Alcohol continues to be a central contributor to morbidity and mortality in the United States, and alcohol use is substantially decreasing among U.S. adolescents. Yet alcohol use has been accelerating for those adolescents as they age into adulthood for the past two decades, leading to a total population increase in alcohol consumption among adults in mid-life for the past 20 years. These increases are particularly concentrated among women with the highest levels of income, education, and occupational prestige. Understanding these patterns and unpacking how and why these changes occurring, and what these changes portend for public health in the decades to come, is critical for improving the population’s health.
About the presenter:
Katherine M. Keyes is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Katherine’s research focuses on psychiatric and substance use epidemiology across the life course, including early and cross-generational origins of child and adult health and cohort effects on substance use, mental health, and injury outcomes including suicide and overdose. She is particularly focused on methodological challenges in estimating age, period, and cohort effects, as well as using mathematical agent-based and other simulation models to inform public health and policy interventions.
She is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and two textbooks published by Oxford University Press: “Epidemiology Matters: A New Introduction to Methodological Foundation”, published in 2014, and “Population Health Science” published in 2016. Her work is funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institution of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Mental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Columbia University.
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