Paul J. Gruenewald, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist

The Geography of Availability
Availability Transitions in College Drinking
Alcohol Outlets and Violence
Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP)

Dr. Paul J. Gruenewald has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at PRC since 1987. His interests center upon studies of the social, economic, and physical availability of alcohol, alcohol use, and alcohol-related problems. Additional foci of his work include mathematical and statistical models of alcohol use and related problems, the development of evaluation methodologies appropriate to community-based evaluations of preventive interventions, and the environmental prevention of violence. His educational background includes extensive training in statistical design and methods, statistical analysis, and evaluation research applied to prevention science. He has been a Principal or Co-Investigator on 11 funded research projects, was previous Director of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) Survey Research Center, and is currently Director of the Spatial Systems Group (SSG). SSG is a coordinating center for PIRE-wide work using Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Statistical Systems, and Spatial Dynamic Models. Dr. Gruenewald is also Principal Investigator on a neighborhood-based efficacy trial to reduce alcohol-related violence among minority youth (Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project), a study of transitions in access to alcohol among college youth (Availability Transitions and College Drinking), and an examination of the spatial distributions of availability and use in California (The Geography of Availability and Alcohol Problems).

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