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Principal Investigators
Richard A. Miech, Ph.D.
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Principal Investigator of the MTF MAIN project, which includes school sampling and recruiting, in-school surveys, and analyses of both the in-school and panel data
(he is also co-investigator on the MTF Panel grant). He is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D.
degree in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on trends in substance use,
with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by age, historical period, and birth cohort membership. Other research interests include the rapid growth
of vaping in recent years and its long term consequences, as well as the effects of recreational marijuana laws on adolescent substance use.
Curriculum Vitae
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John E. Schulenberg, Ph.D.
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Principal Investigator of the NIDA-funded MTF PANEL grant, which covers selection and tracking of, and data collections from new and ongoing MTF
panel respondents from 12th grade through age 60 (he is also co-investigator on the MTF Main grant). He is a Research Professor at the Institute
for Social Research, and Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies
from Penn State University. He has published widely on several topics concerning adolescence and the transition to adulthood, bringing a
developmental perspective to the etiology and epidemiology of substance use and abuse, focusing on individual and contextual risk factors,
course, co-morbidity, consequences, and historical variation across adolescence and adulthood. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and
Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
Curriculum Vitae
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Lloyd D. Johnston, Ph.D.
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Angus Campbell Collegiate Research Professor and University Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan and principal investigator of the Monitoring the Future
study for its first 42 years --from its inception in 1975 through 2017 (he is now co-investigator on both MTF grants). He holds degrees from Williams, Harvard, and the University of Michigan.
A social psychologist by training, he has served as advisor to the White House, Congress, and many other national and international bodies and has conducted research on a wide range of issues,
including the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs; policy evaluation; the functioning of American high schools; behaviors influencing the spread of HIV; and childhood obesity. His research
interests also include international comparative studies and the application of survey research to social problems generally. He is the recipient of the UM Regents Award for Distinguished Public
Service and the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA).
Curriculum Vitae
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Jerald G. Bachman, Ph.D.
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Research Professor and University Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and a
co-investigator on the Monitoring the Future study (both grants) since its inception. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1962. In 1965 he initiated the Youth in Transition project, which he directed for a decade. That research led him to conceive and propose
the Monitoring the Future project, which he and Lloyd Johnston designed in the early 1970s, and launched with funding in 1974. He has authored three books a
nd many articles and chapters based on Monitoring the Future Research. His scientific publications focus primarily on youth and social issues, including drug use
and attitudes about drugs, as well as other values, attitudes, and behaviors of youth. Other past research and publications dealt with the all-volunteer force and
views about the military, as well as Michigan citizens' and physicians' views about physician-assisted death.
Curriculum Vitae
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Patrick M. O'Malley, Ph.D.
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Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and co-investigator on the Monitoring the Future study (both grants). He received his Ph.D. degree in
Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1975 and has been
associated with the Monitoring the Future project since then. His publications deal with alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and related attitudes and beliefs.
His research interests include causes and consequences of drug use, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, social epidemiology of drug use, and longitudinal survey
data analysis techniques.
Curriculum Vitae
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Megan E. Patrick, Ph.D.
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Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and co-investigator on the Monitoring the Future study (both grants). She earned her Ph.D. in Human Development
and Family Studies from Penn State University in 2008. Her published research focuses on the development and consequences of adolescent and young adult risk behaviors, including alcohol use,
drug use, and risky sexual behaviors. Her interests include event-specific risk behaviors, motivation and decision-making, the prevention of health risk behaviors, statistical methods for
modeling behavior and behavior change, and web-based survey methodology. Her current projects focus on high-intensity drinking, dynamic associations between substance use and consequences,
and predictors and consequences of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use.
Curriculum Vitae
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Affiliated Investigators
Mick Couper, Ph.D.
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Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Dr. Couper is an international expert on the use of technology in survey data collection, particularly regarding web-based data collections. His research over the past
25 years has been devoted to understanding and improving survey data collection to maximize data quality and minimize inferential risks. He has directed several large
data collection efforts, including the National Survey of Family Growth, and he serves as Co-Investigator on several ongoing national studies located in the University
of Michigan's Survey Research Center. His current research focuses on the use of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) for survey data collection. As a collaborating investigator,
Dr. Couper brings his expertise in web-based (including mobile device) data collection to the MTF Panel Study, collaborating on the design, implementation, and analysis of the sequential mixed-mode
web-based survey data collection.
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Steven Heeringa, Ph.D.
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Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan. Dr. Heeringa has over
40 years of statistical sampling experience in the development of the Survey Research Center's National Sample design, as well as research designs for ISR's major longitudinal and cross-sectional
survey programs. He is a widely recognized expert in survey sampling and other methodological efforts, is the author of many publications on statistical design and sampling methods for research
in the fields of public health and the social sciences, and has been an active participant in MTF design work for many years.
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Katherine M. Keyes, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Katherine focuses her research on life course epidemiology with particular attention to substance use and psychiatric disorders. Her empirical research has documented a narrowing gender gap in the prevalence and course of alcohol abuse and dependence over time, as
well as the effects of changing social norms on birth cohort effects in marijuana and alcohol use in adolescence. Dr. Keyes is an expert on methodological issues in age-period-cohort effect estimation and has conducted age-period-cohort analysis on a range of health outcomes,
including autism, obesity, breast cancer, and substance disorders. Her work has highlighted and extended several existing age-period-cohort methods, most notably including the median polish method. Dr. Keyes also has explored the effects of early life exposures on adolescent and
adult health, documenting long-term consequences of child maltreatment on internalizing and externalizing psychiatric disorders in adulthood and the sensitizing effects of childhood maltreatment on exposures to stress in adulthood.
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Jacqui Smith, Ph.D.
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Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Macquarie University in Australia.
Dr. Smith is an international expert on life course/lifespan developmental psychology emphasizing gerontology; her expertise spans many aspects of functioning in midlife and
old age including health, well-being, and cognition. As a collaborating investigator, she brings her expertise on survey measurement of health, well-being, and cognition in
middle-aged and older adults to the group, consulting with MTF on development of the new age 60 MTF Panel survey and improvements to the current middle adult surveys.
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John M. Wallace, Jr., Ph.D.
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Philip Hallen Chair in Community Health and Social Justice at the University of Pittsburgh's School
of Social Work, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's School of Social Work,
and a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research. He earned his BA from the University
of
Chicago in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1991. From 1992 to 1994 he was
a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. His research has appeared in a number of professional
journals, books and monographs. His current research focuses on racial/ethnic and gender disparities
in drug use;
the role of religion as a protective factor against adolescent problem behaviors; and
community-based participatory research methods.
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Monitoring the Future Advisory Board
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We are fortunate to have readily available external advice and consultation from several world-class scholars who represent a range of disciplines and perspectives that have agreed to participate on our MTF National Advisory Committee,
advising both NIDA-funded Monitoring the Future grants.
Linda Collins, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Cook, Ph.D., Northwestern University
C. Anderson Johnson, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Herbert Kleber, M.D., Columbia University
Jennifer Maggs, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Duane McBride, Ph.D., Andrews University
Rosalie Pacula, Ph.D., RAND Corporation
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