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Alexander C. Wagenaar

Alexander C. Wagenaar

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
73
Citations
17092
World Ranking
644
National Ranking
309

Overview

Alexander C. Wagenaar is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a specific focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and broader Health topics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Among Alexander C. Wagenaar's recent publications are:

  • "The "Legal Epidemiology" of Pandemic Control" (2021), published in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a school, family, and community intervention for preventing drug misuse among older adolescents in the Cherokee Nation" (2022), published in Trials
  • "Conceptual Confusion Leads Policy Evaluation Astray" (2024), published in JAMA Health Forum
  • "Law Everywhere: A Causal Framework for Law and Infectious Disease" (2020), published in Public Health Reports
  • "Theory, Measurement, and Psychometric Properties of Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Misuse Among Adolescents Living on or near the Cherokee Nation Reservation" (2023), published in Adversity and Resilience Science

The venues where Wagenaar frequently publishes include:

  • Adversity and Resilience Science
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Trials
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Public Health Reports

Frequent co-authors in Wheeler's research are:

  • Kelli A. Komro
  • Melvin D. Livingston
  • Terrence K. Kominsky
  • Bethany J. Livingston
  • Caroline M. Barry

The scope of Wagenaar's research reflects an interdisciplinary approach that integrates epidemiology, public health policy, and behavioral health. This includes examining substance use and its prevention, the effects of prenatal substance exposure, and the implementation and evaluation of health policies related to drug misuse and infectious disease control. The work also addresses methodological issues in policy evaluation and causal frameworks for understanding legal influences on public health.

Best Publications

  • Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Matthew J. Salois;Kelli A. Komro

  • Effects of minimum drinking age laws: review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000.

    Alexander C Wagenaar;Traci L Toomey

  • Effects of Alcohol Tax and Price Policies on Morbidity and Mortality: A Systematic Review

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Amy L. Tobler;Kelli A. Komro

  • Project Northland: outcomes of a communitywide alcohol use prevention program during early adolescence

    Cheryl L. Perry;Carolyn L. Williams;Sara Veblen-Mortenson;Traci L. Toomey

  • The Value of Interrupted Time-Series Experiments for Community Intervention Research

    Anthony Biglan;Dennis Ary;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Effects of minimum drinking age laws on alcohol use, related behaviors and traffic crash involvement among American youth: 1976-1987

    P. M. O'malley;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco.

    Jean L. Forster;David M. Murray;Mark Wolfson;Therese M. Blaine

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol: outcomes from a randomized community trial.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;John P. Gehan;Mark Wolfson

  • Developing public health regulations for marijuana: lessons from alcohol and tobacco.

    Rosalie Liccardo Pacula;Beau Kilmer;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Frank J. Chaloupka

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol (CMCA): effects of a randomized trial on arrests and traffic crashes.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;Traci L. Toomey

  • Effects of state medical marijuana laws on adolescent marijuana use.

    Sarah D. Lynne-Landsman;Melvin D. Livingston;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research.

    Scott Burris;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Jennifer K. Ibrahim

  • Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets

    Henry Wechsler;Jae Eun Lee;John Hall;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Sources of alcohol for underage drinkers

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Traci L Toomey;David M. Murray;Brian J. Short

  • Mandated server training and reduced alcohol-involved traffic crashes: a time series analysis of the Oregon experience.

    Harold D. Holder;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Community Strategies for the Reduction of Youth Drinking: Theory and Application

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Cheryl L. Perry

  • Environmental policies to reduce college drinking: options and research findings.

    Traci L Toomey;Alexander C Wagenaar

  • Environmental Policies to Reduce College Drinking: An Update of Research Findings*

    Traci L. Toomey;Kathleen M. Lenk;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Commercial availability of alcohol to young people: results of alcohol purchase attempts

    J. L. Forster;D. M. Murray;Mark Wolfson;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Background, conceptualization and design of a community-wide research program on adolescent alcohol use: Project Northland

    Cheryl L. Perry;Carolyn L. Williams;Jean L. Forster;Mark Wolfson

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;John P. Gehan;Mark Wolfson

  • The injury fact book

    Alexander C Wagenaar;Daniel W Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Traci L. Toomey
Traci L. Toomey University of Minnesota
Kelli A. Komro
Kelli A. Komro Emory University
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Darin J. Erickson
Darin J. Erickson University of Minnesota
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute
Sara Markowitz
Sara Markowitz Emory University
Patrick M. O'Malley
Patrick M. O'Malley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carolyn L. Williams
Carolyn L. Williams University of Minnesota
Anthony Biglan
Anthony Biglan Oregon Research Institute
Jeffrey W. Swanson
Jeffrey W. Swanson Duke University

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