Global Health
Dr. Griffin has worked with universities, community-based organizations, and health promotion organizations both in the U.S. and internationally in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs to prevent health and behavior problems among young people. These include school, community, and workplace interventions to prevent substance abuse and HIV risk behavior among adolescents and young adults in the US and Western Europe; mass media campaigns to promote safe migration and combat human trafficking in Eastern Europe; and skills-based health education programs to promote healthy behavior and psychosocial resilience among girls in the Dominican Republic and immigrant Dominican girls in New York City. Dr. Griffin has also participated in scientific conferences and staff trainings in prevention methods in Eastern and Western Europe and Southeast Asia. Dr. Griffin is currently collaborating with researchers at Miguel Hernàndez University in Elche, Spain on a study examining driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs among first year university students at commuter campuses in Spain and the US. He was a Visiting Professor at Miguel Hernàndez University in 2009.
