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The Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice is committed to preventing excessive alcohol use and underage drinking by creating more knowledgeable and connected communities across the nation.
With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Alcohol Program, we use alcohol science to create more knowledgeable and connected communities across the nation.
We do this through strategic partnerships, training and technical assistance, translational tools, and by supporting states and communities working toward effective strategies.
We build the capacity of communities to use alcohol science for healthy, safe, and equitable neighborhoods through evidence-based population-level strategies.
We envision a world of healthy, safe and equitable neighborhoods.
Our partners promote alcohol science and help disseminate resources addressing excessive alcohol use. The Council includes a diverse set of voices committed to preventing excessive alcohol use, with representatives from public health, the medical community, local government associations, prevention, enforcement, and regulatory organizations, along with legal alcohol policy stakeholders.
Director
Boston, MA
Liz Parsons has worked in the youth and community health field for 20 years, specializing in youth substance use prevention for the last 14 years. She has led local youth substance use prevention initiatives in several communities in Massachusetts and was a leader in the public health response to Massachusetts’ review of alcohol laws. Liz has presented about local and state alcohol policy implementation at local and national forums. She has especially enjoyed supporting public health professionals in their efforts to increase awareness and knowledge about impactful alcohol policies and connecting alcohol policy research with practitioner efforts in communities. Liz has a master of education from the University of Bristol, UK.
Fellow
Atlanta, GA
Snigdha is a Fellow currently supporting the Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice. She is an early-career alcohol and other drug policy researcher with expertise in policy evaluation and statistical modeling methods. Broadly, Snigdha studies the impacts of structural determinants on inequities in substance use-related harms. She is a current PhD student at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Snigdha also holds an MPH in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Neuroscience from Duke University.
Project Manager
Omaha, NE
Erin Ayad has more than 20 years of experience in the public health field, focusing on child health initiatives, injury prevention, and preventing alcohol-related harms. Erin began working with Project Extra Mile and a local coalition to prevent underage alcohol use in Nebraska in 2002 and most recently served as the associate director for the organization. She received a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Director
Boston, MA
Liz Parsons has worked in the youth and community health field for 20 years, specializing in youth substance use prevention for the last 14 years. She has led local youth substance use prevention initiatives in several communities in Massachusetts and was a leader in the public health response to Massachusetts’ review of alcohol laws. Liz has presented about local and state alcohol policy implementation at local and national forums. She has especially enjoyed supporting public health professionals in their efforts to increase awareness and knowledge about impactful alcohol policies and connecting alcohol policy research with practitioner efforts in communities. Liz has a master of education from the University of Bristol, UK.
Fellow
Atlanta, GA
Snigdha is a Fellow currently supporting the Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice. She is an early-career alcohol and other drug policy researcher with expertise in policy evaluation and statistical modeling methods. Broadly, Snigdha studies the impacts of structural determinants on inequities in substance use-related harms. She is a current PhD student at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Snigdha also holds an MPH in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Neuroscience from Duke University.
Project Manager
Omaha, NE
Erin Ayad has more than 20 years of experience in the public health field, focusing on child health initiatives, injury prevention, and preventing alcohol-related harms. Erin began working with Project Extra Mile and a local coalition to prevent underage alcohol use in Nebraska in 2002 and most recently served as the associate director for the organization. She received a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Project Coordinator
Boston, MA
Hannah Martuscello was born and raised in Dover, NH, and is a former youth advocate with Dover Youth to Youth. During her 10 years in the program, Hannah presented across the state and country at conferences, including the National Prevention Network Conference and the AP18 Conference. Her main passion is working toward policy changes at the state and local levels. As a youth leader, Hannah worked with her peers to pass the tobacco 21 ordinance. For her efforts in tobacco use prevention, Hannah was named the Eastern Regional Youth Advocate of the Year by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in 2017. Hannah graduated from the University of Arizona with an English degree and a minor in Japanese language.
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