Wendy Slutske, PhD
Congratulations to Wendy Slutske, PhD (Professor) on being awarded a three-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) totaling $944,664. The study, “Genes, neighborhoods, and alcohol misuse from adolescence to mid-adulthood in the Add Health Study,” looks to better understand the link between the neighborhood in which one lives and alcohol involvement over the life course. Results may lead to developing neighborhood-level prevention and treatment interventions. Slutske will serve as principal investigator and is joined by colleagues from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and the University of Wisconsin Initiative in Social Genomics.
Slutske is an addictions researcher whose research was originally focused on risk and protective factors for alcohol use and disorder but has since broadened her scope to include the misuse of tobacco, cannabis, illicit drugs, and disordered gambling. Slutske has published many high-impact papers based on secondary data analyses of large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s mission is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the adverse effects of alcohol on health and well-being and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems including alcohol use disorder across the lifespan.
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year.
Published: September 2024