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Background Information and Areas of Research

Nina Mulia is an associate scientist at ARG. She is principal investigator of an NIAAA-funded study to examine the role of race-relevant stressors in alcohol-related health disparities.

Although her research has spanned various areas, including community-based HIV prevention with drug users, health and social services research, substance abuse in minority and immigrant populations, and women in poverty, her primary interests are the effects of economic and social marginalization on health and well-being. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, her most recent work examines lifetime changes in drinking patterns among Asian immigrant groups and the role of social and environmental stressors on alcohol use and problems in racial/ethnic groups and women in poverty.

She received her master's in public health policy and administration from the University of Michigan and her doctorate in community health sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. She joined ARG through the organization’s NIAAA-funded postdoctoral fellowship program.

 

Selected Publications

Schmidt, L., Greenfield, T.K., Mulia, N.  Unequal treatment: Racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment services.  Alcohol Research and Health, in press.

Downing, M., Riess, T., Vernon, K., Mulia, N., Hollinquest, M., McKnight, C., DesJarlais, D., and Edlin, B.R. (2005).  What’s community got to do with it?: Implementation models of syringe exchange programs.  AIDS Education and Prevention, 17(1):68-78.  

Mulia, N. and Schmidt, L. (2003). Conflicts and trade-offs due to alcohol and drugs: Clients’ accounts of leaving welfare. Social Service Review, 77 (4): 499-522.

Mulia, N. (2002). Ironies in the pursuit of well-being: The perspectives of low-income substance-using women on service institutions. Contemporary Drug Problems, 29, 711-748.

Mulia, N. (2001). “A woman has never to be broke.” Harm Reduction Communication, 12, Summer.

Mulia, N. (2000). Questioning sex: Drug-using women and heterosexual relations. Journal of Drug Issues, Special Issue on Substance Use, Abuse and Treatment: Feminist Perspectives, 30(4), 741-766.

Vernon, K., Mulia, N., Downing, M., Knight, K., and Riess, T. (2001).  “I don’t know when it might pop up”: Understanding repeat HIV testing and perceptions of HIV among drug users. Journal of Substance Abuse, 13(2): 215-227, 2001.

Downing, M., Mulia, N., Vernon, K., Knight, K., and Ferreboeuf, M. (2001). Voices from the field: Providers discuss HIV counseling and testing programs for drug users. AIDS and Public Policy, 15(2): 48-64.

Liebman, J. and Mulia, N. (1993). An office-based AIDS prevention program for high risk drug users. Drugs and Society, 7(3/4), 205-223.

Liebman, J., Mulia, N., and McIlvaine, D. (1992). Risk behavior for HIV infection of intravenous drug users and their sexual partners recruited from street settings in Philadelphia. Journal of Drug Issues, 22(4), 867-884.

 

Other ARG Publications of This Author Current Grants 

Race, Stressors, and Alcohol-related Health Disparities,  NIAAA R21 AA015397

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