Didra Brown-Taylor, Ph.D.

Pilot Investigator

Pilot Study
"The Utility of the CARET for Use with Older African-American At-risk Drinkers" (2005-2006)

Address
College of Science (COS) & Health Faculty
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
1731 East 120th Street
Augustus F. Hawkins Bldg, Rm 3090
Los Angeles, CA 90059

Phone
(323) 563-9392

Email
didrabrowntaylor@cdrewu.edu

Biography
Didra Brown-Taylor, PhD, has a BA and a BS in Black Studies and Biology respectively form the University of the Pacific.  She received graduate training in multicultural community-clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, she specializes in culturally appropriate research methodology for inclusion of African American and Latino participants, and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Urban Public Health Program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA. 

For more than 15 years, Dr. Brown-Taylor has been researching the relationships between alcohol availability, consumption, advertising and negative consequences associated with malt liquor beer drinking.  Her latest areas of research focus on Alcopops, Alcosnacks, energy drinks and under aged drinking and alcohol (pruno/hooch) production and consumption by prison inmates.

Dr. Brown-Taylor completed her post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program, she is a National Institutes of Health Health Disparities Research scholar, a UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (RCMAR/CHIME) scholar, and the recipient of the Los Angeles County Alcohol and Drug Program Administrators Association of California (CADPAAC) Public Policy Award for 2007.