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Peter
Nygaard, Ph.D.
Research Scientist |
Drinking
Careers: The Role of Social Networks
Peter
Nygaard received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University
of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1999. He has worked as a researcher
in the alcohol field since 1988. His first employment was
with the Institute of Psychology at the University of Aarhus,
Denmark, and he continued his career at the Centre for Alcohol
and Drug Research at the University of Aarhus from 1991 –
1998. In January 2000 he joined the Prevention Research Center,
Berkeley, CA as an Associate Research Scientist and was promoted
to Research Scientist in November 2001. Dr. Nygaard attended
the post-doctoral training in alcohol research at the School
of Public Health at UC Berkeley from 2000-2002. During this
period his research focused on new methods in screening and
brief interventions.
Dr. Nygaard
has extensive research experience in the alcohol field, primarily
focusing on issues related to the prevention of alcohol-related
problems. He has been engaged in community action research
as well as projects focusing on prevention at the individual
level. His special research interest is in intervention in
social networks, and his future research will focus on approaches
to intervene in these networks within the field of secondary
prevention. Dr. Nygaard has a long publication list, mainly
in Danish, but he has also been involved in international
cooperation on publications focusing on community action research.
He has presented at numerous national and international conferences.
Dr.
Nygaard recently obtained funding from NIAAA for the project
“Drinking Careers: The Role of Social Networks”.
This project is a qualitative study of the influence of social
networks on changes in drinking patterns over time. Furthermore,
he is working on Dr. Robert Saltz’s Safer California
Universities Study. In addition, Dr. Nygaard has developed
a training program for qualitative interviewers.
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