Camillia K. Lui, PhD
Scientist
Email
clui@arg.orgPhone
510-898-5842Expertise
Using a life course perspective, understanding and addressing the social inequities in risky alcohol and tobacco use among adolescents and young adults and the contexts in which these behaviors occur; environmental prevention strategies and local policies to reduce alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use among youth; program evaluation and organizational capacity building in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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Current Projects
- Disaggregating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to identify mechanisms of adolescent suicide risk (Principal Investigator)
- High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course (Co-Director)
- Disrupting Pathways from Early Adversity to Adult Substance Abuse: Identifying Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups (Co-Investigator)
- Secondhand Harms from Alcohol & Drugs: Impacts on Families and Communities across the US (Co-Investigator)
- California Reducing Disparities Project—Phase II: Asian American and Pacific Islander Technical Assistance Provider: Special Service for Groups (Subcontractor)
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Completed Projects
- Community College Smokefree Policies: Disparities, Contexts and Strategies (Principal 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)
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Selected Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Williams, E., Mulia, N., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Lui, C. (2017). Changing racial/ethnic disparities in heavy drinking trajectories through young adulthood: a comparative cohort study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42 (1) 135-143 Abstract or Full Text
- Lui CK, Chung PJ, Ford CL, Grella CE, & Mulia N. (2015). Drinking behaviors and life course socioeconomic status during the transition from adolescence to adulthood among Whites and Blacks. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 76 (1) 68-79 Abstract or Full Text
- Lui CK, Chung PJ, Wallace SP, & Aneshensel CS (2014). Social status attainment during the transition to adulthood. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43 (7) 1134-1150 Abstract or Full Text
- Lum C, Mays V, Corliss H, Cochran SD, & Lui CK. (2009). Differences in drinking behaviors among Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese college students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70 (4) 568-574 Abstract or Full Text
