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 […]
PRC Emeritus/a Researchers
Harold Holder, Ph.D.
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 […]
Marcia Russell, PhD
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 […]
