TEAM

Mark B. Reed, Ph.D., FAAHB

Administrative Core Director and Co-PI

Mark B. Reed, PhD is currently the Associate Vice President for Research Operations in the Division of Research and Innovation at San Diego State University. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Reed served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health and Human Services. Dr. Reed’s research focuses on alcohol use etiology and prevention, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approaches to alcohol misuse, as well as issues pertaining to faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion. He is currently a PI (MPI) of the SDSU FUERTE program, which was funded through the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program. The goal of the FIRST program is to increase and sustain inclusive excellence in biomedical research. Dr. Reed is also a founding faculty member in the SDSU/UCSD Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use doctoral program in the School of Social Work and is a Professor of Public Health. He is well published in top substance use/public health journals and has secured more than $11M in funding as a PI or MPI and more than $2M as a Co-Investigator. Dr. Reed’s research has been supported by National Institutes of Health, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute, and The Ohio State University. He is a past-President of the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) as well as the past Co-Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research. Dr. Reed is also the recipient of the 2020 SDSU Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to the University and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior.