Andres Gil
Professor
Human Development and Family Relations
Florida International University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Gil completed his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Miami and 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.
Research Interest
Adolescent substance abuse,Epidemiology of substance use and misuse,Empirical evaluation of interventions
Publications
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Biafora F., Zimmerman R. (2002) Developmental Patterns of African American Adolescent Drug Use. In: Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence. Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series. Springer, Boston, MA
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Biafora, F. A., Warheit, G. J., Zimmerman, R. S., Gil, A. G., Apospori, E., Taylor, D. and Vega, W. A. (1993), Racial Mistrust and Deviant Behaviors Among Ethnically Diverse Black Adolescent Boys1. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 23: 891–910.
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Burrow, A. L., Tubman, J. G. and Gil, A. G. (2007), Heterogeneity in patterns of sexual risk behaviors among african-american youth: Associations with general and race-specific factors. J. Community Psychol., 35: 447–462.
