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          • ABOUT THE CENTER

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          • MEET THE DIRECTOR


            Senior Scientist, William (Bill) C. Kerr, PhD, is Director of ARG’s National Alcohol Research Center and Co-Directs the National Alcohol Survey and the Health Disparities projects.  Bill also serves as the scientific director at ARG and continues to lead R01 projects, including a grant to investigate secondhand harms from alcohol and other drugs.

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            Scientist Nina Mulia, DrPH, is Center Associate Director and Director of the Alcohol Services project. She specializes in and has published widely on race and ethnicity and socioeconomic disparities in heavy drinking, alcohol problems, and alcohol services utilization.

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          • ASSESSING HID OVER THE LIFECOURSE

            This project, led by Camillia Lui, PhD, traces trends in harmful drinking patterns over a 40-year period, and identifies a range of alcohol-related precursors and problems through event-based and population-based approaches to inform early screening and interventions for high-risk groups.

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            Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director, Priscilla Martinez, oversees the survey design, data collection, and analyses.  In the latest cycle of the NAS, Priscilla conducted dried blood spot sampling to help better understand the relationship between how our immune systems work and what role they might play in how alcohol use can affect our mental health.

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  • Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD

  • Senior Scientist

  • Email

    tgreenfield@arg.org
  • Phone

    510-898-5853; Cell: 510-326-1555
  • External Bio

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  • Expertise

    Epidemiology of alcohol use and problems, alcohol policy studies, alcohol-related problem and consumption measurement, drinking patterns and mortality, cultural and racial/ethnic variations in drinking behavior; US and cross-national population studies; services research and consumer satisfaction; alcohol’s harm to others.
Current Projects
  • National Alcohol Research Center Statistical and Data Services Core (A Center Core Component) (Director)
  • High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course (Co-Director)
Completed Projects
  • Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Co-investigator)
  • Improving Alcohol Consumption Self-report Measurement (Principal Investigator)
  • Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators (Co-Investigator)
  • Population Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, India (Principal Investigator)
  • Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
  • National Alcohol Surveys (NAS) Resources (A Center Core Component) (Co-Director)
  • Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Principal Investigator)
  • When Does Pressure Facilitate Help Seeking? 25 Year Trends and Correlates (Co-Investigator)
  • Epidemiology of Drinking and Disorders in Border vs. Non-Border Contexts (Co-Investigator)
  • Sex, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
  • Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Principal Investigator)
  • Alcohol- and Drug-Attributable Burden of Disease and Injury in the U.S. (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
  • Alcohol in Mexican-Origin Groups: U.S. and Mexican Surveys, (Initial Principal Investigator)
  • Effects of Spirits Privatization on Alcohol Prices and Alcohol-Related Harms (Co-Investigator)
  • Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects (Multiple Principal Investigator)
  • Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions (Co-Investigator)
  • Methodologies for Improving Measurement of Alcohol Use and Problems (A Center Research Component) (Co-Investigator)
  • A Multi-Lingual Alcohol Measure Catalog/ Administration Tool - Phase II (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
  • Alcohol's Harms to Others: Multinational Cultural Contexts and Policy Implications (Multiple Principal Investigator)
  • Sugar Alert- Evaluating San Francisco’s Sugar Sweetened Beverage Advertising (Principal Investigator (Subaward))
  • Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Retail Outlets in Washington (Co-Investigator)
  • Calibrated Agent Simulations for Combined Analysis of Drinking Etiologies (CASCADE) (Co-Investigator)
Selected Publications
  • Greenfield, T.K., Cook, W.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Li, L., Room, R. (2021). Are countries’ drink-driving policies associated with harms involving another driver’s impairment?. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (2) 429-435 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W.K., Li, L., Greenfield, T.K., Patterson, D., Naimi, T., Xuan, Z., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., (2020). State alcohol policies, binge drinking prevalence, socioeconomic environments and alcohol’s harms to others: a mediation analysis. Alcohol and Alcohol , 73 Abstract or Full Text
  • Trangenstein, P.J., Subbaraman, M.S., Greenfield, T.K., Mulia, N., Kerr, W.C., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2020). Association between state-level alcohol availability and taxation policies on the prevalence of alcohol-related harms to persons other than the drinker in the USA, 2000-2015. Drug and Alcohol Review, 39 (3) 255-266 Abstract or Full Text
  • Wilsnack, S.C., Greenfield, T.K., Bloomfield, K.A., (2018). The GENAHTO Project (Gender and Alcohol’s Harm to Others): design and methods for a multinational study of alcohol’s harm to persons other than the drinker. The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 7 37-47
  • Greenfield, T.K., Ye, Y., Lown, E.A., Cherpitel, C.J., Zemore, S., Borges, G., (2017). Alcohol use patterns and DSM-5 alcohol use disorder on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41 (4) 769-778 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., & Kaplan, L.M.  (2016). Those harmed by others’ drinking in the US population are more depressed and distressed. Drug and Alcohol Review, 35 (1) 22-29 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Kaplan, L.M., Kerr, W.C., Wilsnack, S.C. (2015). Trends in Alcohol’s Harms to Others (AHTO) and co-occurrence of family-related AHTO: the four US National Alcohol Surveys 2000 to 2015. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 9 (Suppl. 2) 23-31 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield TK, Nayak MB, Bond J, Kerr WC, Ye Y (2014). Test-retest reliability and validity of life-course alcohol consumption measures: the 2005 National Alcohol Survey follow-up. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 38 (9) 2479-87 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield T.K., Ye Y., Bond J., Kerr W.C., Nayak M.B., Kaskutas L.A., Anton, R.E., Litten, R.Z., Kranzler, H.R. (2014). Risks of alcohol use disorders related to drinking patterns in the US general population. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75 (2) 319-327 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield T.K., Karriker-Jaffe K.J., Giesbrecht N., Kerr W.C., Ye Y., Bond J. (2014). Second-hand drinking may increase support for alcohol policies: new results from the 2010 National Alcohol Survey. Drug & Alcohol Review, 33 (3) 259-267 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T.K., Bond, J., Kerr, W.C. (2014). Biomonitoring for improving alcohol consumption surveys: the new gold standard?. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 36: 39-45 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K., Kerr, W. C. (2008). Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities. Addiction, 103 (7) 1082-99 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield, T. K., Nayak, M. B., Bond, J., Ye, Y., & Midanik, L. T (2006). Maximum quantity consumed and alcohol-related problems: assessing the most alcohol drunk with two measures. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 30 (9) 1576-82 Abstract or Full Text
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