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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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  • Libo Li, PhD

  • Biostatistician; Co-director of the Statistics and Data Services Core
  • lli@arg.org 510-898-5855
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  • RESEARCH FOCUS

    Application of statistical methods to alcohol and drug abuse research, including longitudinal studies, treatment evaluation, measurement and psychometrics of inventories.

Areas of Expertise

Methodology
Epidemiology

FEATURED PROJECTS

National Alcohol Research Center Statistical and Data Services Core (A Center Core Component)
Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects
Cross-national Analysis of Alcohol and Injury
Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions
Understanding Racial Disparities in Heavy Drinking over the Life Course
Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Desistance Among Asian Americans: A Lifecourse Examination of Critical Periods and Subgroup Disparities

Biostatistician

Health Disparities in Alcohol Use and Other Risk Behaviors after the Onset of Cancers and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Conditions

Biostatistician

Disrupting Pathways from Early Adversity to Adult Substance Abuse: Identifying Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups

Biostatistician


PUBLICATIONS

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Gender differences in mortality among treated opioid dependent patients


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2015

Heterogeneity of mental health service utilization and high mental health service use among women eight years after initiating substance use disorder treatment


Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2015

The effects of opioid substitution treatment and highly active antiretroviral therapy on the cause-specific risk of mortality among HIV positive people who inject drugs


Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2015

Mortality among individuals accessing pharmacological treatment for opioid dependence in California, 2006–10


Addiction, 2015

Risk factors associated with HCV among opioid-dependent patients in a multisite study


Journal of Community Health, 2015

Maternal mental health and children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Beyond maternal substance use disorders


Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2015

Factors associated with differential use of mental health services among women over 8 years after substance abuse treatment


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2015

Utilization and outcomes of detoxification and maintenance treatment for opioid dependence in publicly-funded facilities in California, US: 1991-2012


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2014

Perceived Neighborhood Safety, Recovery Capital, and Successful Outcomes Among Mothers 10 years After Substance Abuse Treatment


Substance Use & Misuse, 2014

Characterizing longitudinal health state transitions among heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine users


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2014

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About ARG

We are a non-profit research organization that seeks to improve public health through deepening our understanding of alcohol and other drug use and investigating innovative approaches to reduce its consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

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