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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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  • Yu Ye, MA

  • Biostatistician

  • Email

    yye@arg.org
  • Phone

    510-898-5856
  • Expertise

    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
Current Projects
  • National Alcohol Research Center Statistical and Data Services Core (A Center Core Component) (Biostatistician)
  • Understanding longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 pandemic outcomes and alcohol use and problems (Biostatistician)
  • A Microsimulation of Alcohol Control Interventions to Advance Health Equity and Reverse the Current Decrease in Life Expectancy in the US (Biostatistician)
Completed Projects
  • 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)
  • 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)
Selected Publications
  • Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Andreuccetti G., Stockwell T., Vallance K., Chow C., Brubacher J.R. (2017). Risk of injury from alcohol, marijuana and other drug use among emergency department patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 174 121-127 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
  • 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
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Bond, J., Borge,s G., Monteiro, M., Chou, P., Hao, W. (2015). Alcohol attributable fraction for injury morbidity from the dose-response relationship of acute alcohol consumption: emergency department data from 18 countries. Addiction, 110 (11) 1724-1732 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
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y. (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, 39 (9) 1698-1704. Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y. (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, 151 258-261 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Bond J., Borges G., Monteiro M. (2015). Relative risk of injury from acute alcohol consumption: modeling the dose-response relationship in emergency department data from 18 countries. Addiction, 110 (2) 279-88 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y. (2014). 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, 38 1094-1099 Abstract or Full Text
  • Andreuccetti G., Carvalho H.B., Cherpitel C.J., Ye Y., Leyton V. (2014). [Letter] Rethinking the debate on drinking and driving laws in Sao Paulo: response to the letter by Volpe and Fantoni.. Addiction, Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Bond, J., Stockwell, T., Vallance, K., Martin, G., Brubacher, J., MacPherson, A. (2014). Risk of injury from drinking: the difference which study design makes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38 235-240 Abstract or Full Text
  • Greenfield T.K., Ye Y., Bond J., Kerr W.C., Nayak M.B., Kaskutas L.A., Anton, R.E., Litten, R.Z., Kranzler, H.R. (2014). Risks of alcohol use disorders related to drinking patterns in the US general population. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75 (2) 319-327 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
  • Ye Y, Bond J, Cherpitel CJ, Borges G, Monteiro M, Vallance K. (2013). Evaluating recall bias in a case-crossover design estimating risk of injury related to alcohol: data from six countries. Drug and Alcohol Review, 32 (5) 512-518 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye Y, Bond J, Cherpitel CJ, Stockwell T, Macdonald S, Rehm J. (2013). Risk of injury due to alcohol: evaluating potential bias using the case-crossover usual-frequency method. Epidemiology, 24 (2) 240-243 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye, Y., Bond J., Schmidt, L.A., Mulia, N., & Tam, T.W. (2012). Towards a better understanding of when to apply propensity scoring: a comparison with conventional regression in ethnic disparities research. Annals of Epidemiology, 22 (10) 691-697 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J. & Ye, Y. (2012). Multi-level analysis of alcohol-related injury and drinking pattern: emergency department data from 19 countries. Addiction, 107 1263-1272 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cherpitel, C.J., Ye, Y., Bond, J., Room, R., & Borges, G. (2012). Attribution of alcohol to violence-related injury: self and others drinking in the event. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73 (2) 227-287 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye, Y. & Kerr, W. C. (2011). Alcohol and liver cirrhosis mortality: comparison of methods for the analyses of time-series panel data models in the US. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 35 (1) 108-115 Abstract or Full Text
  • Borges, G., Ye, Y., Cherpitel, C. J., Bond, J., Cremonte, M., Moskalewicz, J., Swiatkiewicz, G., & Rubio-Stipec, M. (2010). The dimensionality of alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption in a cross-national perspective. Addiction, 105 (2) 240-254 Abstract or Full Text
  • Kerr, W. C. & Ye, Y. (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, 71 515-525 Abstract or Full Text
  • Ye, Y., Kaskutas, & L.A. (2009). Using propensity scores to adjust for selection bias when assessing the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous in observational studies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 104 56-64 Abstract or Full Text
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