Faculty Bios
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Fernando A. Wagner,
Sc.D., M.P.H., is affiliated with the Drug Abuse Research Program/Center
for Health Disparities Solutions (Deputy Director) and the School
of Public Health and Policy (Associate Professor), Morgan State
University; and with the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health (Adjunct Faculty). Dr. Wagner
is interested in the development of methods, knowledge, and community-participatory
interventions promoting public mental health, particularly in drug
dependence and depression in late life. Dr. Wagner has more than
twenty-five years of experience in the public mental health field,
with extensive research-action work with community and grass roots
organizations. Examples of his current research include the study
of mechanisms that help understand drug involvement, from opportunities
to first use to dependence and other problems. Dr. Wagner is also
a co-PI for the longitudinal study of 5,000 Mexican older adults
examining the occurrence, natural history, risk and protective factors,
as well as a potential intervention in family health care clinics
for major depression. Dr. Wagner is first author of several papers
in prestigious scientific journals such as the American Journal
of Public Health, Neuropsychopharmacology, and the American
Journal of Epidemiology, and a coauthor in many others. Dr.
Wagner has received important awards, such as the 1992 93 Hubert
H. Humphrey Fellowship, the Morton Kramer Award (Johns Hopkins University,
1998), the WHO/CPDD/NIDA International Award (2002), recognition
as a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (2001-2004),
and a recent grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to
study opportunities and actual drug use in the US and in Baltimore.
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