Allen LeBlanc, PhD

Biography

Dr. Allen J. LeBlanc is Health Equity Institute (HEI) Professor of Sociology at SFSU. His work on societal and individual responses to chronic illness and disability; the social etiology of stress and health; and government programs relating to disability and health care for low-income Americans has been widely published. His current interests include the study of social stress, psychosocial resources, and health among sexual minority persons, as well as the evaluation of curricular innovations designed to help incoming college students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed. LeBlanc earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He later held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining the faculty at SF State, he was Senior Research Associate at MDRC, one of the nation's leading social policy research organizations.

Link to Department of Sociology faculty: https://sociology.sfsu.edu/faculty/leblanc/

Research Interests

• Social Etiology of Stress and Health
• Management of Chronic Illness and Disability
• Health and Disability Policy
• Program Evaluation
• Survey Development

Current Research

Metro Academies Dissemination

Stress, Closeness Discrepancies & Relational Well-Being among Couples

Recently Completed Work

Metropolitan Health Academy

Evaluation of Metro Academy-Early Childhood Education Pilot

Select Publications

Richard G. Wight, Allen J. LeBlanc, Brian de Vries, and Roger Detels (2012). Stress and Mental Health Among Midlife and Older Gay-Identified Men. American Journal of Public Health. e-View Ahead of Print. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300384. http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/health-and-hiv-aids/stress-and-mental-health-among-midlife-and-older-gay-identified-men/

Kim, Sue, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter. (2011). "Working toward Wellness: Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment." MDRC, December 2011, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/612/overview.html 

Kim, Sue E., Allen J. LeBlanc, Charles Michalopoulos, Francisca Azocar, Evette J. Ludman, David M. Butler, and Greg E. Simon. (2011). "Does Telephone Care Management Help Medicaid Beneficiaries with Depression?" American Journal of Managed Care 17:e375-e382. Web Annoucement (under Web Exclusive)

LeBlanc, Allen J. (2011). "Aging with HIV/AIDS." Pp. 495-512 in Handbook of Sociology of Aging, Settersten, Jr., Richard A. and Jacqueline L. Angel, Eds., New York: Springer.

Kim, Sue, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter. (2010. "Working toward Wellness: Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Eighteen Months After Random Assignment." MDRC, November 2010, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/577/overview.html. 

Kim, Sue, Allen LeBlanc, and Charles Michalopoulos. (2009). "Working toward Wellness: Early Results from a Telephone Care Management Program for Medicaid Recipients with Depression." MDRC, August 2009, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/530/overview.html.

Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn, Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Lisa Barrow. (2009). "Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents." MDRC, January 2009, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/507/overview.html.

Scrivener, Susan, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo. (2008). "A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshman Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College." MDRC, March 2008, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/473/overview.html.

Wight, Richard G., Carol S. Aneshensel, Allen J. LeBlanc, and Kristin P. Beals. (2008). "Sharing an Uncertain Future: Improved Survival and Stress Proliferation among Persons Living with HIV and Their Caregivers." Pp. 369-397 in Life Course Research: Stress Processes across the Life Course, Turner, Heather and Scott Schieman, Eds., London: Elsevier (JAI).

LeBlanc, Allen J., Cynthia Miller, Karin Martinson and Gilda Azurdia. (2007). "The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: Results from Minnesota's Tier 2 Program." MDRC, February 2007, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/457/overview.html.

Muraco, Anna, Allen J. LeBlanc, and Stephen T. Russell. (2007). "Conceptualizations of Family by Older Gay Men." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 20(1/2):69-90.

Brock, Thomas and Allen J. LeBlanc (with Casey MacGregor). (2005). "Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond: The Opening Doors Demonstration." MDRC, May 2005, http://www.mdrc.org/publications/409/overview.html.

Butler, David, Allen LeBlanc, John Martinez, Karin Martinson, and Jacquelyn Anderson. (2004). "Recommendations for the National Evaluation of the Youth Process Demonstration (YTPD)." Report to the Disability Research Institute (DRI), University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. For: Social Security Administration, Disability and Income Programs, Office of Program Development and Research. http://www.dri.uiuc.edu/research/p04-10h/p04_10Final%20YTDP%20Report%20w%20attach.doc

LeBlanc, Allen J., Anne K. Driscoll, and Leonard I. Pearlin. (2004). "Religiosity and the Expansion of Caregiver Stress." Aging & Mental Health 8(5):410-421.

