mustanski, B. (2018). Perceived barriers to HIV prevention services for transgender youth. LGBT Health. Aug/Sep;5(6):350-358. PMCID: PMC6139078 . NIHMSID: NIHMS953073. PMID: 29546468. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2017.0098. 

Fisher, C. B. & Layman, D. M. (2018). Genomics, big data, and broad consent: A new ethics frontier for prevention science. Prevention Science, 19(7), 871-879, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-018-0944-z. PMID: 30145751 PMCID: PMC6182378. Also included in Phillips, K. A., Yamamoto, D, P., & Racz, L. (eds.). Total exposure health: An introduction. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429263286

Fisher, C.B., Puri, L. I.  Macapagal, K., & Mustanski, B. (2018) “Free Testing and PrEP without Outing Myself to Parents:” Motivation to Participate in Oral and Injectable PrEP Clinical Trials among Adolescent Men who have Sex with Men. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0200560. PMID: 3004845 PMCID: PMC6059443. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200560

Fisher, C. B., Fried, A. L., Puri, L. I., Macapagal, K. & Mustanski, B. (2018). Patient-provider communication barriers and facilitators to HIV and STI preventive services for adolescent MSM. Aids & Behavior, 22, 3417-3428. PMID: 29546468. doi: 10.1007/s10461-018-2081-x

Fletcher, F. E., Fisher, C. B., Buchberg, M.K., Floyd, B., Hotton, A., Ejioba, A.,& Donenberg, G. R. (2018). “Where Did This [PrEP] Come From?” African American Mother/Daughter Attitudes Towards Adolescent Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Utilization and Clinical Trial Participation. Journal of Empirical Research on Research Ethics, 13(2), 173-184.  PMID: 29781706 DOI: 10.1177/1556264618755919

Macapagal, K., Moskowitz, D., Li, D. H., Carrion, A., Bettin, E., Fisher, C. B. & Mustanski, B. (2018). Hookup app use, sexual behavior, and sexual health among adolescent men who have sex with men in the United States. Journal Adolescent Health, 62, 708-715.  MCID: PMC5967650 NIHMSID: NIHMS934912 PMID: 29784114. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.01.001 

Mustanski, B., Macapagal, K., Thomann, M., Feinstein, B. A., Newcomb, M. E., Motley, D.  & Fisher, C. B. (2018). Parents' Perspectives about Adolescent Boys' Involvement in Biomedical HIV Prevention Research. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46, 1 – 13. PubMed: 28875351. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-017-1035-0.

Nelson, K. M., Carey, M.P. & Fisher, C. B. (2018). Is guardian permission a barrier to online sexual health research among adolescent males interested in sex with males. The Journal of Sex Research. PMID: 29952665. PMCID: PMC6310663. doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1481920.

Overstreet, N., Okuyan, M., & Fisher, C. B, (2018).  Perceived Risks and Benefits in Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Research: Listening to the Voices of HIV-Positive African American Women. Journal of Empirical Research on Research Ethics. 13, 511-524. PMCID: PMC6231959 PMID: 30183457. NIHMSID: NIHMS1503425. doi: 10.1177/1556264618797557

Tamir, H., Krupp, K., Stephens, D. P., Zohourian, T., Dorcius, P. M., Arun A., Fisher, C. B., & Madhivanan, P. (2018).  Addressing Prevention among HIV-Negative Women in PMTCT Programs in South India. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 29, 45-52. PMID: 29174348. PMCID: PMC5742296. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2017.10.006.

Fisher, Celia (2023). "Disclosure and Reporting Challenges in Aggression Research Involving Children and Adolescents." NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

Fisher, Celia (2022). "Paying for Participating in Social-Behavioral Studies: Practical and Ethical Considerations." OHRP Exploratory Workshop 2022: Beyond altruism - Exploring payment for research participation.

Fisher, Celia B. (2022). "COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy Among Parents of Young Children." The New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Fisher, Celia B. (2019). "Informed Consent for Suicide Prevention Trials." PRIMR 2019 Advancing Ethical Research Conference, Boston Massachusetts.

Fisher, Celia B. (2018). "Psychology and Ethics: Strengthening Diverse Relationships Across Psychology." American Psychological Association Division 53: Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Webinar.

Fisher, Celia B. (2018). “Free Testing and PrEP Without Outing Myself to Parents: Barriers and Facilitators for Oral and Injectable PrEP Clinical Trial Participation Among AMSM.” International AIDS Conference.

Fisher, Celia B. (2017). “Experiences Seeking Health Care Among Transgender Adults and Youth.” Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Fisher, Celia B. (2017). "Goodness-of-Fit Ethics: Theory and Methods for Enhancing the Responsible Conduct of HIV and Drug Abuse Research." Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute.

