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          • ABOUT THE CENTER

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            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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  • Camillia K. Lui, PhD

  • Scientist

  • Email

    clui@arg.org
  • Phone

    510-898-5842
  • Expertise

    Life course perspective and social determinants of health framework; social inequities among adolescents and young adults as it relates to alcohol, tobacco and mental health; environmental prevention strategies and policies to reduce substance use among youth; program evaluation and organizational capacity building in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities; quantitative, mixed-methods, and participatory research.
Current Projects
  • High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course (Co-Director)
  • California Reducing Disparities Project—Phase II: Asian American and Pacific Islander Technical Assistance Provider: Special Service for Groups (Subcontractor)
Completed Projects
  • Community College Smokefree Policies: Disparities, Contexts and Strategies (Principal Investigator)
  • Disaggregating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to identify mechanisms of adolescent suicide risk (Principal Investigator)
  • Disrupting Pathways from Early Adversity to Adult Substance Abuse: Identifying Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups (Co-Investigator)
  • Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Desistance Among Asian Americans: A Lifecourse Examination of Critical Periods and Subgroup Disparities (Co-Investigator)
  • Differential Effects of Alcohol-related Policy Across U.S. Population Subgroups (A Center Research Component) (Associate Scientist)
  • Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment (A Center Pilot Study) (Pilot Director)
  • Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions (Associate Scientist)
  • Understanding Racial Disparities in Heavy Drinking over the Life Course (Associate Scientist)
  • Effects of College Attendance on Young Adults in Recovery (Pilot Director)
  • 12-step Alternatives and Recovery Outcomes in a Large, National Study (Associate Scientist)
Selected Publications
  • Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Gee, J., Cook, W. K., Tam, C. C., Sun, S., Miranda, R., Subica, A., & Mulia, N.  (2024). Unmasking suicidal ideation for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander youths via data disaggregation. JAMA Netw Open, 7 (11) e2446832 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Jacobs, W., & Yang, J. S. (2024). Patterns of alcohol, cannabis, and e-cigarette use/co-use and mental health among U.S. college students. Substance Use & Misuse, 60 (1) 108–119 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Trieu, S. L., Gomes, A. M., Moose, K., Dao, L., Tehrani, S. H., Tong, E. K., & Mulia, N. (2024). Navigating threats of wildfires and individual rights to adopt 100% tobacco-free policy in rural California community colleges. , 49 (6) 1017-1025 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Gee, J., Cook, W. K., Tam, C. C., Sun, S., Miranda, R., Subica, A., & Mulia, N. (2024). Unmasking suicidal ideation for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youths via data disaggregation. JAMA Network Open, 7 (11) e2446832 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Witbrodt, J., Li, L., Tam, C. C., Williams, E., Guo, Z., & Mulia, N.  (2023). Associations between early childhood adversity and behavioral, substance use, and academic outcomes in childhood through adolescence in a U.S. longitudinal cohort. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 224 109795 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Patterson, D., & Trieu, S. L. (2022). School and community factors associated with the adoption of 100% smoke-free policy by California community colleges, 2003-2019. American Journal of Health Promotion, 36 (5) 869–875 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Lui, C. K., Bensley, K., & Subbaraman, M. S. (2022). Effects of Medicaid expansion on alcohol and opioid treatment admissions in US racial/ethnic groups. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1 (231) 109242 Abstract or Full Text
  • Tam, C. C., Lui, C. K., & Karriker-Jaffe, K. J. (2021). Intersections of neighborhood co-ethnic density and nativity status on heavy drinking in a general population sample of US Latinos and Asians. Alcohol and Alcoholism , 56 (1) 74-81 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C. K., Kerr, W. C., Li, L., Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Williams, E., Greenfield, T. K., & Lown, E. A. (2020). Lifecourse drinking patterns, hypertension, and heart problems among U.S. adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58 (3) 386-395 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zemore, S. E., Lui, C., & Mulia, N.  (2020). The downward spiral: Socioeconomic causes and consequences of alcohol dependence among men in late young adulthood, and relations to racial/ethnic disparities. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44 (3) 669-678 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Subbaraman, M. S., Kerr, W. C., & Greenfield, T. K. (2019). US alcohol treatment admissions after the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Do state parity laws and race/ethnicity make a difference?. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 106, 113-121 Abstract or Full Text
  • 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
  • Lui, C.K., Kerr, W.C., Mulia, N., Ye, Y. (2018). Educational differences in alcohol consumption and heavy drinking: an age-period-cohort perspective. Drug and Alcohol Dependence , 186 36-43 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zemore, S.E., Lui, C.K., Mericle, A., Hemberg,J., Kaskutas, L.A. (2018). A longitudinal study of the comparative efficacy of Women for Sobriety, LifeRing, SMART Recovery, and 12-step groups for those with AUD. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment , 88 18-26 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui, C.K. and Mulia, N. (2018). A life course approach to understanding racial/ethnic differences in transitions into and out of alcohol problems. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 53(4) 487-496 Abstract or Full Text
  • Lui C.K., Sterling S.A., Chi F.W., Lu Y., Campbell C.I. (2017). Socioeconomic differences in adolescent substance abuse treatment participation and long-term outcomes. Addictive Behaviors, 68 45-51 Abstract or Full Text
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Latest News

May 13th, 2025
Substance Use and Mental Health Risks Among U.S. College Students
May 2nd, 2025
The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Substance Use
April 10th, 2025
Understanding Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicide Risk Among Youth
April 8th, 2025
How Flawed Science Could Shape U.S. Alcohol Guidelines
April 2nd, 2025
New Study Reveals Why Alcohol Use Increased During the Pandemic

Recent Findings

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New Study Reveals Why Alcohol Use Increased During the Pandemic
November 23rd, 2024
Data disaggregation reveals hidden suicide risk
November 21st, 2024
Millions of Americans Hurt By Others’ Drinking, Drug Use: Study
September 4th, 2024
Alcohol Consumption Trends Across Disadvantaged Populations
June 4th, 2024
Socioeconomic status may determine how alcohol affects heart health

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