Nina Mulia, DrPH
Senior Scientist and Center Associate Director
- nmulia@arg.org 510-898-5850
RESEARCH FOCUS
Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in alcohol use, problems, and services access and quality, including alcohol screening and brief intervention and specialty treatment; role of social and environmental stressors in heavy drinking and alcohol problems; effects of health care policy on alcohol services utilization by population subgroups; life course changes in drinking patterns; quantitative and qualitative methods.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Racial Disparities in Access to Appropriate Alcohol Treatment Services
Multiple Principal Investigator
Effects of Disadvantage and Protective Resources on Alcohol-Related Disparities
Multiple Principal Investigator
Measuring Confrontation During Recovery
Co-Investigator
Race, Stressors, and Alcohol-related Disparities
Principal Investigator
Acculturation and Alcohol among U.S. Latinas
Co-Investigator
Alcohol Problems & Service Dynamics after Welfare Reform
Associate Scientist
Understanding Racial Disparities in Heavy Drinking over the Life Course
Principal Investigator
PUBLICATIONS
See All PublicationsInequities in alcohol screening of primary care patients with chronic conditions
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2024
Effects of Medicaid expansion on alcohol and opioid treatment admissions in US racial/ethnic groups
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2022
Alcohol-related disparities among women: Evidence and potential explanations
Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 2020
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, 2019
Protective factors as an explanation for the “paradox” of Black-White differences in heavy drinking
Substance Use and Misuse, 2018
Alcohol policy: A tool for addressing health disparities? In N. Giesbrecht and L. Bosma (eds.), Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems: Evidence and Community-Based Initiatives
Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Press, 2017
Racial/ethnic differences in life-course heavy drinking from adolescence to midlife
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2017
Racial/ethnic differences in 30-year trajectories of heavy drinking in a nationally representative U.S. sample
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2017
Economic loss and alcohol consumption and problems during the 2008-9 US recession
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014
Interactive influences of neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status on alcohol consumption and problems
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2012
Preventing disparities in alcohol screening and brief intervention: The need to move beyond primary care.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2011
Disparities in alcohol-related problems among white, Black, and Hispanic Americans
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2009
Social disadvantage, stress, and alcohol use among Black, Hispanic, and white Americans: Findings from the 2005 US national alcohol survey
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2008
