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            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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            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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  • Yu Ye, MA

  • Biostatistician
  • yye@arg.org 510-898-5856
  • RESEARCH FOCUS

    Statistical modeling of multilevel, longitudinal and panel data, evaluation of causality and selection bias, relative risk and attributable fraction estimates of acute event such as injury

Areas of Expertise

Epidemiology
Methodology

FEATURED PROJECTS

National Alcohol Research Center Statistical and Data Services Core (A Center Core Component)

Biostatistician

Cross-national Analysis of Alcohol and Injury

Biostatistician

Racial Disparities in Access to Appropriate Alcohol Treatment Services

Biostatistician

Epidemiology of Drinking and Disorders in Border vs. Non-Border Contexts

Biostatistician

Screening and Brief Intervention in the Emergency Department among Mexican-origin Young Adults

Biostatistician

Effects of Disadvantage and Protective Resources on Alcohol-Related Disparities

Biostatistician

Effects of Spirits Privatization on Alcohol Prices and Alcohol-Related Harms

Biostatistician

Inter-relationships Between Life-course Alcohol Patterns and Health Conditions

Biostatistician

Understanding longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 pandemic outcomes and alcohol use and problems

Biostatistician

Disaggregating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to identify mechanisms of adolescent suicide risk

Biostatistician

Mechanisms and Treatment Development for Pancreatitis Resulting from Alcohol Abuse and Smoking

Biostatistician

Community College Smokefree Policies: Disparities, Contexts and Strategies

Biostatistician

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

Biostatistician


PUBLICATIONS

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Risk of injury from alcohol, marijuana and other drug use among emergency department patients


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2017

Estimated increase in cross-border purchases by Washington residents following liquor privatization and implications for alcohol consumption trends


Addiction, 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, 2016

Alcohol attributable fraction for injury morbidity from the dose-response relationship of acute alcohol consumption: emergency department data from 18 countries


Addiction, 2015

Racial/ethnic disparities in the risk of injury related to the frequency of heavy drinking occasions


Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2015

Risky drinking, alcohol use disorders and health services utilization in the U.S. general population: data from the 2005 and 2010 National Alcohol Surveys


Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2015

Performance of the RAPS4/RAPS4-QF for DSM-5 compared to DSM-IV alcohol use disorders in the general population: data from the 2000-2010 National Alcohol Surveys


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2015

Relative risk of injury from acute alcohol consumption: modeling the dose-response relationship in emergency department data from 18 countries


Addiction, 2015

Differences in risk of injury in the U.S. general population by injury treatment type: data from the 1995-2010 National Alcohol Surveys


Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014

[Letter] Rethinking the debate on drinking and driving laws in Sao Paulo: response to the letter by Volpe and Fantoni.


Addiction, 2014

Risk of injury from drinking: the difference which study design makes


Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014

Risks of alcohol use disorders related to drinking patterns in the US general population


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2014

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


Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2014

Evaluating recall bias in a case-crossover design estimating risk of injury related to alcohol: data from six countries


Drug and Alcohol Review, 2013

Risk of injury due to alcohol: evaluating potential bias using the case-crossover usual-frequency method


Epidemiology, 2013

Towards a better understanding of when to apply propensity scoring: a comparison with conventional regression in ethnic disparities research


Annals of Epidemiology, 2012

Multi-level analysis of alcohol-related injury and drinking pattern: emergency department data from 19 countries


Addiction, 2012

Attribution of alcohol to violence-related injury: self and others drinking in the event


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2012

Alcohol and liver cirrhosis mortality: comparison of methods for the analyses of time-series panel data models in the US


Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2011

The dimensionality of alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption in a cross-national perspective


Addiction, 2010

Relationship of life-course drinking patterns to diabetes, heart problems, and hypertension among those 40 and older in the U.S. National Alcohol Survey


ournal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2010

Using propensity scores to adjust for selection bias when assessing the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous in observational studies


Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2009

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