Robert Laforge, Sc.D. (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1987.) Dr Laforge is Professor of Behavioral Epidemiology in the Department of Psychology and has been the Director of the CPRC's Survey Research Center since 1991. His research interests generally focus on the use of multidisciplinary methods and techniques from public health, epidemiology and psychology in the investigation of health adversive and health affirming behaviors. Recent work has focused on how cognitive and behavioral factors may be modified to minimize harmful health behaviors, such as high-risk alcohol use, smoking, diet and sedentary lifestyles. Other interests include methods for the surveilliance and measurement of health behaviors in population survey samples, assessment of population support for health policies, and harm reduction strategies as applied to substance abuse. Dr. Laforge is currently Principal Investigator on two NIH funded randomized population trials testing tailored print feedback interventions to reduce high-risk alcohol use among college students, and among members of a managed care organization. Other ongoing research projects include a naturalistic study of the relationship of high-risk alcohol use and heath care utilization. In previous work, he lead the development of the CPRC's client-server based survey management system (SMS), which is used for mixed-mode data collection, database management, information processing and on-demand publishing. He also has been Principal investigator on a project that developed the Health Track System; a resident database management information system for continuing care retirement communities capable of resident tracking and monitoring health and functional status, services utilization, and program data.