(NCHIP) Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking

Cornell has joined with colleges and universities from around the country to address the problem of high-risk drinking. The NCHIP Learning Collaborative uses evaluation and measurement techniques to identify and implement strategies to tackle high-risk drinking and the associated harm.

Cornell's campus improvement team (see members, below) is spending 18 months working with researchers and scientists from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), bringing public health solutions and quality improvement methods to bear on the problem of high-risk drinking. They are using outcomes-based research (based on the Plan, Do, Study Act model— PDSA) to discover what programs work best, where they work, and why. 

Learn more about Cornell's perspective by watching a short video clip at the bottom of this page.

Cornell aims and strategies in action

• What do the data say about drinking at Cornell?
• Who experiences the most harm?
• What can be done to change the picture?

We are making progress! View the latest data report from Cornell's NCHIP team (pdf)

The three documents below have been used (in a poster format) to help share Cornell's story with other NCHIP collaborators.  

June 2011 poster

View Cornell's June 2011 poster (pdf, 1.11 MB)

January 2012 poster

View Cornell's January 2012 poster (pdf, 2.28 MB)

July, 2012 poster

View Cornell's July, 2012 poster (pdf, 999.66 KB)

Cornell's campus improvement team

Travis Apgar; Associate Dean of Students; Office of Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living

Sarah Balik; student; Executive Vice President, Student Assembly

Geoffrey Block; student; Board Member, Student Assembly

Alexandra Boehrer; student; Cornell University Emergency Medical Services Executive Director

Joe Burke; Associate Dean of Students; Director, Residential Programs

Janet Corson-Rikert; Assistant Vice President for Campus Health; Executive Director, Gannett Health Services

Greg Eells; Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Gannett Health Services

Marne Einarson; Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning

Colin Foley; student; President, InterFraternity Council

Mary Beth Grant; Judicial Administrator

Catherine Holmes; Associate Dean of Student Activities

Kent Hubble; Dean of Students; Professor of Architecture

Deborah Lewis; Alcohol Projects Coordinator, Gannett Health Services

Tim Marchell; Director of Mental Health Initiatives, Gannett Health Services

Susan Murphy; Vice President, Student and Academic Services

Brendan O'Brien; Director, International Students and Scholars

Kirsten Post Eynav; Health Educator, Gannett Health Services

Eric Silverberg; student; Cayuga's Watchers

Carlin Van Holmes; student; President, PanHellenic Association

Kathy Zoner; Chief, Cornell University Police

For more information

Contact Tim Marchell, PhD
Director of Mental Health Initiatives
Gannett Health Services

VIDEO:
Addressing the Problem of High-Risk Drinking: Cornell and NCHIP