# Environmental Approaches to Prevention

> **NIH NIH P60** · PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION · 2022 · $1,820,605

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Prevention Research Center (PRC), a division of Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), was formed in
October 1983 around the "Environmental Approaches to Prevention" Research Center grant, selected by peer review as
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's (NIAAA's) national Center for prevention research. The goals
of the Center are: (1) to undertake innovative basic research that contributes to the development of cost-effective
environmental prevention programs and policies at the local, state, and national levels; (2) to undertake research of
applied and practical importance to inform policies and programs to prevent alcohol-related problems, especially in the
area of environmental factors; (3) to summarize and synthesize new and existing knowledge about prevention theories,
policies, and programs, and to disseminate this information to professional, academic, and community audiences; and (4)
to provide multidisciplinary training and research opportunities for post-doctoral fellows and other early investigators.
We take a multidisciplinary approach to prevention research that emphasizes integration across theories from the
biological to the behavioral and social sciences to enhance our understanding of the causal impacts of drinking
environments on drinking patterns and problems. Research we are proposing for the renewal of the Center continues this
approach, building upon extensive work conducted among cities in California in the previous rounds, and continuing to
focus on the micro- and macro-ecological contexts of alcohol use. We will consider the social and situational conditions
that affect early initiation of underage alcohol use, intoxication, and progression to heavier drinking and related problems
(Component #3). Identification of these conditions will improve our understanding of how micro-environments affect
early developmental trajectories and guide us toward effective preventive interventions to reduce underage alcohol use.
We will examine young adult drinking patterns and problems in large Hispanic/Latino communities situated along the
California-Mexico border and some distance away in order to assess how macro- and micro-ecological differences in
access to alcohol affect drinking and problems in this subpopulation (Component #4). This study will illuminate sources
of alcohol-related health disparities that arise among Hispanic/Latino drinkers and help us identify those unique drinking
contexts and situations for which effective preventive interventions should be designed. We will investigate the dynamic
inter-relationships of alcohol use, problems, and AUD symptomatology among heavy drinkers in order to establish how
micro-ecological contexts of heavy drinking might be manipulated to reduce the large number of problems that arise in
communities in association with AUDs (Component #5). For the first time in any environmental research program we
will integrate theoretical models and empi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10318525
- **Project number:** 5P60AA006282-40
- **Recipient organization:** PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
- **Principal Investigator:** PAUL J GRUENEWALD
- **Activity code:** P60 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,820,605
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1983-09-29 → 2022-12-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10318525

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10318525, Environmental Approaches to Prevention (5P60AA006282-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10318525. Licensed CC0.

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