William C. Kerr, PhD
Senior Scientist; Center Director
Email
wkerr@arg.orgPhone
510-898-5841External Bio
Google Scholar LinkExpertise
Methodology of alcohol use measurement; trends in U.S. alcohol consumption; the underlying causes and relationships between alcohol use and health outcomes; health disparities; economic conditions and alcohol problems; alcohol control policy and policy evaluation.
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Current Projects
- National Alcohol Research Center Administrative Core (A Center Core Component) (Director)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: Disparities in alcohol-related risks for injury, diabetes and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (A Center Research Component) (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects (Co-Investigator)
- Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions (Principal Investigator)
- Economic Contraction and Alcohol-related Suicides: A Multi-level Analysis (Co-Investigator)
- Effects of Spirits Privatization on Alcohol Prices and Alcohol-Related Harms (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol and Pregnancy: Do State-level Punitive and Supportive Policies Matter? (Co-Investigator)
- Calibrated Agent Simulations for Combined Analysis of Drinking Etiologies (CASCADE) (Sub-contract PI)
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Completed Projects
- Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy (Co-Investigator)
- Alcohol Beverage Tax Rates (Principal Investigator)
- Epidemiological Analysis of the National Alcohol Survey (A Center Research Component) (Component Director)
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Principal Investigator)
- Malt Liquor/Fortified Wine Use and Ethnicity in the U.S. (Co-Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Associate Director)
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Co-Investigator)
- The Effects of Privatization of Alcohol Control Systems (Principal Investigator)
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Selected Publications
- Kerr, W.C., Lui, C. Ye, Y. (2018). Trends and age, period and cohort effects for marijuana use prevalence in the 1984 to 2015 US National Alcohol Surveys. Addiction, 113 (3) 473-481 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Williams, E., Li, L., Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., Lown, E.A. (2018). Alcohol use patterns and risk of diabetes onset in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort. Preventative Medicine, 109 22-27 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Lui, C.K., Williams, E., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., & Lown, E.A. (2017). Health risk factors associated with lifetime abstinence from alcohol in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41 (2) 388-398 Abstract or Full Text
- Cherpitel, C.J., Ye Y., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Relationship of usual volume and heavy consumption to risk of alcohol-related injury: racial/ethnic disparities in four U.S. National Alcohol Surveys. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77 (1) 58-67 Abstract or Full Text
- Kaplan, M.S., Huguet, N,. Caetano ,R., Giesbrecht, N., Kerr, W.C,. McFarland ,B.H. (2016). Heavy alcohol use among suicide decedents relative to a nonsuicide comparison group: gender-specific effects of economic contraction. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 40 (7) 1501-1506 Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaraman, M.S., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Opinions on the privatization of distilled-spirits in Washington State: did voters change their minds?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77 (4) 568-576 Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaramann, M.S., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Marijuana policy opinions in Washington state since legalization: would voters vote the same way?. Contemporary Drug Problems, Abstract or Full Text
- Ye, Y., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Estimated increase in cross-border purchases by Washington residents following liquor privatization and implications for alcohol consumption trends. Addiction, 111 (11) 1948-1953 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr WC, Ye Y, Greenfield TK, Williams E, Lui CK, Li L, Lown EA (2016). Changes in heavy drinking following onset of health problems in a U.S. general population sample. Preventive Medicine, 6 (95) 47-51 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., Williams, E., Lown, E.A., Lui, C.K. (2016). Early life health, trauma and social determinants of lifetime abstention from alcohol. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 51 (5) 576-83 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr W.C., Greenfield T.K. (2015). Racial/ethnic disparities in the self-reported number of drinks in 2 hours before driving becomes impaired. American Journal of Public Health, Jan 20 e1-e6 Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaraman M.S., Kerr W.C. (2015). Simultaneous versus concurrent use of alcohol and cannabis in the National Alcohol Survey. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39 (5) 872-879. Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C, Williams, E., Greenfield, T.K. (2015). Analysis of price changes in Washington following the 2012 liquor privatization. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50 (6) 654-660. Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr W.C., Ye Y., Cherpitel C.J. (2015). Racial/ethnic disparities in the risk of injury related to the frequency of heavy drinking occasions. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50 (5) 573-578 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Mulia, N., & Zemore, S.E. (2014). US trends in light, moderate and heavy drinking episodes from 2000 to 2010. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 38 (9) 2496-501 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
- Kerr, W.C., Patterson, D., Greenfield, T.K., Jones, A.S., McGeary, K.A., Terza, J.V. and Ruhm, C. (2013). U.S. Alcohol Affordability and Real Tax Rates, 1950 – 2011. American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 44 (5) 459-464. Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Greenfield, T.K., Ye, Y., Bond, J., & Rehm, J. (2013). Are the 1976-1985 birth cohorts heavier drinkers? Age-period-cohort analyses of the National Alcohol Surveys 1979-2010. Addiction, 108 (6) 1038-1048 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C & Stockwell, T. (2012). Understanding standard drinks and drinking guidelines. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31 (2) 200-205 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Ye, Y. and Rehm, J. (2011). Racial and ethnic differences in all-cause mortality risk according to consumption patterns in the National Alcohol Surveys. American Journal of Epidemiology, 174 (7) 769-778 Abstract or Full Text
