Staff
Research Staff
William C. Kerr, PhD
Senior Scientist
Email: Phone: 510-597-3440
Education:
PhD Economics, University of California at Davis
BA Economics, New College in Sarasota, Florida
Primary Research Area:
The methodology of alcohol use measurement, trends in U.S. alcohol consumption, and the underlying causes and relationships between alcohol use and mortality outcomes, alcohol policy.
Current Projects:
- Alcohol Beverage Tax Rates (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Principal Investigator)
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Co-Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Senior Scientist/Director of Methodology Component)
- Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy (Co-Investigator)
Recently/Selected Completed Projects:
- Does Moderate Drinking Prevent Heart Disease? A Meta Analysis and Re-Estimation of Alcohol Caused Mortality in Australia(Scientist)
The goals of the study are to estimate the impact of alcohol consumption on all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease and stroke mortality carefully controlling for a variety of differences between studies including alcohol consumption measures and particularly the identification of lifetime abstainers. - Malt Liquor/Fortified Wine Use and Ethnicity in the U.S. (Co-Investigator)
- The Effects of Privatization of Alcohol Control Systems (Principal Investigator)
Awards & Activities:
- Kettil Bruun Society for International Alcohol Epidemiology. Elected Member of the Coordinating Committee (2007 - Present); Ole-Jorgen Skog Award committee (2008, 2009)
- Assistant Editor for ADDICTION (2004 - Present)
Selected Research Publications:
Kerr, W.C. (2010) Categorizing US State Drinking Practices and Consumption Trends. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(1), 269-283.
Kerr, W.C. & Ye, Y. (2010) Effects of life-course drinking patterns on diabetes, heart problems and hypertension among those 40 and older in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, forthcoming
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Ye, Y., & Rehm, J. (2009) Age-period-cohort modeling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: divergence in younger and older adult trends. Addiction, 104(1), 27-27.
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K. & Patterson, D. (2009) Differences in the measured alcohol content of drinks between black, white and Hispanic men and women in a US national sample. Addiction, 104(9), 1503-1511.
Kerr, W.C., Patterson, D., Albert Koenen, M. & Greenfield, T.K. (2009) Large drinks are no mistake: Glass size, not shape, affects alcoholic drink pours.. Drug and Alcohol Review, 28(4), 360-365.
Kerr, W.C., Patterson, D., Albert Koenen, M. & Greenfield, T.K. (2009) Large drinks are no mistake: Glass size, not shape, affects alcoholic drink pours. Drug and Alcohol Review, 28(4), 360-365.
Greenfield, T. K., Kerr, W. C. (2008) Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities. Addiction, 103(7), 1082-99.
Kerr, W. C., Patterson, D., Koenen, M. A., & Greenfield, T. K. (2008) Alcohol content variation of bar and restaurant drinks in Northern California. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 32(9), 1623-29.
Rehm, J., Irving, H., Ye, Y., Kerr, W. C., Bond, J., & Greenfield, T. K. (2008) Are lifetime abstainers the best control group in alcohol epidemiology? On the stability and validity of reported lifetime abstention. Am. J. Epidemiol., 168(8), 866-71.
Kerr, W. C., & Greenfield, T. K. (2007) Distribution of alcohol consumption and expenditures and the impact of improved measurement on coverage of alcohol sales in the 2000 National Alcohol Survey. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 31(10), 1714-22.
Kerr, W. C., Ye, Y. (2007) Population-level relationships between alcohol consumption measures and ischaemic heart disease mortality in U.S. time-series. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 31(11), 1913-19.
Fillmore, K. M., Stockwell, T., Chikritzhs, T., Bostrom, A., & Kerr, W. C. (2007) Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: systematic error in prospective studies and new hypotheses. Ann. Epidemiol., 17(5S), S16-S23.
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Midanik, L T (2006) How many drinks does it take you to feel drunk? Trends and predictors for subjective drunkenness. Addiction, 101(10), 1428-37.
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Tujague, J (2006) Estimates of the mean alcohol concentration of the spirits, wine, and beer sold in the U.S. and per capita consumption: 1950-2002. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 30(9), 1583-91.
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Tujague, J., & Brown, S. (2005) A drink is a drink? Variation in the alcohol content of beer, wine, and spirits drinks in a U.S. methodological sample. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 29(11), 2015-21.
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