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 received a Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2010. The award provided funding for Dr. Griffin to continue an ongoing collaboration with prevention researchers in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ultimate goal of the research collaboration is to identify, adapt, test, and disseminate evidence-based prevention programs to address the problems of substance abuse and HIV risk behaviors among Russian adolescents and young adults. In a separate international collaboration, Dr. Griffin has twice served as as a Visiting Lecturer at Miguel Hernàndez University in southeast Spain. He is continuing an ongoing project with Spanish researchers examining factors contributing to driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs among first year university students at commuter campuses in Spain and the USA.
