Who Runs the NAS?
Why are we doing this survey?
History of the nas
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Priscilla Martinez, PhD is the current study director. Priscilla has experience in survey design and has taught survey methods at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She conducted previous work to test the feasibility of dried blood spot collection in a national survey and ways to improve the participation of minoritized people in national surveys that collect biological samples. She is co-director of the NAS Project that oversees the implementation of the NAS with the principal Investigator of the Center, William C. Kerr, PhD. Kerr has overseen the implementation of several large surveys of alcohol and drug use in the US and Washington state and has expertise in alcohol measurement and questionnaire development.
The Alcohol Research Group
For over sixty years, the Alcohol Research Group (ARG) has been actively engaged in critically needed alcohol- and other drug-related public health research. We study alcohol and other drug use and how they affect health. We also study how other factors at many levels interact with alcohol use to impact health. This includes such factors at the individual level, such as gender, race and ethnicity, marital status, sexual identity, socioeconomic status; the interpersonal level, such as experiencing discrimination or trauma; and at the community and environmental level, such as neighborhood characteristics and local, state, and national policies.
ARG is a program of the Public Health Institute (PHI), an independent nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting health, well-being, and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
The National Alcohol Research Center
The National Alcohol Survey (NAS) is part of the National Alcohol Research Center, which is operated by the Alcohol Research Group. The Center focuses its work on alcohol-related disparities and inequities. Its work recognizes the rising economic inequality in the US, the increasing disparities in alcohol-related problems, health and other outcomes, and the considerable gaps in knowledge about alcohol use and related problems in certain groups, and the inequitable distribution of knowledge about the health harms from using alcohol.
Funding for the National Alcohol Survey is provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under award number P50AA005595 (W.C. Kerr, PI) at the National Institutes of Health.