Thomas Babor is a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He holds the University's Physicians Health Service endowed chair in Public Health and Community Medicine. Dr. Babor received his doctoral degree in social psychology from the University of Arizona in 1971. He spent several years in postdoctoral research training in social psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and subsequently served as head of social science research at McLean Hospital's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center in Belmont, Massachusetts. Since 1997 he has been chairman of the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief as well as Regional Editor of the international journal, Addiction. His research interests include screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation, as well as cultural and policy issues to alcohol and drug problems.

Raul Caetano
Professor of Epidemiology and Regional Dean
Dallas Regional Campus
University of Texas School of Public Health
Texas, USA
and
Professor and Dean
School of Health Professions
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Texas, USA

Sally Casswell
Director of the Centre for Social Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Massey University
New Zealand

Griffith Edwards
Emeritus Professor of Addiction Behaviour
King's College London
London, UK

Norman Giesbrecht
Senior Scientist
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Canada

Kathryn Graham
Senior Scientist and Section Head
Social and Community Prevention Research
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Canada

Joel Grube
Director and Senior Research Scientist
Prevention Research Center
PIRE, Berkeley, USA

Linda Hill
Senior Researcher
The SHORE Center
Massey University, New Zealand

Harold Holder
Senior Research Scientist
Prevention Research Center (PRC)
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Berkeley, USA

Ross Homel
Director
Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research
Queensland, Australia

Michael Livingston
Research Fellow
AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Victoria, Australia

Esa Österberg
Senior Researcher
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Helsinki, Finland

Rehm Jürgen
Senior Scientist and Co-Head
Section Public Health and Regulatory Policies
Center for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robin Room
Professor
School of Population Health
University of Melbourne
Australia

Ingeborg Rossow
Research Director
Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research
Norway