# Alcohol Prevention Research on Violence, Equity, and Novel Techniques (A-PREVENT) Training Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $209,145

## Abstract

PROJECT ABSTRACT
Alcohol misuse is a significant public health issue leading to serious consequences including alcohol use
disorder and numerous alcohol-related morbidities. Research has linked increasing levels of alcohol
consumption to more than 60 disease conditions. Alcohol consumption is also associated with a broad range of
adverse health and social consequences one of which is interpersonal violence. There are also notable alcohol
and violence-related health disparities among individuals from minoritized groups, distinguished by race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, refugee status, and intersectionality. To promote health equity,
interventions should target multiple levels of the social ecology as inequities often originate from higher-level
societal constructs, such as systemic oppression and social determinants; however, most alcohol and violence
prevention studies have targeted one level; seldom is there a focus beyond the individual or on specific health
disparity groups. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism prioritizes addressing alcohol-related
health disparities, underscoring the immediate need to train a new wave of prevention scientists. These
experts should be adept at developing interventions that span various levels of the social ecology and target
populations most vulnerable. Their training should embody a holistic public health perspective, ensuring they
can define problems, pinpoint risk factors, devise prevention measures, roll out strategies on a broad scale,
and assess impact. This calls for an interdisciplinary training approach focused on the development and testing
of multilevel interventions and with an examination of effects across intersecting identities. Supported by 20
faculty, the proposed comprehensive pre-doctoral training program (A-PREVENT) encompasses seven training
components (coursework, independent research projects, conferences, T32 meetings, community-engaged
research, lecture series, and a F31 independent research project) providing intensive and comprehensive
research training in three areas: 1) health equity; 2) designing and implementing multi-level interventions to
address the intersection of alcohol and violence prevention as well as its associated co-morbidities; and 3)
innovative methodological and statistical approaches to assess efficacy across multiple levels of the social-
ecological model. A-PREVENT will equip a diverse cohort of new prevention researchers with the
methodological acumen capable of transformative advances in health equity, and enabling the formulation of
solutions that are both pragmatic and pioneering in addressing health disparities. This advanced, integrated,
and innovative training program will not only diversify the biomedical research workforce with our trainees from
diverse backgrounds, but also prepare them to develop and evaluate multi-level preventive interventions that
address significant health disparities. We are seeking 6 fu...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10976821
- **Project number:** 1T32AA031818-01
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Amanda Katherine Gilmore
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $209,145
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-08-15 → 2029-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10976821

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10976821, Alcohol Prevention Research on Violence, Equity, and Novel Techniques (A-PREVENT) Training Program (1T32AA031818-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-12 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10976821. Licensed CC0.

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