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  • Nina Mulia, DrPH

  • Scientist

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    nmulia@arg.org
  • Phone

    510-898-5850
  • Expertise

    Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in alcohol use, problems and treatment services utilization; role of social and environmental stressors and resources in problem drinking; life course changes in drinking patterns; effects of public health interventions and policies on alcohol-related outcomes and disparities.
Current Projects
  • Identifying Education Resilience Factors in Diverse Groups (Principal Investigator)
  • Differential Effects of Alcohol-related Policy Across U.S. Population Subgroups (A Center Research Component) (Principal Investigator)
Completed Projects
  • Understanding Racial Disparities in Heavy Drinking over the Life Course (Principal Investigator)
  • Race/ethnicity, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Disparities in Alcohol Problems (A Center Research Component) (Component Co-Director)
  • Effects of Disadvantage and Protective Resources on Alcohol-Related Disparities (Multiple Principal Investigator)
  • Racial Disparities in Access to Appropriate Alcohol Treatment Services (Multiple Principal Investigator)
  • Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators (Co-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)
  • Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions (Scientist)
  • Factors Responsible for Racial-Gender Disparities in Alcohol Services Use (Co-Investigator)
  • Disadvantage and Sociocultural Modifiers in Asian American Drinking (Co-Investigator)
Selected Publications
  • Subbaraman, M.S., Mulia, N., Kerr, W.C., Patterson, D., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., & Greenfield, T.K (2020). Relationships between US state alcohol policies and alcohol outcomes: differences by gender and race/ethnicity. Addiction , Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Lui, C.K., Ye, Y., Subbaraman, M.S., Kerr, W.C., & Greenfield, T.K (2019). U.S. alcohol treatment admissions after the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment , 106 113-121 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia N., Ye, Y., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Zemore S.E., and Jones-Webb, R. (2018). Protective factors as an explanation for the “paradox” of black-white differences in heavy drinking. Substance Use and Misuse, 53(12): 2003-16 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Karriker-Jaffe, K.J., Witbrodt, J., Bond J, Williams, E., Zemore, S.E. (2017). Racial/ethnic differences in 30-year trajectories of heavy drinking in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 170: 133-141 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N. and Jones-Webb, R. (2017). 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, pp. 377-395 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Tam, T.W., Bond, J., Zemore, S.E., Li, L. (2017). Racial/ethnic differences in life-course heavy drinking from adolescence to midlife. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 17(2) 167-186 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Tam, T.W., & Schmidt, L.A. (2014). Disparities in the use and quality of alcohol treatment services and some proposed solutions. Psychiatric Services, 65 (5) 626-633 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia N., Zemore S., Murphy R., Liu H., Catalano R. (2014). Economic loss and alcohol consumption and problems during the 2008-9 U.S. recession. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 (4) 1026-1034 Abstract or Full Text
  • Avalos, L.A. & Mulia, N. (2012). Formal and informal substance use treatment utilization and alcohol abstinence over seven years: Is the relationship different for blacks and whites?. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 121 (2-Jan) 73-80 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N. & Karriker-Jaffe, K.J. (2012). Interactive Influences of Neighborhood and Individual Socioeconomic Status on Alcohol Consumption and Problems. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47 (2) 178-186 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Schmidt, L.A., Ye, Y., & Greenfield, T. K. (2011). Preventing disparities in alcohol screening and brief intervention: The need to move beyond primary care.. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 35 (9) 1557-1560 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T. K., & Zemore, S. E. (2009). Disparities in alcohol-related problems among white, black, and Hispanic Americans. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 33 (4) 654-662 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Schmidt, L., Bond, J., Jacobs, L., & Korcha, R. (2008). Stress, social support and problem drinking among women in poverty. Addiction, 103 (8) 1283-93 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Ye, Y., Zemore, S. E., & Greenfield, T. K. (2008). Social disadvantage, stress and alcohol use among black, Hispanic and white Americans: Findings from the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69 (6) 824-33 Abstract or Full Text
  • Schmidt, L, Greenfield, T. K., Mulia, N. (2006). Unequal treatment: racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment services. Alcohol Res. Health, 29 (1) 49-54 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N. (2002). Ironies in the pursuit of well-being: the perspectives of low-income, substance-using women on service institutions. Contemporary Drug Problems, 29 : 711-48
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