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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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            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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          • 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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  • Yachen Zhu, PhD

  • Biostatistician
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  • RESEARCH FOCUS

    Applications of survival analysis, causal mediation analysis, moderation analysis, multilevel modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and Bayesian data analysis to alcohol epidemiology; risk relationships between alcohol use and chronic health conditions; health disparity research.

FEATURED PROJECTS

A Microsimulation of Alcohol Control Interventions to Advance Health Equity and Reverse the Current Decrease in Life Expectancy in the US

Biostatistician

Secondhand Harms from Alcohol & Drugs: Impacts on Families and Communities across the US

Biostatistician

High-Intensity Drinking over the Life Course

Biostatistician

Quality of Alcohol-Related Care Received: Missed Opportunities, Disparities and Impacts of Health Reform

Biostatistician


PUBLICATIONS

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Differential associations of alcohol use with ischemic heart disease mortality by socioeconomic status in the US, 1997-2018


JAMA Network Open, 2024

Alcoholic beverage types consumed by population subgroups in the United States: Implications for alcohol policy to address health disparities


Drug and Alcohol Review, 2024

Inequities in alcohol screening of primary care patients with chronic conditions


American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2024

Does cannabis substitute or complement alcohol after recreational cannabis legalization in the Washington State? A three-level mixed-effects modeling


Addictive Behaviors, 2024

Behavioral risk factors and socioeconomic inequalities in ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States: A causal mediation analysis using record linkage data


PLOS Medicine, 2024

The risk relationships between alcohol consumption, alcohol use disorder and alcohol use disorder mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis


Addiction, 2024

Associations between simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis and cannabis-related problems in 2014-2016: Evidence from the Washington panel survey


Journal of Cannabis Research, 2024

Can lifestyle factors explain racial and ethnic inequalities in all-cause mortality among US adults?


BMC Public Health, 2023

Life-course accumulated cannabis use and recent cannabis-related problems in the Washington panel survey


Addictive Behaviors, 2023

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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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