M. J. Paschall, Ph.D., Public Health
Senior Research Scientist
Prevention Research Center
Berkeley, California

Phone: (510) 883-5753
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Email: paschall@prev.org


Mallie J. Paschall came to PIRE in 2000 after working as a Health Research Analyst at RTI International for six years. Dr. Paschall received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Dr. Paschall has over 10 years of experience conducting research on the epidemiology, etiology, and prevention of substance use and violence among adolescents and young adults. He is involved in several NIAAA-sponsored studies on the etiology and prevention of heavy alcohol use among young adults, college students and adolescents. He is directing a study with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to improve understanding of why college attendance is associated with heavy drinking in young adulthood. Over the next several years Dr. Paschall will be a co-investigator for an NIAAA-sponsored study based in Oregon to evaluate community interventions designed to reduce adolescents’ access to and consumption of alcohol (Dr. Joel Grube is the Principal Investigator). He will also work with Dr. Robert Saltz (PI) on an NIAAA-sponsored study involving 14 California universities to evaluate environmental prevention strategies aimed at reducing high-risk drinking among college students. Dr. Paschall recently evaluated an internet-based college alcohol education course developed by Tanglewood Research, Inc. Dr. Paschall was also recently involved in two NIDA-sponsored studies on adolescent substance abuse etiology and prevention. He analyzed data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse to identify risk factors for adolescent binge drinking, and he conducted a study with colleagues at RTI International to identify neurocognitive factors that may affect adolescents’ responsiveness to drug abuse prevention programs. Dr. Paschall helped to develop and test novel “desktop” interactive virtual reality exercises to gauge adolescents’ social competency skills (emotional control, interpersonal communication) in provocative social situations.