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          • ABOUT THE CENTER

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          • 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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          • 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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          • 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
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          • 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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  • Madhabika B. Nayak, PhD

  • Clinical Psychologist
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Areas of Expertise

Epidemiology
Health
International
Methodology
Treatment & Recovery
Intervention Trials

FEATURED PROJECTS

Developing a depression screening module for a manualized computerized intervention for drinking during pregnancy

Project Director

Preparing a Computerized Tool for Preventing Prenatal Drinking for a Larger Trial

Principal Investigator

Kiosk-Based Prenatal Screening and Intervention for Nutrition and Drinking

Pilot Director

Methodologies for Improving Measurement of Alcohol Use and Problems (A Center Research Component)

Project Leader

Population Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, India

Co-Investigator

Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects

Co-Investigator

Randomized Trial of Intensive MI to Improve Drinking Outcomes among Women

Co-Investigator


PUBLICATIONS

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Randomized trial of an innovative electronic screening and brief intervention for reducing drinking among women of childbearing age


2019

Alcohol’s secondhand harms in the U.S.: new data on prevalence and risk factors


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2019

Development of Intensive Motivational Interviewing (IMI) and modifications for treating women with alcohol use disorders


Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 2018

Alcohol’s harm to children: findings from the 2015 United States National Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey


The Journal of Pediatrics, 2017

Changes in psychiatric symptoms among persons with methamphetamine dependence predicts changes in severity of drug problems but not frequency of use


Substance Abuse, 2016

Readiness to change and accept help and drinking outcomes in young adults of Mexican origin


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2015

Evaluating shortened versions of the AUDIT as screeners for alcohol use problems in a general population study


Substance Use and Misuse, 2015

Test-retest reliability and validity of life-course alcohol consumption measures: the 2005 National Alcohol Survey follow-up


Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2014

Adolescent drinking onset and its adult consequences among men: a population based study from India


Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2014

Randomized trial of intensive Motivational Interviewing for methamphetamine dependence


Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2014

Feasibility and acceptability of a novel, computerized Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) for alcohol and sweetened beverage use in pregnancy


BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2014

Sex differences in psychiatric symptoms among methamphetamine-dependent residents in sober living houses


Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 2012

Lifetime victimization and current alcohol use in a U.S. population sample of men and women drinkers


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2012

Partner alcohol use, violence and women’s mental health: a population based survey in India.


British Journal of Psychiatry, 2010

Who We Are

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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