William C. Kerr, PhD
Scientific Director; Senior Scientist; Center Director; T32 Training Program Director
Email
wkerr@arg.orgPhone
510-898-5841External Bio
Google Scholar LinkExpertise
Methodology of alcohol use measurement; trends in U.S. alcohol consumption; the underlying causes and relationships between alcohol use and health outcomes; health disparities; economic conditions and alcohol problems; alcohol control policy and policy evaluation.
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Current Projects
- National Alcohol Research Center Administrative Core (A Center Core Component) (Director)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: Disparities in alcohol-related risks for injury, diabetes and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (A Center Research Component) (Principal Investigator)
- Calibrated Agent Simulations for Combined Analysis of Drinking Etiologies (CASCADE) (Sub-contract PI)
- Secondhand Harms from Alcohol & Drugs: Impacts on Families and Communities across the US (Principal Investigator)
- Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Retail Outlets in Washington (Principal Investigator)
- A Microsimulation of Alcohol Control Interventions to Advance Health Equity and Reverse the Current Decrease in Life Expectancy in the US (Sub-contract PI)
- Understanding longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 pandemic outcomes and alcohol use and problems (Co-Investigator)
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Completed Projects
- Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy (Co-Investigator)
- Alcohol Beverage Tax Rates (Principal Investigator)
- Epidemiological Analysis of the National Alcohol Survey (A Center Research Component) (Component Director)
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol's Harms to Others among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects (Co-Investigator)
- Malt Liquor/Fortified Wine Use and Ethnicity in the U.S. (Co-Investigator)
- Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions (Principal Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Associate Director)
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Co-Investigator)
- Economic Contraction and Alcohol-related Suicides: A Multi-level Analysis (Co-Investigator)
- The Effects of Privatization of Alcohol Control Systems (Principal Investigator)
- Effects of Spirits Privatization on Alcohol Prices and Alcohol-Related Harms (Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol and Pregnancy: Do State-level Punitive and Supportive Policies Matter? (Co-Investigator)
- National Alcohol Surveys (NAS) Resources (A Center Core Component) (Co-Lead)
- Alcohol and Pregnancy: Do State-level Punitive and Supportive Policies Matter? (Co-Investigator)
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Selected Publications
- Ye, Y., Cherpitel, C. J., Terza, J. V., & Kerr, W. C. (2021). Quantifying risk of injury from usual alcohol consumption: An instrumental variable analysis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45 (10) 2029-2039 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W. C., Williams, E., Patterson, D., Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., & Greenfield, T. K. (2021). Extending the harm to others paradigm: comparing marijuana- and alcohol-attributed harms in Washington State. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 53 (2) 149-157 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W. C., Ye, Y., Williams, E., Mulia, N., & Cherpitel, C. J. (2020). Trends and disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native unintentional injury mortality from 1999 to 2016. Injury Prevention, Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., Williams, E., Lui, C.K., Greenfield, T.K., Lown, E.A., (2019). Lifetime alcohol use patterns and risk of diabetes onset in the National Alcohol Survey. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43 (2) 262-269 Abstract or Full Text
- Martinez P., Kerr W.C., Subbaraman M., Roberts S.C.M. (2019). New estimates of the mean ethanol content of beer, wine, and spirits sold in the United States show a greater increase in per capita alcohol consumption than previous estimates. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43 509-521 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W. C., Ye, Y., & Greenfield, T. K. (2019). Changes in spirits purchasing behaviours after privatisation of government-controlled sales in Washington, USA.. Drug and Alcohol Review, 38 294-301 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W. C., Ye, Y., & Greenfield, T. K. (2019). Spirits purchasing and marijuana use behaviors of risky drinkers in the state of Washington from 2014 to 2016.. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 198 7-12 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Williams, E., Subbaraman, M.S., Greenfield, T.K. (2018). Survey estimates of changes in alcohol use patterns following the 2012 privatization of the Washington liquor monopoly. