Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD, MS
Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD, is an associate scientist at PHI's Alcohol Research Group. She examines how community and cultural determinants create racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in alcohol and drug use and consequences. More broadly, Karriker-Jaffe's work focuses on understanding the role of neighborhood, family and individual psychosocial factors on the development of health risk behaviors.
Karriker-Jaffe is also a lecturer in the Division of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health, where she teaches Introduction to Survey Research Methods.
She received the Research Society on Alcoholism's Junior Investigator Award (2010) and is a member of Delta Omega, the public health honor society.
Karriker-Jaffe completed her doctorate in health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Master of Science in communication from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Oklahoma.
Identifying Modifiable Influences on Alcohol Problems in High-Risk Neighborhoods
This study develops and tests a socioecological model of relapse and recovery from alcohol problems to describe how neighborhood, social network and individual factors independently and interactively predict relapse and recovery from alcohol problems and dependence.
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Outcomes: Moderators and Mediators
The study conducts a secondary analysis of data from the 2000 and 2005 National Alcohol Surveys (conducted by the Alcohol Research Group) linked with data from the 2000 US Census to examine whether, for whom and how neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with alcohol use and alcohol problems.
Pilot Studies: Pilot 2: Improving measures of alcohol dependence for general population studies
This pilot is examining symptom frequency, severity and impact to improve validity of dependence classification for young heavy drinkers, which will benefit screening and referral to services and help guide interventions.