Wagenaar, Alexander C.
Profile Information
- Full Titles
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
- Title
- Professor
- Phone
- 352.265.0111 x85683
- Email Address
- wagenaar@ufl.edu
- Fax
- 352.265.8047
- Address
1329 SW 16th Street, Room 5130
PO Box 100177
Gainesville, FL 32610-0177- Education
Ph.D. in Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
M.S.W. in Program Evaluation and Research, University of Michigan
B.A. in Sociology (Honors Program), Calvin College- Professional Bio
Dr. Wagenaar is a social epidemiologist with expertise in evaluation of public policy changes and community-level interventions, using both randomized trial and time-series research designs and statistical methods. He is currently principal investigator on three major research projects, serves as a scientific reviewer for two dozen journals, is a member of the Editorial Board of Prevention Science and the Journal of Safety Research, and is an Assistant Editor of the journal Addiction. He has served on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association and the Board of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research, and currently serves on the Science Advisory Board for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Dr. Wagenaar has published a book, numerous book chapters, and over 160 papers on social epidemiology, health policy, community intervention trials, alcohol studies, violence prevention, traffic safety, and injury control. In 1999 he received the prestigious Jellinek award for lifetime achievement in community intervention and policy evaluation research on alcohol; in 2001 received the Innovator's Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and in 2004 was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher, an honor limited to less than one-half of one percent of published scientists worldwide.
- Expertise
Social & Community Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Policy Evaluation, Community Intervention Trials, Alcohol, Violence Prevention, Traffic Safety, Injury Control
