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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
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