Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

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Christopher W. Kahler, PhD, Professor
Dr. Kahler is a Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at the Brown University School of Public Health. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. Dr. Kahler's work focuses on (a) addressing unhealthy alcohol use in the context of HIV prevention and care, (b) interventions to address co-occurring unhealthy alcohol use and smoking, (c) couples-focused alcohol counseling in sexual and minority couples, and (d) implementation of alcohol interventions in diverse medical settings. He is the Principal Investigator of Brown’s NIAAA-funded Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH). Within ARCH, he is PI of a pragmatic Hybrid Type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial evaluating videoconferencing and text messaging to provide alcohol counseling remotely to people with HIV at five HIV care centers around the country. He is the co-Director of the Substance Use Research Core of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research. He is currently multi-PI of an NCI-funded clinical trial examining cytisine and behavioral counseling for people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya and recently was MPI of an NIAAA-funded project that developed a couples-based alcohol intervention for sexual minority men with HIV. He has authored or co-authored over 340 peer-reviewed publications, is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and Vice President of the Research Society on Alcohol.

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