Staff
Research Staff
Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD
Center Director and Scientific Director; Senior Scientist
Email: Phone: 510-597-3440
Education:
PhD Clinical Psychology, The University of Michigan
SM Space Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS (Hons) Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Primary Research Area:
The epidemiology of alcohol use and problems, alcohol policy studies, alcohol-related problem and consumption measurement, drinking patterns and mortality, cultural and ethnic variations in drinking behavior; services research and consumer satisfaction.
Current Projects:
- Effects of Disadvantage and Protective Resources on Alcohol-Related Disparities (Senior Scientist)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center ()
- Epidemiology of Drinking and Disorders in Border vs. Non-Border Contexts (Co-Investigator)
Recently/Selected Completed Projects:
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Co-investigator)
- Alcohol in Mexican-Origin Groups: U.S. and Mexican Surveys, (Initial Principal Investigator)
- Alcohol- and Drug-Attributable Burden of Disease and Injury in the U.S. (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Principal Investigator)
- Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis ()
- Improving Alcohol Consumption Self-report Measurement (Principal Investigator)
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators ()
- Population Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, India (Principal Investigator)
- Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy ()
- When Does Pressure Facilitate Help Seeking? 25 Year Trends and Correlates (Co-Investigator)
Awards & Activities:
- Member, Extramural Advisory Board, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2004-Present.)
- American Public Health Association, Governing Council Member (2007- 2011); ATOD Section Leadership Award (2008)
- Assistant Editor: Addiction (1998- Present.)
- Editorial Board Member: Health & Quality of Life Outcomes (2002- Present.); Alcohol Research & Health (2002-2006)
- Field Editor, Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) (2011-Present)
- Member, External Review Group, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2006)
- Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol: Vice President (2001-2003), Secretary (2003-2006)
- Editorial Advisory Board: American Journal of Public Health
- Associate Editor: Alcohol & Alcoholism
Selected Research Publications:
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Ye, Y. and Rehm, J. (2011) Racial and ethnic differences in all-cause mortality risk according to consumption patterns in the National Alcohol Surveys. American Journal of Epidemiology, 174(7), 769-778.
Greenfield, T.K., Nayak, M.B., Bond, J., Patel, V., Trocki, K. & Pillai, A. (2010) Validating alcohol use measures among male drinkers in Goa: implications for research on alcohol, sexual risk, and HIV in India. AIDS and Behavior, 14, S84-93.
Midanik, L T, Greenfield, T. K. (2010) Reports of alcohol-related problems and alcohol dependence for demographic subgroups using interactive voice response (IVR) versus telephone (CATI) surveys: The 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29(4), 392-398.
Greenfield, T. K., Kerr, W. C., Bond, J., Ye, Y., & Stockwell, T. (2009) Improving graduated frequencies alcohol measures for monitoring consumption patterns: results from US and Australian national surveys and a US diary validity study. Contemporary Drug Problems, 36(3/4), 705-733.
Greenfield, T. K., Harford, T C, Tam, T. W. (2009) Modeling cognitive influences on drinking and alcohol problems. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70(1), 78-86.
Greenfield, T.K., Yu, Y., Kerr, W.C., Bond, J., Rehm, J., and Giesbrecht, N. (2009) Externalities from alcohol consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: Implications for policy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 6(12), 3205-3224.
Kerr, W. C., Greenfield, T. K., Bond, J., Ye, Y., & Rehm, J. (2009) Age-period-cohort modeling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: divergence in younger and older adult trends. Addiction, 104(1), 27-27.
Nyaronga, D., Greenfield, T. K., & McDaniel, P. A (2009) Drinking context and drinking problems among black, white and Hispanic men and women in the 1984, 1995 and 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Surveys. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70(1), 16-26.
Greenfield, T. K., Kerr, W. C. (2008) Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities. Addiction, 103(7), 1082-99.
Sanda, M. G., Dunn, R. L., Michalski, J., Sandler, H. M., Northouse, L., Hembroff, L., Lin, X., Greenfield, T. K., Litwin, M. S., Saigal, C. S., Mahadevan, A., Klein, E., Kibel, A., Pisters, L. L., Kuban, D., Kaplan, I., Wood, D., Ciezki, (2008) Quality of life and satisfaction with outcome among prostate-cancer survivors and their partners. The New England Journal of Medicine, 358(12), 36-47.
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