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  • About PRC
    • Mission
    • Staff and Fellows
    • Post-Doc Program
    • Scientific Advisory Council
    • Emeriti
    • Historical Overview
  • Research
    • Research Projects
    • The Center Grant
    • Publications
    • Posters
  • Policy Studies
    • Minimum Legal Drinking Age
    • State Alcohol Controls
    • Retail Availability of Alcohol
    • Regulating Youth Access to Alcohol
    • Smokefree Bar Policy Compliance
    • Regulating Youth Access to Tobacco
    • Legalization of Marijuana
    • Role of School-Based Health Centers
  • Community Action
    • Media Releases
    • Downloadable Resources
    • Strategies
    • Useful Links

PRC Emeritus/a Researchers

Genevieve M. Ames, Ph.D.

June 21, 2019

One of the founders of Prevention Research Center, Dr. Ames was Associate Director and Senior Scientist at the Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Professor in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and affiliate Professor in the Medical Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. She served as Principal […]

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Harold Holder, Ph.D.

June 20, 2019

Dr. Holder is a distinguished Senior Research Scientist and the former Director of the Prevention Research Center (PRC) of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, California. PRC is a national research center sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health. With a doctorate in communication science […]

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Marcia Russell, PhD

June 19, 2019

Dr. Russell has been at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation since 1999. A chronic disease epidemiologist trained at Yale University, she did early work on alcohol-related birth defects, now considered part of the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and developed a brief questionnaire, the TWEAK, to screen for risk drinking in pregnant women. She […]

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About PRC

  • Introduction
  • Mission
  • Staff and Fellows
  • Post-Doc Program
  • Scientific Advisory Council
  • Emeriti
  • Historical Overview

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