Education
Ph.D. in Medical Sociology, University of Miami
Background
After earning a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Miami, Dr. Gil became the Director of the South Florida Youth Development Project at the University of Miami.
In 1992, Dr. Gil joined the Western Consortium for Public Health at the University of California, Berkley where he was a research scientist. Later, he became an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Relations at the University of Connecticut.
He was recruited as an Assistant Professor of Social Work and also has served in numerous advisory and review committees to NIH institutes, including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute in Mental Health (NIMH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Dr. Gil has served as the Director of Research Development for the School of Social Work, and the former College of Health and Urban Affairs (CHUA). Currently he is the Associate Vice President for Research Development for FIU.
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Research
His interests are in the areas of adolescent substance abuse, including the epidemiology of sunbstance use and misuse, and the empirical evaluation of interventions, with emphasis on the role of the culture, race and ethnicity. Representative Recent Publications: Gil, A.G., & Tubman, J.T. (2005). HIV/AIDS and STDs (pp. 226-251). In C.N. Dulmus & L.A. Rapp-Paglicci (Eds.), Handbook of Preventive Interventions for Adults. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Burrow, A.L., Tubman, J.L. & Gil, A.G. (2007). Heterogeneity in patterns of risk behaviors among African-American youth: Associations with general and race specific factors. Journal of Community Psychology, 35, 447-462. Riveaux, S.L., Springer, D.W., Bohman, T., Wagner, E.F. & Gil, A.G. (2006). Differences among substance abusing Latino, Anglo and African American juvenile offenders in predictors of recidivism and treatment outcome. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 6, 5-29. Vega, W.A. & Gil, A.G. (2005). Revisiting drug progression: Long range effects of tobacco use. Addiction, 100, 1358-1369. Gil, AG. (2005). Drug abuse in the Latino population in the United States. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Suzanne Oboler & Deena J. Gonzalez (Eds), Oxford University Press. Gil, AG., Wagner, EF., Tubman, JG. (2004). Culturally sensitive substance abuse intervention for Hispanics and African-American adolescents: Empirical examples from the ATTAIN project. Addiction, 99, 140-150. Wagner, E.F., Tubman, J.G., & Gil, A.G. (2004). Implementing school-based substance abuse interventions: Methodological dilemmas and recommended solutions. Manuscript submitted for review. Addiction, 99, 106-119. Gil, AG., Wagner, E.F., & Tubman, J.G. (2004). Young adult consequences of early adolescent substance use: Substance use and psychiatric disorders in a multiethnic sample of males. American Journal of Public Health, 94(9), 1603-1609. Tubman, J. G., Montgomery, M. J., Gil, A.G., & Wagner, E. (2004). Abuse experiences in a community sample of young adults: Relations with psychiatric disorders, sexual risk behaviors, and sexually transmitted diseases. American Journal of Community Psychology, 34, 147-162. Tubman, J.G., Gil, A.G., Wagner, E.F. (2004). Co-occurring substance use and delinquent behavior during early adolescence: Emerging relations and implications for intervention strategies. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 31, 463-488. Tubman, JG., Gil, AG., Wagner, EF., & Artigues, H. (2003). Patterns of sexual risk behaviors and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of young adults. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 473-500. Gil, A.G., Vega, W.A., Turner, R.J. (2002). Early and mid-adolescence risk factors for later substance abuse by African Americans and European Americans. Public Health Reports, 117, S15-S29. Turner, R.J., & Gil, A.G. (2002). Psychiatric and substance use disorders in South Florida: Racial/Ethnic and gender contrasts in a young adult cohort. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 43-50. Vega, W.A., Gil, A.G., & Kolody, B. (2002). What do we know about Latino drug use? Methodological evaluation of State databases. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 24, 395-407. Wagner, E.F., Lloyd, D.A., & Gil, A.G. (2002). Racial/Ethnic and gender differences in the incidence and onset age of DSM-IV alcohol use disorder symptoms among adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63, 609-619. Tubman, J.G., Wagner, E.F., Gil, A.G., & Kerenza, P.N. (2002). Brief motivational intervention for substance-abusing delinquent adolescents: Guided self-change as a social work practice innovation. Health & Social Work, 27, 208-212.
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