Faculty

Isaac C. Rhew

Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Research Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

206-221-1897

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2009
MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2006
AB Psychology, Stanford University, 1995

Contact

206-221-1897

Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors
Box 354944
1100 NE 45th St., #300
Seattle, WA 98105

Bio

Dr. Rhew is a psychiatric epidemiologist with research interests in the etiology of and preventive interventions for substance use and mental health problems particularly regarding influences of area-level social and physical context on these outcomes. In addition, he is interested in epidemiologic and applied statistical methods especially for longitudinal and multi-level studies.

Research Areas

Research Interests

  • Etiology and prevention of mental health and substance use problems
  • Social determinants of health
  • Area-level contextual factors and health
  • Epidemiologic methods
  • Applied statistical methods
  • Co-occurrence of substance use and internalizing problems

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Nonmonotonic associations between cannabis use frequency and alcohol use in a statewide sample of young adults from Washington State.
(2026 Mar 27)
Am J Prev Med
Fleming CB, Calhoun BH, Rhew IC, Kilmer JR, Larimer ME, Guttmannova K
Assessment of Measurement Equivalence of the Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale by Immigrant Generation Status in Latinx Youth.
(2026 Mar)
J Community Psychol 54(2): e70098
Delawalla MLM, Rhew IC, Martinez G, Skinner M, Oesterle S, Guttmannova K
Using machine learning to identify unique predictors of alcohol and cannabis impaired driving.
(2026 Mar)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) 50(3): e70245
Calhoun BH, Hultgren BA, McCabe CJ, Rhew IC, Larimer ME, Kilmer JR, Guttmannova K
Cannabis Use Problems Moderate Daily Associations between Cannabis Consequences and Subsequent Use.
(2026 Mar 10)
J Stud Alcohol Drugs
Dyar C, Rhew IC, Lee CM
Weather-Related Trends in Drug Use Incidents Aboard Transit Vehicles.
(2026 Feb 24)
J Urban Health
Srikanth P, Rhew IC, Seto E, Zuidema C, Baker MG
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