Angus Campbell Collegiate Research Professor and University Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and principal investigator of the Monitoring the Future study since its inception in 1975. 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 various illicit drugs; institutional trust; policy evaluation; the functioning of American high schools; behaviors influencing the spread of HIV; and most recently, 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 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA).

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Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and a principal investigator on the Monitoring the Future study since its inception in 1975. In 1965 he initiated the Youth in Transition project and has authored five books and numerous articles based on that research. His scientific publications focus on youth and social issues, and his current research interests include drug use and attitudes about drugs; other values, attitudes, and behaviors of youth; military plans and experiences; and public opinion as related to a number of other social issues.

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Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and co-principal investigator on the Monitoring the Future study. 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.

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Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Center for Human Growth and Development, Professor of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Associate Director of the Survey Research Center, and President-Elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence. He received his Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University in 1987. He is co-principal investigator on the Monitoring the Future study, and has been associated with this study since 1991. He has published widely on several topics concerning adolescent development and the transition to young adulthood. His recent research focuses on the etiology and epidemiology of substance use and psychopathology, on the link between developmental transitions and health and well-being, and on the conceptualization and analysis of developmental change.

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Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. 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.

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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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Professor at The Pennsylvania State University's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Research Associate at the Institute of Education (London) Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She earned her BA in psychology at the University of Ottawa in 1986 and her MA and Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology at the University of Victoria in 1993. Her published research applies a developmental perspective to understanding the etiology and prevention of alcohol and other substance use across adolescence, early adulthood, and midlife. Her current research interests include long-term consequences of heavy substance use in adolescence for achievement and health in adulthood; developmental changes in positive and negative substance use motivations and short-term consequences; links between alcohol use and sexual behaviors at the daily level across the college years; and modeling developmental and situational variability across different time frames.

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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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