The SIMAH project investigates the link between alcohol use and life expectancy, with a focus on socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity as modifying factors.
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 CAMH website.
Contacts
Charlotte Probst – Principal Investigator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada
Robin Purshouse – Co-Investigator, University of Sheffield
Charlotte Buckley – Researcher, University of Sheffield
View all members of the research team on the CAMH website.
Publications
As publications are released they will be added to the publications database on the CAMH website.