Fisher, Celia B. (2017). “Human Rights and Involvement of Mental Health Practitioners in Death Penalty Cases.” Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.

Fisher, Celia B. (2017). “Rethinking Individual and Group Harms in the Age of Genomics and Big Data.” Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai IRB Retreat.

Fisher, Celia B. (2016). “Ethics & Social Justice in Health Research Involving Vulnerable Adolescents.” OHRP CITI Research Community Forum.

Fisher, Celia B. (2016). “Moral Stress Among Frontline Workers Conducting Community-Based Drug Use Research.” Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute.

Fisher, Celia B. (2015). “Doing Good Well: The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Psychology.” Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Fisher, Celia B. (2015). “Ethics & Social Justice in Research Involving Vulnerable Populations.” Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center.

• American Psychological Association’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Ethics Education (2017)
• Health Improvement Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection, 2011
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012
• Presidential Citation, American Psychological Association, 2003
• Marie Ward Doty Chair and Professor of Psychology, Fordham University, 2003
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Graduate Faculty, New School University, 2004
• Fellow, Society for the Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Division 45, American Psychological Association, 2006

Current Research

• Ethics in HIV Prevention Research Involving LGBT Youth (Co-PI; NIMHD R01MD009561)
• Increasing AIAN Research Engagement through A Culturally Adapted Ethics Training (Co-PI; NICHD 1R01HD082181)
• Fordham HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (PI; NIDA 1R25DA031608)

Completed Research (selected)

• Ethical Challenges for Research Extenders Responsible for the Integrity of Community Addiction Research (PI; NCRR 1R21RR026302)
• Participant Perspectives on HIV/Drug Research Ethics (Co-PI; NDA 1 RO1 DA015649-01A2)
• Fordham Resident Alcohol Prevention Program (PI; NIAAA 1U18 AA025912)
• Fordham Athlete Alcohol Prevention Initiative (PI; DOE)
• Mentoring the Responsible Conduct of Research (PI; NINDS 1 R01 NS 052877)
• Assessment and Enhancement of Research Consent Capacity for Adults with Mental Retardation (PI; NICHD HD 39332-02)

Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute

Primary Investigator: Celia B. Fisher (Fordham University). Supported by NIDA Grant# 1R25DA031608-01.

Now in its eighth year, the Fordham HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is a training grant sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (#1R25DA031608-01, Principal Investigator, Celia B. Fisher, Director Center for Ethics Education). The RETI provides early career investigators in the social, behavioral, medical and public health fields with an opportunity to gain research ethics training. A major function of the RETI is also to conduct institute-funded research on ethical issues in HIV and drug use research. In doing so, RETI addresses the urgent need for HIV investigators who can identify and address ethical issues, engage drug-using and other at-risk communities in the construction and evaluation of population-sensitive research protections, and generate empirical data to inform ethical practice and policies for HIV prevention science. Through their funded Mentored Research Project (MRP), RETI fellows generate empirical data, publish their findings in a variety of high-impact academic journals, and are trained to apply for increasing grant opportunities.

Human Development and Social Justice 

The Human Development and Social Justice (HD&SJ) Lab is led by Dr. Celia B. Fisher, Professor in the Fordham University Applied Developmental Psychology program and Director of both the Center for Ethics Education and the NIDA funded HIV/Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Institute.

In the HD&SJ lab, our research is at the intersection of developmental science and social justice. We apply developmental theory and research methods, as well as contemporary research ethics frameworks, to examine the experiences that promote equity and wellbeing among under-researched populations. Our current projects focus on issues of stigma, identity, health disparities and the role of personal and systemic experiences in daily life. We explore these experiences within underserved adolescent groups: ethnic minorities, LGBT and individuals with a history of mental health and substance-use conditions. We are committed to conducting and promoting research that enhances the responsible conduct of research by looking at issues such as informed consent, motivations and implications of research participation and facilitators and barriers to health care services

Current Blog Posts

• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher on Mental Health and Racial Justice in the Time of COVID-19 - November 17, 2020
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher on Informed Consent for Suicide Prevention Trials - November 19, 2019
• Dr. Fisher Presents with RETI Fellows at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities - June 18, 2019
• Dr. Celia B. Fisher Gives Keynote Address at GSAS Diploma Ceremony - June 6, 2019
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher on Patient-Provider Communications with Gay Teens - April 25, 2018
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher Weighs in on Researchers Using Real Guns in Study with Children in Mic - October 24, 2017
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher Discusses Transgender Healthcare on WFUV - October 11, 2017
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher Discusses Ethical Concerns and Group Harms in ‘Big Data’ Research with Marginalized Populations - September 18, 2017
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher on Reversal of the Goldwater Rule - July 27, 2017
• Fordham University’s Dr. Celia B. Fisher on Bystander Apathy - January 13, 201

