Genevieve Ames, Ph.D., Medical Anthropology
Senior Research Scientist
Prevention Research Center
Berkeley, California

Phone: (510) 883-5726
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Email: ames@prev.org


Genevieve Ames received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. She is an Associate Director and Senior Scientist at PRC, Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health, and affiliated faculty in the Medical Anthropology Department, U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Ames has served as Principal Investigator for DOD/NIH/NIAAA-funded studies for almost 20 years, and is the PI/Program Director for two Post- and Pre-Doctoral NIH training programs co-sponsored by the School of Public Health and PRC.

Her major research foci include the influence of cultural, social, and physical environments on the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of alcohol and other drug-related problems, and the transference of science to public policy and prevention programming. Her research has identified environmental influences on drinking behavior and problems in the context of the workplace, the family, ethnic groupings, and among women. She has published her research findings on occupational drinking and problems among factory and foreign managed workers, municipal employees, young adults entering the workforce, women in traditionally male job categories, and U.S. military personnel.

Her family and gender publications focus on blue-collar, white and Latino populations, maternal alcoholism, alcoholic family system, and new indicators of women's drinking problems. She specializes in the integration of ethnographic, archival, and survey methods.