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CDC Alcohol Team

The Alcohol Team is located in the CDC’s Emerging Investigations and Analytic Methods Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Established in 2001, the Alcohol Team engages in public health surveillance of alcohol-related conditions and alcohol use, particularly binge drinking and underage drinking. Research conducted by the team includes studies on binge drinking episodes among adults, binge drinking and unintended pregnancy, underage drinking and associated health risk factors, and deaths from excessive alcohol consumption.

The Alcohol Team is using the Guide to Community Preventive Services systematic reviews of population-based interventions to help prevent excessive alcohol consumption and its related harms. In addition, the Alcohol Team has helped to develop and implement new alcohol questions for CDC public health surveillance systems, including the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

The Alcohol Team is helping to build state public health capacity in alcohol epidemiology. State alcohol epidemiologists are working with senior chronic disease and injury epidemiologists, as well as state substance abuse programs, to assess alcohol use and alcohol-related conditions within their respective locations.

The Team also supports the Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) software that allows users to estimate alcohol-related health impacts, including deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) due to excessive alcohol use. This project has been supported by a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Page last reviewed: August 6, 2008
Page last modified: August 6, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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