Wight, Richard G., Carol S. Aneshensel, and Allen J. LeBlanc. (2003). "Stress Buffering Effects of Familial Support in AIDS Caregiving." AIDS Care 15(5):595-613.

Harrington, Charlene, Allen J. LeBlanc, and Alice Wong. (2002). "State Financing Programs for Long-Term Care Facilities." Journal of Housing for the Elderly 16(1/2):51-59.

Harrington, Charlene, Allen J. LeBlanc, Juanita Wood, Norma F. Satten, and M. Christine Tonner. (2002). "Met and Unmet Need for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services in the States." Journal of Applied Gerontology 21(4):484-510.

White, Kenneth R., Susan D. Roggenkamp, and Allen J. LeBlanc. (2002). "Urban U. S. Hospitals and the Mission to Provide HIV-related Services: Changes and Correlates." Journal of Healthcare Management 47(1):27-39.

LeBlanc, Allen J., M. Christine Tonner, and Charlene Harrington. (2001). "State Medicaid Programs Offering Personal Care Services." Health Care Financing Review 22(4):155-173.

Harrington, Charlene, Helen Carrillo, Valerie Wellin, Nancy Miller, and Allen J. LeBlanc. (2000). "Predicting State Medicaid Home and Community Based Waiver Participants and Expenditures, 1992-1997." The Gerontologist 40(6):673-686.

LeBlanc, Allen J., M. Christine Tonner, and Charlene Harrington. (2000). "Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Waivers Across the States." Health Care Financing Review 22(2):159-174.

LeBlanc, Allen J and Richard G. Wight. (2000). "Reciprocity and Depression in AIDS Caregiving Relationships." Sociological Perspectives Winter, 43(4): 631-649.

LeBlanc, Allen J. and Linda A. Wardlaw. (1999). "Health-related Worry among Informal AIDS Caregivers." Health 3(4):421-449.

LeBlanc, Allen J., Joseph T. Mullan, Linda A. Wardlaw, Charlene Harrington, and Sophia W. Chang. (1998). "Community-Based Service Use by People with AIDS: The Relevance of Informal Caregivers." Health 2(2):135-156.

London, Andrew S., Allen J. LeBlanc, and Carol S. Aneshensel. (1998). "Utilization of Case Management by Persons with HIV/AIDS." AIDS Care 10(4):481-503.

Wight, Richard G., Allen J. LeBlanc, and Carol S. Aneshensel. (1998). "AIDS Caregiving and Health among Midlife and Older Women." Health Psychology 17(2):130-137.

Pearlin, Leonard I., Carol S. Aneshensel, and Allen J. LeBlanc. (1997). "The Forms and Mechanisms of Stress Proliferation: The Case of AIDS Caregivers." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38:223-236.

LeBlanc, Allen J., Andrew S. London, and Carol S. Aneshensel. (1997). "The Physical Costs of AIDS Caregiving." Social Science and Medicine 45(6):915-923.

Wight, Richard G., Allen J. LeBlanc, and Carol S. Aneshensel. (1995). "Support Service Use by Persons with AIDS and their Caregivers." AIDS Care 7(4):509-520.

LeBlanc, Allen J., Carol S. Aneshensel, and Richard G. Wight. (1995). "Psychotherapy Use and Depression among AIDS Caregivers." Journal of Community Psychology 23:127-142.

LeBlanc, Allen J. and Robert E. Hurley. (1995). "Adoption of HIV-related Services among Urban U.S. Hospitals, 1988 and 1991." Medical Care 33(9):881-891.

LeBlanc, Allen J. (1993). "Examining HIV-related Knowledge among Adults in the U.S." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 34(1):23-36.

Classes taught

SOC 245 Social Problems

• Identification and analysis of contemporary social problems: the role of power and ideology in defining social problems, their causes and consequences, evaluation of proposed solutions, and methods of intervention.

SOC 476 Medical Sociology

• Sociology of health and illness; organization of medical care; therapeutic interaction; medico-social problems; innovation in health care.

SOC 486 Sociology of Mental Health

• Sociological approach to the study of mental health seeking to identify the social conditions that affect psychological well-being, and to describe the processes linking social conditions to psychological effects.