Mark B. Reed
Pronouns: He/Him
Professor
Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
SDSU
Bio
Dr. Reed is a Professor of Public Health with an extensive background in academic leadership, previously serving at SDSU as Senior Associate Vice President of Research Operations in the Division of Research and Innovation and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health and Human Services. His research focuses on alcohol use etiology and prevention, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approaches, and faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Currently, Dr. Reed serves as an MPI for the SDSU FUERTE program—funded through the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program to foster inclusive excellence in biomedical research. He is also a founding faculty member of the joint SDSU/UCSD Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use doctoral program.
Widely published in top public health and substance use journals, Dr. Reed has secured research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, the 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), former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, and recipient of the 2020 SDSU Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions.