Biography
Dr. Kenneth Griffin is a Professor of Public Health in the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior in the Department of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. His research interests focus on the etiology and prevention of substance use and HIV risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults. Dr. Griffin's etiology work has focused on how social, cognitive, affective, and behavioral self-regulation strategies act as protective factors for risky behavior among youth. His prevention work has focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of preventive intervention programs for youth, mediating mechanisms and generalizability of intervention effects to related risk behaviors, and issues related to disseminating evidence-based prevention programs internationally. His current research is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Dr. Griffin has worked with universities, community-based organizations, and health promotion organizations both domestically and internationally in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs to prevent health and behavior problems among young people. Dr. Griffin earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a M.P.H. in epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Prior to joining Cornell in 1997 as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Griffin was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Psychiatry and the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies where he studied HIV prevention and mental health issues. Dr. Griffin received the Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to prevention science in 2002 from the Society for Prevention Research. In 2010, he received a Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
