Alexander C. Wagenaar, PhD

University of Florida
College of Medicine, Dept of Health Outcomes and Policy
1329 SW 16th Street, room 5130
P. O. Box 100177
Gainesville, FL
USA 32608

Biographical Sketch: Alexander C. Wagenaar, PhD Dr. Wagenaar is Professor of Health Outcomes & Policy at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He has published a book, numerous book chapters, and over 170 scientific articles on social epidemiology, public health policy, legal evaluations, community intervention trials, alcohol and tobacco studies, violence prevention, traffic safety, and injury control. He has a strong interest in evaluation of public policy changes and community-level interventions, using both randomized trial and controlled time-series research designs and statistical methods. He currently also serves as Associate Director of the Public Health Law Research Program at Temple University, the national program office for a new $17 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is 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. In 1999, Dr. Wagenaar received the prestigious Jellinek award for lifetime achievement in community intervention and policy evaluation research on alcohol. In 2001 he 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. In 2009 he received the Prevention Scientist Award from the Society for Prevention Research for the contributions of his three decades of research in advancing the methods and outcomes of prevention research.

Papers:
3150.0 Opening the black box: Role of theory on legal mechanisms of effect 3150.0 Advancing the state of research designs used in injury control policy evaluation