Television

• MSNBC (2014, October 18). Discrimination 'mounting' on West African Immigrants [video file]. Melissa Harris-Perry.
• ABC7 (2015, April 30). Fordham's Celia Fisher on ABC-NY on the Ethics of the Sofia Vergara Embryo Suit [video file]. Eyewitness News, New York.
• Al Jazeera America (2013,November 4). Collect it all: America’s surveillance state [video file]. Faultline.
• Fox News (2005, June 9). Gene imaging: miracle or menace? Your World with Neil Cavuto.

Print and Web

• Svenska Dagbladet. (2016, January 15). Social Justice and hyper-masculinity.
• The Washington Post (2015, November 23). Charlie Sheen put a spotlight on HIV and sex workers. But here’s what’s missing from the conversation.
• Ampersand (2015,October 29). Unpacking the NPRM: expanding exemptions.
• Ethics & Society (2015, October 19). NIH’s new definition of ‘children’ finally gets it right: a welcome change for children’s health equity (written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher.).
• Huffington Post (2015, October 16). Federal Government Report Calls for End to Conversion Therapy.
• The Huffington Post (2015,October 16). Stop Conversion Therapy – It’s Based on Pseudo-Science.
• The Advocate (2015, October 15). Feds: ‘Harmful’ Conversion Therapy Must Be Stopped.
• Ethics & Society (2015, September 3). Minimal risk and minimal experience: can researchers competently navigate OHRP’s new risk categories? (written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher).
• Ethics & Society (2015, June 15). When are researchers accomplices to a crime? Navigating moral boundaries(written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher).
• Associated Foreign Press (2015, May 5). TV star Vergara speaks out over embryo custody battle.
• Clinical Leader (2015, March 13). Paying Clinical Trial Participants: Best or Worst Practice?
• Psych Central (2014, December 1). Ethical Parenting: Parent-Child Conflict.
• Ampersand (2014, August 19). Discovering research ethics scales and measures (written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher & Dr. Elizabeth Yuko).
• SciDevNet (2014,February 18). View on Disability: Trials Exclude Vulnerable People.
• Ethics & Society (2013, August 19). Advance directives for research involving adults with advancing dementia (written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher).
• Vox.com (2013, August 13). Was it ethical for missionaries to be treated for Ebola before the Liberians they were serving?
• The Jewish Channel (2013, April 24). Investigation Reveals Additional Questionable Identity with Connections to Broyde’s Scholarship.
• The Root (2013, September 18). Can a Racist Grandpa Raise a Biracial Kid?
• Ethics & Society (2013, May 17). Are psychologists violating their Ethics Code by conducting death penalty evaluations for defendants with mental disabilities? (written by Dr. Celia B. Fisher).
• The New York Post (2012, December 2). Experts split on getting involved.
• Pittsburgh Tribune Review (2011, October 12). Gateway superintendent’s e-mail scrutinized.
• AHC Media (2011, July 1). Ethics mentoring – lead by policy & example.
• The Carnegie Council (2007, December 17). Interview with Celia B. Fisher, Director, Center for Ethics Education.
• gradPSYCH (2007, September). Balancing risk and research.
• The Associated Press (2007, July 22). School conducts anti-phishing research.
• Science Magazine (2006, May 12). A cure for the common trial.
• Fox News (2006, March 24). Extreme health care? Reality TV show features cutting edge medicine.
• New York Daily News (2005, September 20). Gender test gives mom the news at 5 weeks.
• Health Day (2005, August 5). Dog cloning could lead to insights into human disease.
• New York Daily News (2005, July 22). Shari’s kin renew plea for liver.
• Web Pro News(2005, June 25). FDA approves heart failure drug for black patients.
• Health Day (2005, June 24). Heart drug approved for Blacks raises race issue.
• USA Today (2003, May 5). Teen alcohol study coming under fire from ethicists.
• AHC Media (2003, February 1). Experts say Clonaid isn’t likely to have cloned baby.
• Philippine Daily Inquirer (2003, January 4). Creating humanoids by cloning unethical and deplorable.
• The New York Times (2002, June 30). NJ &CO.; Making a Match.
• New York Daily News (2001, August 8). Doc vows he’ll clone 200 soon.
• Christian Science Monitor (2001, August 6). In codes of privacy, new cracks.
• Philadelphia Inquirer (1999, August 16). Keeping therapists and patients apart, American Psychological Association may tighten rules on sexual involvement.