Christina Tam, PhD
Scientist
Email
ctam@arg.orgPhone
510-898-5861CV
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Racial and ethnic disparities in substance use and other health risk behaviors; Coethnic density and neighborhood effects; Asian American drinking; Intersections of substance use and the criminal legal system
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Current Projects
- Trauma, Substance Use, and Incarceration Over the Lifecourse: Identifying Social Supports to Promote Resiliency in a US National Cohort Study (Principal Investigator)
- Social, Individual and community influences on alcohol use disorders and other mental health behaviors in Mexican Americans (Scientist)
- Health Disparities in Alcohol Use and Other Risk Behaviors after the Onset of Cancers and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Conditions (Scientist)
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Completed Projects
- Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects (Scientist)
- A Multi-Lingual Alcohol Measure Catalog/ Administration Tool - Phase II (Scientist)
- Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Desistance Among Asian Americans: A Lifecourse Examination of Critical Periods and Subgroup Disparities (Principal Investigator)
- Disrupting Pathways from Early Adversity to Adult Substance Abuse: Identifying Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups (Scientist)
- Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Retail Outlets in Washington (Scientist)
- Disaggregating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to identify mechanisms of adolescent suicide risk (Scientist)
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Selected Publications
- Tam, C. C., Kerr, W. C., Cook, W. K., & Li, L. (2024). At-risk drinking in US adults with health conditions: Differences by gender, race, and ethnicity in the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, 2015–2019. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11 (3) 1444-1453 Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, C. C., Li, L., Lui, C. K., & Cook, W. K. (2024). Drinking patterns among US men and women: Racial and ethnic differences from adolescence to early midlife. Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, 48 (6) 1076–1087 Abstract or Full Text
- Greenfield, T. K., Tam, C. C., & Kerr, W. C. (2024). Secondhand harms from cannabis use: Findings from Washington State, United States. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 85 (6) 777–787 Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, C. C., Li, L., Kosai, S., Duhart Clarke, S. E., Ehlers, C. L., & Karriker-Jaffe, K. J. (2024). Protective effects of ethnic enclaves: Testing pathways to alcohol use and use disorders in Mexican American young adults. American Journal of Community Psychology, 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
- Tam, C. C., Gilder, D. A., Li, L., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Duhart Clarke, S. E., & Ehlers, C. L. ( (2022). Age of onset and alcohol and cannabis use disorders among Mexican American young adults: Robust substance-specific effects of early use as a risk factor. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 10 1-21 Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, C. C., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., & Greenfield, T. K. (2021). Drinking and neighborhood contexts of alcohol’s harms from others. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 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
- Tam, C.C. (2020). Ethnic enclaves and ethnoburbs: Are there differences in associations with juvenile offense type among Asian Americans?. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Abstract or Full Text
- Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Tam, C. C., Cook, W. K., Greenfield, T. K., & Roberts, S. (2020). Gender equality, drinking cultures and second-hand harms from alcohol in the 50 US states. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 (23) Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, CC, Karriker-Jaffe, KJ, Chartier, KG. (2020). Understanding addictive behavior from a human diversity perspective. In Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors, A. Begun and M. Murray, Co-editors
- Tam, C. C., Dauria, E. F., Cook, M. C., Ti, A., Comfort, M., & Tolou-Shams, M. (2019). Justice involvement and girls’ sexual health: Directions for policy and practice. Children and Youth Services Review, 98 278-283 Abstract or Full Text
- Finno-Velasquez, M., Palmer, L., Prindle, J., Tam, C. C., Putnam-Hornstein, E (2017). A birth cohort study of Asian and Pacific Islander children reported for abuse or neglect by maternal nativity and ethnic origin. Child Abuse & Neglect, (72) 54-65 Abstract or Full Text
- Cook, W.K., Tseng, W., Tam, C., John, I., Lui, C. (2017). Ethnic-group socioeconomic status as an indicator of community-level disadvantage: a study of overweight/obesity in Asian American adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 184 15-22 Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, C. C., Abrams, L. S., Freisthler, B., & Ryan, J. P. (2016). Juvenile justice sentencing: do gender and child welfare status matter?. Children and Youth Services Review, 64 60-65
- Abrams, L. S., & Tam, C. C. (2016). Gender differences in desistance from crime: How do social bonds operate among formerly incarcerated emerging adults?. Journal of Adolescent Research, 33(1) 34-57 Abstract or Full Text
- Tam, C. C., Freisthler, B., Curry, S. R, & Abrams, L. S. (2016). Where are the Beds? Housing Locations for Transition Age Youth Exiting Public Systems. Families in Society: The journal of contemporary human services, 97 (2) 117-119
- Tam, C., & Freisthler, B. (2015). An Exploratory Analysis of Acculturation, Neighborhood, and Risk Behaviors among Children of Southeast Asian Immigrants. Child and Adolescent Social Work, 32 (4) 383-393 Abstract or Full Text
