Alfgeir Kristjansson, PhD

Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Classification:

Faculty

Principal Investigator
Co-Director

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

WV Prevention Research Center

Section:

Leadership

Classification:

Faculty

Dr. Kristjansson is a Professor of Public Health at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Public Health, Center PI and Co-Director for the West Virginia Prevention Research Center (WVPRC), and adjunct faculty at Reykjavik University in Iceland. He earned his PhD in Social Medicine from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in 2010 and was a post-doctoral fellow in Health Behavior at Columbia University in New York City between 2010-2012. Dr. Kristjansson has published widely on substance use prevention and the Icelandic Prevention Model, as well as more generally on adolescent behavioral development and the well-being of children, youth and families. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) of several US-based federally funded studies, including the Young Mountaineer Health Study in WV funded by NIAAA, and the Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via the WVPRC. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts in scholarly journals within public health, health education, preventive medicine and multidisciplinary journals focused on adolescents.