Scientist

pkreiner@brandeis.edu Heller 250 781-736-3945

Expertise

Program evaluation, especially in substance abuse prevention and treatment; Interagency network analysis; Small area measures and models

Scholarship

• Markoff, L., Finkelstein, N., Kammerer, N., Kreiner, P., and Prost, C. (2005). Relational systems change: Implementing a model of change in integrating services for women with substance abuse and mental health disorders and histories of trauma. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 32(2), 227-240.
• Kreiner, P., Soldz, S., Berger, M., Elliott, E., Reynes, J., Williams, C., and Rodriguez-Howard, M. (2001). Social indicator-based measures of substance abuse consequences, risk, and protection at the town level. Journal of Primary Prevention, 22(3), 339-365.
• Soldz, S., Kreiner, P., Clark, T., and Krakow, M. (2000). Tobacco use among Massachusetts youth: Is tobacco control working? Preventive Medicine, 31, 287-295.
• Kreiner, P. and Bhambri, A. (1991). Influence and information in organization-stakeholder relationships. Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, 12, 3-36.

Profile

Peter Kreiner, Ph.D., is a Scientist at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University. His research encompasses three overlapping areas: (1) inter-organizational and interpersonal networks, and their roles in health services coordination and, more generally, state and community health infrastructures; (2) diffusion of innovation, including the adoption of evidence-based programs by substance abuse prevention and treatment agencies; and (3) small area measures and models of health-related and social problems, risk for such problems, and protection from such problems.

Degrees

University of Southern California
Ph.D.

Princeton University
B.A.

Awards and Honors

• Four-year doctoral fellowship
• Invited presenter at Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Needs Assessment Conferences in 1998 and 2002