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
BA (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:
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000 (Co-investigator)
- Drinking Patterns & Ethnicity: Impact on Mortality Risks (Principal Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Principal Investigator)
- Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: Secondary Data Analysis (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators (Co-Investigator)
- Quality Substitution Among Heavy and AUD Drinkers and Alcohol Tax Policy (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- When Does Pressure Facilitate Help Seeking? 25 Year Trends and Correlates (Co-Investigator)
Recently/Selected Completed Projects:
- 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)
- Improving Alcohol Consumption Self-report Measurement (Principal Investigator)
- Population Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, India (Principal Investigator)
Awards & Activities:
- Member, Extramural Advisory Board, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2004-Present.)
- American Public Health Association, Governing Council Member (2007- Present.)
- 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)
- 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)
Selected Research Publications:
Midanik, L T, Greenfield, T. K. (In Press) 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.
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.
Greenfield, T. K., Stoneking, B. C., Sundby, E., Humphreys, K., & Bond, J. (2008) A randomized trial of a mental health consumer-managed alternative civil commitment. Am. J. Community Psychol., 42(2-Jan), 135-44.
Rehm, J., & Greenfield, T. K. (2008) Public alcohol policy: current directions and new opportunities. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 83(4), 640-43.
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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