David P. MacKinnon, Ph.D., is a Regents and Foundation Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. He graduated from Harvard University in 1979 and earned a Ph.D. in measurement and psychometrics from UCLA in 1986.   He was an Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Prevention Research from 1986 to 1990. He has been at Arizona State University since 1990 and is affiliated with the Prevention Intervention Research Center and the Research in Prevention Laboratory. Dr. MacKinnon teaches graduate analysis of variance, mediation analysis, and statistical methods in prevention research courses. He has given numerous workshops and invited presentations in the United States and Europe. He received the 2007 Arizona State University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and the 2021 American Psychological Association Division 5 Jacob Cohen Teaching and Mentorship award.  In 2011, he received the Nan Tobler Award from the Society for Prevention Research for his book on statistical mediation analysis. He received the Prevention Science Award in 2018 and the Presidential Award for lifetime achievement in prevention science from the Society for Prevention Research. He has served on federal review committees including a full term on the Epidemiology and Prevention Research review committee and was a consulting editor for the journal, Prevention Science.  Dr. MacKinnon has been principal investigator on many federally funded grants and has had a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to develop and evaluate methods to assess mediation since 1990. He received the MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award for this mediation analysis research.  He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association Division of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, and inaugural Fellow of the Society for Prevention Research. . He is a Thomson-Reuters and Clarivate highly cited researcher. He is past president of American Psychological Association Division on Quantitative and Qualitative methods (Division 5) and past president of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Dr. MacKinnon has wide-ranging interests in statistics and methodology, but his primary interest is in statistical methods to assess how prevention and treatment programs achieve their effects. 

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