Philip Kreniske
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Overview
Dr. Kreniske is a developmental psychologist who uses implementation science to study adolescent health, focusing on technology and inequity in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Kreniske uses digital technology in combination with public health methods to design and evaluate interventions that support vulnerable youth. In his international research, funded through 2025 in Uganda, Dr. Kreniske identified risk factors for adolescent HIV infection using quantitative and innovative qualitative methods (K01MH122319: PI Kreniske). Dr. Kreniske then adapted a mobile phone-based HIV prevention and mental health intervention for adolescents. In 2022, he was awarded an early career grant from the Society of Research on Adolescence (SRA) to study the use of my mobile phone-based intervention to address the mental health impact of COVID-19 for adolescents in Uganda and Kenya. His intervention research led him to examine issues of adolescent capacity consent to biomedical HIV research (R01MH134695: PI Kreniske).
Dr. Kreniske’s other line of inquiry focuses on reducing urban health inequities, including mental health and specifically suicide among young people from low-income households in the New York City Area. Using implementation science-based approaches and in collaboration with healthcare providers in the Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education & Training Center and youth living with HIV in the New York area, Dr. Kreniske is developing approaches to confront urgent public health issues, including suicide and systemic racism. Building on a longitudinal cohort study, this line of work has been supported through an NIMH-funded R21 titled Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic On Coping and Behavioral Health among young adults affected by HIV (EPOCH-HIV) (R21MH130268: PI Kreniske) and a New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Policy Scholars Grant titled, Preventing Black and Latinx youth suicide: Experiences of living with racism, stigma, and chronic disease (Prevent Black and Latinx Youth Suicide) (PI Kreniske).
In addition to his doctoral degree in Psychology, Dr. Kreniske completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Dr. Kreniske was previously appointed as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and as a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Kreniske is currently an Assistant Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at the City University of New York School of Public Health (CUNY SPH) and and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Kreniske uses digital technology in combination with public health methods to design and evaluate interventions that support vulnerable youth. In his international research, funded through 2025 in Uganda, Dr. Kreniske identified risk factors for adolescent HIV infection using quantitative and innovative qualitative methods (K01MH122319: PI Kreniske). Dr. Kreniske then adapted a mobile phone-based HIV prevention and mental health intervention for adolescents. In 2022, he was awarded an early career grant from the Society of Research on Adolescence (SRA) to study the use of my mobile phone-based intervention to address the mental health impact of COVID-19 for adolescents in Uganda and Kenya. His intervention research led him to examine issues of adolescent capacity consent to biomedical HIV research (R01MH134695: PI Kreniske).
Dr. Kreniske’s other line of inquiry focuses on reducing urban health inequities, including mental health and specifically suicide among young people from low-income households in the New York City Area. Using implementation science-based approaches and in collaboration with healthcare providers in the Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education & Training Center and youth living with HIV in the New York area, Dr. Kreniske is developing approaches to confront urgent public health issues, including suicide and systemic racism. Building on a longitudinal cohort study, this line of work has been supported through an NIMH-funded R21 titled Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic On Coping and Behavioral Health among young adults affected by HIV (EPOCH-HIV) (R21MH130268: PI Kreniske) and a New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Policy Scholars Grant titled, Preventing Black and Latinx youth suicide: Experiences of living with racism, stigma, and chronic disease (Prevent Black and Latinx Youth Suicide) (PI Kreniske).
In addition to his doctoral degree in Psychology, Dr. Kreniske completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Dr. Kreniske was previously appointed as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and as a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Kreniske is currently an Assistant Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at the City University of New York School of Public Health (CUNY SPH) and and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Academic Appointments
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BA, Oberlin College
- MSEd, Lehman College, CUNY
Research
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov