Thomas F Babor

Professor, Public Health Sciences

Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Area(s) of Interest:  ​

Addiction Science including screening,  diagnosis, early intervention, treatment evaluation, as well as Alcohol and Drug Policy​

Thomas F Babor, PhD, MPH, is a Professor Emeritus and former Chairman in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA.  His academic training is in social psychology, addiction science and psychiatric epidemiology.  His research interests include screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation, as well as alcohol and drug policy, including commercial determinants of disease and disability. He has worked with the World Health Organization on the development of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the Alcohol, Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and the co-author of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2023) and Drug Policy and the Public Good (2018).  He is currently the Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Addiction Science, which provides advanced training to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in alcohol and drug research.​

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