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 53 470-476 Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaraman M.S., Thomas S., Treffers R., Delucchi K., Kerr W.C., Martinez P., Roberts S.C.M. (2018). Associations between state‐level policies regarding alcohol use among pregnant women, adverse birth outcomes, and prenatal care utilization. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., Subbaraman, M.S., Williams, E., Greenfield, T.K. (2018). Changes in marijuana use across the 2012 Washington state recreational legalization: Is retrospective assessment of use before legalization more accurate?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79 495-502 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Williams, E., Li, L., Lui, C. K., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., Lown, E.A. (2018). Alcohol use patterns and risk of diabetes onset in the 1979 national longitudinal survey of youth cohort. Preventative Medicine, 109 22-27 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Lui, C. Ye, Y. (2018). Trends and age, period and cohort effects for marijuana use prevalence in the 1984 to 2015 US National Alcohol Surveys. Addiction, 113 (3) 473-481 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Lui, C.K., Williams, E., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., & Lown, E.A. (2017). Health risk factors associated with lifetime abstinence from alcohol in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41 (2) 388-398 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T.K., Williams, E., Lown, E.A., Lui, C.K. (2016). Early life health, trauma and social determinants of lifetime abstention from alcohol. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 51 (5) 576-83 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr WC, Ye Y, Greenfield TK, Williams E, Lui CK, Li L, Lown EA (2016). Changes in heavy drinking following onset of health problems in a U.S. general population sample. Preventive Medicine, 6 (95) 47-51 Abstract or Full Text
- Ye, Y., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Estimated increase in cross-border purchases by Washington residents following liquor privatization and implications for alcohol consumption trends. Addiction, 111 (11) 1948-1953 Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaramann, M.S., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Marijuana policy opinions in Washington state since legalization: would voters vote the same way?. Contemporary Drug Problems, Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaraman, M.S., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Opinions on the privatization of distilled-spirits in Washington State: did voters change their minds?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77 (4) 568-576 Abstract or Full Text
- Cherpitel, C.J., Ye Y., Kerr, W.C. (2016). Relationship of usual volume and heavy consumption to risk of alcohol-related injury: racial/ethnic disparities in four U.S. National Alcohol Surveys. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77 (1) 58-67 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr W.C., Ye Y., Cherpitel C.J. (2015). Racial/ethnic disparities in the risk of injury related to the frequency of heavy drinking occasions. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50 (5) 573-578 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C, Williams, E., Greenfield, T.K. (2015). Analysis of price changes in Washington following the 2012 liquor privatization. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50 (6) 654-660. Abstract or Full Text
- Subbaraman M.S., Kerr W.C. (2015). Simultaneous versus concurrent use of alcohol and cannabis in the National Alcohol Survey. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39 (5) 872-879. Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr W.C., Greenfield T.K. (2015). Racial/ethnic disparities in the self-reported number of drinks in 2 hours before driving becomes impaired. American Journal of Public Health, Jan 20 e1-e6 Abstract or Full Text
- Greenfield TK, Nayak MB, Bond J, Kerr WC, Ye Y (2014). Test-retest reliability and validity of life-course alcohol consumption measures: the 2005 National Alcohol Survey follow-up. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 38 (9) 2479-87 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Mulia, N., & Zemore, S.E. (2014). US trends in light, moderate and heavy drinking episodes from 2000 to 2010. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 38 (9) 2496-501 Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Patterson, D., Greenfield, T.K., Jones, A.S., McGeary, K.A., Terza, J.V. and Ruhm, C. (2013). U.S. Alcohol Affordability and Real Tax Rates, 1950 – 2011. American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 44 (5) 459-464. Abstract or Full Text
- Kerr, W.C., Greenfield, T.K., Ye, Y., Bond, J., & Rehm, J. (2013). Are the 1976-1985 birth cohorts heavier drinkers? Age-period-cohort analyses of the National Alcohol Surveys 1979-2010. Addiction, 108 (6) 1038-1048 Abstract or Full Text
