J. Mark Eddy

J. Mark Eddy, Ph.D., is the Margie Gurley Seay Centennial Professor in Education at The University of Texas at Austin and a clinical psychologist and prevention scientist. He is the program area chair for School and Clinical Child Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology and a member of the Health Behavior and Health Education program area in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. His work focuses on the development and testing of research-informed interventions designed to improve psychosocial outcomes within vulnerable populations. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as the Director of Community-based Research with the Family Translational Research Group in the College of Dentistry at New York University, as the Director of Research with Partners for Our Children in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, and as a senior scientist at the nonprofit Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene. He has successfully navigated the conduct of multiple randomized controlled trials within a variety of systems, including child welfare, adult corrections, juvenile justice, the military, and schools.

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Eddy has worked on research projects internationally in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico and Sweden. He has more than 160 publications and has been a leader on the development teams for 14 curricula and subsequent revisions for parents and teachers, including Parenting Inside Out, Nuestras Familias, Strive, and Miles de Manos. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals in psychology and public health and served as an associate editor of the journal Prevention Science. He has been a member on commissions at the state and local level, including the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, and on national level Boards and professional taskforces, including the Board of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research, the Society for Prevention Research's Standards of Knowledge Taskforce and the Society for Prevention Research Standards of Ethics Taskforce. He co-founded the Early Career Preventionists Network.

Dr. Eddy was inducted as a fellow in the Society for Prevention Research in 2025. He has had continuous extramural research funding during his career, totaling 64 grants and contracts. For the past 18 years, he has been a principal investigator on the multisite randomized controlled trial of the Friends of the Children professional youth mentoring program, a study supported through braided funding from a wide variety of public agencies and private foundations. He is a member of the Research Board of the National Mentoring Resource Center.

Dr. Eddy earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Texas A&M University, master's and doctoral degrees in clinical and community psychology from the University of Oregon, completed a clinical psychology internship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and was a post-doctoral trainee in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clinic at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a licensed psychologist.