Leader, Epidemiology and Biometry Branch and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director NIAAA/NIH
NIAAA, Maryland
Aaron White is the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director and the Leader of the Epidemiology and Biometry Branch at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
He has a background in biological psychology and is interested in how alcohol affects health, from single cells to societies. He received a PhD from Miami University in Ohio, completed postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center, and then served as an Assistant Professor at Duke before being joining NIAAA in 2008.
Along the way, Aaron helped develop several prevention strategies, including AlcoholEdu, a widely used online science-focused program for high school and college students. He published two books on adolescent development, delivered several hundred presentations about alcohol to academic and lay audiences, and published more than 70 scientific articles and book chapters related to alcohol. He has been studying alcohol and health for 30 years.
