Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D.

Alex Wagenaar is a professor of epidemiology and health policy research at the University of Florida College of Medicine.  He has published a book, numerous book chapters, and over 160 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. In 1999, 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 his contributions in research to advance the methods and outcomes of prevention research.