Professor of Population Health, