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  - - - ABOUT THE CENTER
        History, Mission, & Focus
    - - 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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- People
  - - - THE CENTER TEAM
        Center Leadership
        
        Scientific Advisory Board
        
        Research Partners
    - - MEET THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
        
        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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- Research
  - - - CENTER RESEARCH
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        Research Projects
        
        Affiliated Research
    - - 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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- National Alcohol Surveys
  - - - ABOUT THE SURVEY
        About the National Alcohol Survey
        
        NAS Datasets
        
        Get Access to the NAS data
    - - MEET THE SURVEY CO-DIRECTOR
        
        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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- - - OVERVIEW
      About the Training Program
      
      Predoctoral Fellowship
      
      Postdoctoral Fellowship
      
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  - - TRAINING STAFF
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      Current Fellows
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A comparison of drinking patterns and alcohol-use-related problems in the United States and Germany, 1995

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