HOP Faculty Members’ Article Featured in a Podcast for the American Journal of Public Health

An article by HOP faculty, Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, and Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, was featured on the monthly podcast for The American Journal of Public Health with Alfredo Morabia, M.D., Ph.D. The article, also co-authored by Melvin D. Livingston, Ph.D., was published in the September edition of the American Journal of Public Health and examines the effects of a 2009 increase in alcohol taxes in Illinois on alcohol-related fatal motor vehicle crashes.

Morabia is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health, as well as a professor of clinical epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.