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About Our Program
Our mission
To strengthen the scientific foundation for
preventing excessive alcohol consumption.
Our goals:
- Improve public health surveillance on excessive alcohol use,
particularly binge and underage drinking, and related health outcomes.
- Increase applied public health research on alcohol-related health
impacts and population-based strategies to prevent excessive alcohol
consumption.
- Build state public health capacity in alcohol epidemiology.
- Provide national public health leadership for preventing excessive
drinking.
Our Work
Established in 2001, the Alcohol Team is located in CDC’s
Division of Adult and Community
Health in the National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Public Health Surveillance The Alcohol Team uses CDC public health surveillance systems, including the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the
Youth Risk Behavior Survey,
to monitor trends in binge and underage drinking, and to assess related
health impacts. With generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the Team also developed the Alcohol-Related Disease
Impact (ARDI) software, which allows users to estimate deaths and Years
of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) due to excessive alcohol use.
Alcohol Epidemiology Studies The Alcohol Team conducts applied public health research to assess the
relationship between excessive drinking and other health and social
outcomes, including unintended pregnancy, youth risk behaviors (e.g., sexual
activity), and alcohol-impaired driving. The Alcohol Team is also working
with the CDC’s Community Guide
Branch to systematically review the effectiveness of population-based
interventions to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and related health
outcomes for publication in the
Alcohol
Section of the Guide to Community Preventive Services.
State Public Health Capacity The Alcohol Team is building state public health capacity in alcohol
epidemiology, and providing technical assistance to other state-based
epidemiologists as well. The work being done by these epidemiologists is
drawing attention to excessive drinking as a key health risk behavior, and
supporting the implementation of effective policy and environmental
strategies to prevent it.
National Leadership and Partnership The Alcohol Team participates actively on the Interagency Coordinating
Committee to Prevent Underage Drinking (ICCPUD), and works with state and
local public health and substance abuse agencies to strengthen the science
base for preventing excessive alcohol consumption and related health
outcomes.
Page last reviewed:
October 24, 2008
Page last modified: November 12, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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