Seminar Focuses on Social Networks and Adolescent Alcohol Use

"The Impact of Peer Social Networks on Adolescent Alcohol Use Initiation" is the topic of a seminar hosted by the Department of Population Health Sciences on September 27.

The hour-long seminar, which takes place at noon in Room 1309 of the Health Sciences Learning Center, will be presented by Dr. Marlon Mundt, assistant scientist in the Department of Family Medicine.

Mundt, a biostatistician and health economist, is the principal investigator on a five-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism titled "Economic Evaluation of Adolescent Alcohol Use and the Impact of Social Networks."

Mundt has published articles in cost-effectiveness analysis, benefit-cost analysis, cost-of-illness, efficacy of intervention, and health promotion and preventive services. He was the biostatistician of a study that showed physician intervention was effective in reducing alcohol use among high-risk college drinkers.

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