SIMAH: Simulation of Alcohol Control Policies for Health Equity
The SIMAH project investigates the link between alcohol use and life expectancy, with a focus on socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity as modifying factors.
Introduction
SIMAH is a major alcohol policy modelling project funded by the USA's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The project is an international collaboration between researchers at three world-leading centres in alcohol research and policy modelling:
- the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield
- the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto, Canada)
- the Alcohol Research Group at the Public Health Institute (Emeryville, USA)
Life expectancy in the United States has been stagnating and declining since about 2010. This trend is a result of increased mortality from specific causes of death (including alcohol-attributable mortality), especially among specific demographic subgroups. However, there have been no comprehensive evaluations of alcohol use as an underlying factor for mortality increases in specific socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups in the US. SIMAH aims to fill this knowledge gap.
To find out more about the SIMAH project visit the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) website.
Publications
As publications are released they will be added to the publications database on the CAMH website.
Key project information
This project is funded by the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Dates
August 2020 – July 2025
Funding
2020: $301,878
2021: $503,370
2022: $461,706
2023: $468,922 + $106,854
Principal investigators
Charlotte Probst – Principal Investigator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada
Robin Purshouse – Co-Investigator, University of Sheffield
Institutions involved
University of Sheffield
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada)
Public Health Institute (USA)
Key contact
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