Isaac Rhew, PhD, MPH
rhew@uw.edu | CV
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Education:
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2009
MPH, Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2006
AB, Psychology, Stanford University, 1995
Dr. Rhew is a psychiatric epidemiologist broadly interested in the etiology and prevention of substance misuse and other common mental health problems particularly with regards to the role of ecological-level social and physical contextual factors. Further, he is interested in novel epidemiologic and statistical methods and the appropriate application of these approaches.
Current and Past Grants
Real-time influences of geospatial context and negative affect on young adult marijuana use: A pilot study of a geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment study
Neighborhood and genetic influences on alcohol misuse in a sample of twins
Selected Publications
- Rhew, I. C., Kosterman, R., Duncan, G. E., & Mair, C. (2018). Examination of cross-sectional associations of neighborhood deprivation and alcohol outlet density with hazardous drinking using a twin design. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79, 68-73. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2018.79.68
- Rhew, I. C., Oesterle, S., Coffman, D., & Hawkins, J. D. (2018). Effects of exposure to the Communities That Care prevention system on youth problem behaviors in a community-randomized trial: Employing an inverse probability weighting approach. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 41, 270-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163278718759397
- Patrick, M. E., Rhew, I. C., Lewis, M. A., Abdallah, D, Larimer, M. E., Schulenberg, J. E., & Lee, C. M. (2018). Alcohol motivations and behaviors during months young adults experience social role transitions: Micro-transitions in early adulthood. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 895-903. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000411
- Rhew, I. C., Fleming, C. B., Vander Stoep, A., Nicodemus, S., Zheng, C., & McCauley, E. (2017). Examination of cumulative effects of early adolescent depression on late adolescent cannabis and alcohol use disorder. Addiction, 112, 1952-1960. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13907
- Rhew, I. C., Kosterman, R., & Lee, J. O. (2017). Neighborhood typologies associated with alcohol use among adults in their 30s: A finite mixture modeling approach. Journal of Urban Health, 94, 542-548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-017-0161-2
- Rhew, I. C., Stappenbeck, C. A., Bedard-Gilligan, M., Hughes, T. L., & Kaysen D. (2017). Effects of sexual assault victimization on alcohol use and consequences among young adult sexual minority women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85, 424-433. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000202
- Guttmannova, K., Lee, C. M., Kilmer, J., Fleming, C., Rhew, I. C., Kosterman, R., & Larimer, M. (2016). Impacts of changing marijuana policy on alcohol and other drug use in the United States. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 40, 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.12942
- Rhew, I. C., Hawkins, J. D., Murray, D. M., Fagan, A. A., Oesterle, S., Abbott, R. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2016). Evaluation of community-level effects of Communities That Care on adolescent drug use and delinquency using a repeated cross-sectional design. Prevention Science, 17, 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0613-4
- Zheng, C., Atkins, D. C., Zhou, X. A., & Rhew, I. C. (2015). Causal models for mediation analysis: An introduction to structural mean models. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 50, 614-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2015.1070707
- Rhew, I. C., Hawkins, J. D., & Oesterle, S. (2011). Drug use and risk among youth in different rural contexts. Health and Place, 17, 775-783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.02.003