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| Genevieve Ames, Ph.D. |
Medical Anthropology |
| Culture and drinking; workplace drinking models; work and family; social control theory; integrating methods |
| Genevieve Ames, Ph.D. received her doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley. Her current positions are Associate Director/Senior Scientist at the Prevention Research Center and Adj. Professor in the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Dr. Ames has long standing research interests in cultural and environmental influences on problematic drinking in the context of the family, the workplace, and among women. She has conducted studies of and is widely published on occupational drinking in a variety of white and blue collar work settings, the impact of military work and culture on substance use among men and women in the military, drinking and high risk sexual behavior among young adults, gender and work, family response to maternal alcoholism, and indicators of alcohol problems among women. She continues to develop public health-oriented models for research and intervention of substance abuse problems in the workplace, and integration of ethnographic, archival and survey methods. |
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| Carol Cunradi, M.P.H., Ph.D. |
Epidemiology |
| Intimate partner violence; social disparities in health; neighborhood social disorganization; religiosity; occupational studies |
| Carol Cunradi is a Senior Research Scientist at PIRE. She joined PRC in 1999. Her main research interests are intimate partner violence, health disparities, substance use, and occupational health. Carol is the Principal Investigator of an NIAAA-funded R01 study, "Neighborhoods, Alcohol Outlets and Intimate Partner Violence." The goal of this 4-year multilevel study is to gain a deeper understanding of how environmental factors, such as alcohol outlet density and neighborhood social disorganization, along with individual- and couple-level characteristics, increase risk for intimate partner violence. Carol is the co-PI (Dr. Genevieve Ames, PI) of the NIAAA-funded R01 study, "Partner Violence: Roles of Work, Job Stress & Drinking." The goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of how individual and environmental factors influence the occurrence of intimate partner violence among a sample of blue-collar workers and their partners. Carol was the PI of a NIDA-funded R03 study of neighborhood, drug use and intimate partner violence among male and female participants in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. In addition, Carol was the PI of a study examining the context and consequences of smoking among a cohort of municipal bus drivers, funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Carol’s training has focused on social epidemiology. She received both her Master of Public Health degree (Epidemiology/Biostatistics, 1995) and her Ph.D. (Epidemiology, 1999) at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Carol was awarded a one-year NIAAA pre-doctoral fellowship in alcohol epidemiology under the mentorship of Dr. Raul Caetano. She is a member of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the American Public Health Association. |
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| Michael Duke, Ph.D. |
Social Anthropology |
| HIV risk behaviors; migration; substance misuse; Hispanic/ Latino populations; qualitative research methods; occupational culture |
| Michael Duke, Research Scientist, received his PhD. in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1996). His current research focuses on drinking and HIV risk among migrant populations in the US, and the social and public health effects of out-migration on communities in rural Mexico. He has also carried out extensive research on injection drug use and HIV risk in the United States and the People’s Republic of China. At PRC, Dr. Duke was Project Director for a study on high-risk sexual behavior in the US Navy and is currently the ethnographic manager for a project on drinking and intimate partner violence among construction workers and the ethnographer for a study on problem drinking among restaurant workers. Dr. Duke is an expert on qualitative field methods and on integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods. |
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| Joel Grube, Ph.D. |
Social Psychology |
| Social psychology of drinking; drug use; other problem behaviors among adolescents |
| Joel W. Grube, Ph.D., received his doctorate in psychology from Washington State University in 1979. He is currently Director of the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, CA. His research focuses on social-psychological and environmental influences on problem behaviors among adolescents and young adults. His current projects include longitudinal studies on the effects of alcohol outlet density on underage drinking and drinking problems, the effects of alcohol advertising on the drinking beliefs and behaviors of children and adolescents, and the effects of exposure to sexuality in the media on adolescents’ sexual risk taking. |
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| Paul Gruenewald, Ph.D. |
Experimental Psychology/Cognition |
| Availability; drinking models; alcohol policies and regulations; ecological models; community interventions |
| Dr. Gruenewald's current work focuses upon the availability of alcohol through alcohol outlets and social settings and its impact upon drinking patterns, risks for drinking problems and alcohol-related violence among college students and populations of adults. In addition to his long-standing concern with the creation, implementation and evaluation of community-based alcohol prevention programs, his current research includes the development of mathematical models of alcohol use for the purpose of better understanding dynamic relationships between drinking patterns and problems, and the formulation of population level ecological models of drinking problems related to alcohol outlets. He is a leader in the application of spatial statistical models to social problems related to alcohol (e.g., drinking and driving, violence, child abuse and neglect, pedestrian injuries). Current policy studies include large scale econometric models of state-level data on alcohol control policies and regulations, alcohol sales, and related problems. |
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| Denise Herd, Ph.D. |
Medical Anthropology |
| Ethnic differences; media; community mobilization |
