David A. Stupplebeen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees
- PhD (Public Health), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- MPH (Community Health Education), San Francisco State University
- BA (Political Science), San Francisco State University
Courses Taught
David is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2007, after earning at bachelor degree in political science from San Francisco State University, David started working at the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center on both HIV-related social marketing campaigns targeting the Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities across the country and six US Pacific Island Jurisdictions. David again went to San Francisco State to earn a Master of Public Health and worked on research studies related to the LGBT community plus a health needs assessment focusing on youth living in San Francisco’s public housing projects. In 2015, he attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he earned a PhD in Public Health and worked for the Healthy Hawaiʻi Evaluation Team as an evaluation specialist and at the Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center as an epidemiologist. Prior to joining the Office of Public Health Studies, David worked at the California Department of Public Health California Tobacco Prevention Program as an evaluator for the branch’s CDC-funded work, and led an initiative to identify health equity measures related to tobacco use, including measures of discrimination and structural racism.
Awards & Honors
- Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Inductee
- Pauline Stitt Scholarship, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Distinguished Achievement Award for Academic Excellence, College of Health & Social Sciences, San Francisco State University
- John Blake West Scholarship, San Francisco State University
- Fellow: Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research (MTPCCR), University of California, San Francisco
Research Interests
David's current research interests include multiracial and LGBTQ+ social and behavioral health disparities, the effect of racism and discrimination on health, and health policymaking.
Selected Publications
Donaldson, C. D., Stupplebeen, D. A., Couch, E. T., Rojas, A., Farooq, O., Zhang, X., Gansky, S. A., & Chaffee, B. W. (2024). Perceived Discrimination and Youth Vaping: The Role of Intersectional Identities. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Available online, 26 April, 2024, 111313. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111313.
Talana, A. L. E., Quensell, M. L., Peltzer, N. K., Thompson, M. D., Stupplebeen, D. A., Pirkle, C., Keliikoa, B. (2024). Examining mental health and economic consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic among Filipino residents in Hawaiʻi: May-October 2020. Hawai‘i Journal of Health & Social Welfare, 83(1), 16-24.
Donaldson, C. D., Stupplebeen, D. A., Wilkinson, M. L., Zhang, X., & Williams, R. J. (2022). Intersectional Disparities in Youth Tobacco Use by Sexual and/or Gender Minority Status and Race/Ethnicity. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 25(5), 898-907. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac264. PMID: 36394368.
Donaldson, C. D., Stupplebeen, D. A., Fecho, C. L., Ta, T., Zhang, X., & Williams, R. J. (2022). Nicotine vaping for relaxation and coping: Race/ethnicity differences and social connectedness mechanisms. Addictive Behaviors, 132, 107365. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107365. PMID: 35605411
Stupplebeen, D. A, Pirkle, C., Domingo, J.-L., Nett, B., Sentell, T., & Brooke Keliikoa, L. (2020). Adaptions to the National Diabetes Prevention Programme lifestyle change curriculum by Hawai‘i Federally Qualified Health Centers: a qualitative descriptive study. BMJ Open, 10(11), e037577.
Stupplebeen, D. A., Pirkle, C. M., Sentell, T. L., Nett, B., Ilagan, L. S. K., Juan, B., Medieros, J., & Keliikoa, L. B. (2020). Self-measured blood pressure monitoring: Program planning, implementation, and lessons learned from 5 Federally-Qualified Health Centers in Hawai‘i. Preventing Chronic Disease, 17(E47). doi:10.5888/pcd17.190348. PMCID: PMC7316413. PMID: 32584755.
Stupplebeen, D. A., Eliason, M. J., LeBlanc, A. J. & Sanchez-Vaznaugh, E. V. (2019). Differential influence of weight status on chronic diseases by sexual orientation in men. LGBT Health, 6(3), 126-133. doi:10.1089/lgbt.2018.0167. PMCID: PMC6477578. PMID: 30916609.
Stupplebeen, D. A. (2019). Housing and food insecurity and chronic disease among three racial groups in Hawai’i. Preventing Chronic Disease, 16, E13. doi:10.5888/pcd16.180311. PMCID: PMC6362708. PMID: 30702998.
Stupplebeen, D. A., Sentell, T. L., Pirkle, C. M., Juan, B., Barnett-Sherrill, A. T., Humphry, J. W., Yoshimura, S. R., Kiernan, J., Hartz, C. P., & Keliʻikoa, L. B. (2019). Community health workers in action: Community-clinical linkages for diabetes prevention and hypertension management at 3 community health centers. Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 78(6, Suppl. 1), 15-22. PMCID: PMC6603891. PMID: 31285963.
Pirkle, C. M., Vu, N. D., Ilagan, L. S. K., Cacal, S. L., Stupplebeen, D. A., & Nett, B. (2019). Greater community-clinical linkages and attention to patient life-stage: Recommendations to improve Diabetes Self-Management Education in Hawaiʻi. Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 78(6, Suppl. 1), 70-77. PMCID: PMC6603883. PMID: 31285974.
Cacal, S. L., Spock, N., Quensell, M. L., Sentell, T. L., & Stupplebeen, D. A. (2019). Legislative definitions of community health workers: Examples from other states to inform Hawaiʻi. Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 78(6, Suppl. 1), 23-29. PMCID: PMC6603892. PMID: 31285964.
Stupplebeen, D. A., Barnett-Sherrill, A. T., & Sentell, T. (2019). Community health workers in Hawaiʻi: A scoping review and framework analysis of existing evidence. Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 78(6, Suppl. 1), 6-14. PMCID: PMC6603885. PMID: 31285962.
Keliʻikoa, L. B., Packard, M. Y., Hansen Smith, H., Kim, I. N., Akasaki, K. A., & Stupplebeen, D. A. (2018). Evaluation of a community wayfinding signage project in Hawai‘i: Perspectives of pedestrians and bicyclists. Journal of Transport & Health, 11, 25–33.
Stupplebeen, D. A. (2018). People who inject drugs and the HIV crisis in Pence’s Indiana: A media analysis using two policymaking frameworks. International Journal of Drug Policy, 57, 79-85. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.04.007. PMID: 29705590.
Eliason, M. J., Sanchez-Vaznaugh, E. V., & Stupplebeen, D. (2017). Relationships between sexual orientation, weight, and health in a population-based sample of California women. Women’s Health Issues, 27(5), 600-606. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2017.04.004. PMID: 28551076.