| Dr. Herd's research interests focus on images of alcohol and violence in rap music, activism in African American communities, drinking and drug use patterns and problems, and social movements. |
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| Brenda Miller, Ph.D. |
Criminal Justice |
| Family-based adolescent AOD prevention; young adult AOD prevention; family violence; women’s AOD problems; diffusion of research findings to policy and practice |
| Dr. Miller’s current work focuses on family-based AOD prevention trials for adolescents in both community and medical settings and young adult AOD prevention in club settings. She is also collaborating on research related to the diffusion of research findings that connects research, practice, and policy. These efforts are part of a cross-site research agenda that involve collaborations with other research centers both within and outside of PIRE. Her prior work includes research and publications on family violence and women’s AOD problems, violent victimization of women, and the impact of maternal AOD problems on their children. Her academic background is in criminal justice and she has research experience in conducting research within jails, prisons, and among correctional populations. Dr. Miller has extensive experience in administering large research facilities and working with state governments, foundations, and other policy-making bodies. Dr. Miller has worked extensively with faculty members to mentor them on their research skills and grantswriting. |
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| Roland Moore, Ph.D. |
Anthropology |
| Ethnography; policy analysis; tobacco research; occupational culture and substance use; ethnicity and substance use |
| Dr. Roland Moore is a Research Anthropologist interested in relationships between employment in different populations and their alcohol and tobacco use patterns and problems. He currently is principal investigator on two projects: one funded by the National Cancer Institute, an ethnographic study of tobacco use in California bars in which smoking has been banned and another funded by the University of California Office of the President, research on ethnicity and tobacco policy compliance in urban settings. He also is the ethnographic manager of a study of policy and drinking subcultures in the U.S. Navy. He has been funded by NIAAA to study drinking and employment among young Native American adults. His research sites have included a Greek village, a Native American reservation in the Southwest, California bars, a heavy machinery plant and U.S. military bases. Dr. Moore is an expert on anthropological field methods and computer-assisted ethnographic analytical techniques. |
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| Mallie Paschall, Ph.D. |
Epidemiology |
| Young adults; college students; heavy alcohol use; alcohol availability; preventive interventions |
| Dr. Paschall received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He is currently directing two NIAAA-sponsored studies on the etiology and prevention of heavy alcohol use among college students. He is analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to improve understanding of why college attendance is associated with heavy drinking in young adulthood, and he is evaluating an internet-based college alcohol education course. Over the next five years Dr. Paschall will be a co-investigator for an NIAAA-sponsored study based in Oregon to evaluate community interventions designed to reduce adolescents’ access to and consumption of alcohol. He will also work on an NIAAA-sponsored study involving 14 California universities to evaluate environmental prevention strategies aimed at reducing high-risk drinking among college students. |
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| Marcia Russell, Ph.D. |
Chronic Disease Epidemiology |
| Assessment and analysis of lifetime drinking patterns; relation of lifetime drinking patterns to chronic disease; prevention of alcohol-related health conditions; screening for risk drinking in vulnerable populations (i.e., pregnant women and women in their child-bearing years, persons with chronic hepatitis C infections, and DUI offenders) |
| Marcia Russell, Ph.D., is a chronic disease epidemiologist. She has conducted longitudinal research on the fetal alcohol syndrome and on the relation of stress and alcohol consumption to alcohol problems and high blood pressure in blacks and non-blacks. She also directed a study of factors influencing natural recovery or entry into treatment for alcoholism. Her work includes the development of a screen for risk drinking and alcohol problems, the TWEAK, and the Cognitive Lifetime Drinking History, a computer-assisted assessment of lifetime drinking patterns. She is currently investigating the relation of drinking patterns to guidelines for moderate drinking and the role of alcohol and drug use in the transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV). New projects include the analysis of lifetime drinking trajectories, particularly as they relate to coronary heart disease; screening for HCV in Mexican-American DUI offenders, and the establishment of a program of research on the natural history of chronic hepatitis C infection in a stably insured population. The latter is focused on the role of lifetime drinking patterns in the progression of liver disease, the extent to which alcohol drinking impairs response to antiviral treatment, and the efficacy of alcohol screening and treatment in patients newly diagnosed with HCV. |
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| Robert Saltz, Ph.D. |
Sociology |
| Organizational and community-level prevention interventions; college student drinking; responsible beverage service; evaluation designs; survey research; data collection in natural settings (i.e., bars) |
| Robert Saltz, Ph.D. (Sociology) is a Senior Scientist. Dr. Saltz’s own work has centered on ways in which drinking contexts may influence the risk of subsequent injury or death. He has conducted several studies on “responsible beverage service” programs that seek to have bar and restaurant personnel intervene to reduce the risk of intoxication or of driving while impaired. Other research projects have included drinking among college students, work-related drinking among public-sector employees, developing indicators of drinking problems among women, and the design and implementation of comprehensive community prevention interventions to reduce alcohol-involved trauma. He is currently conducting a randomized trial involving 14 California university campuses using an environmental risk management approach to prevention. |
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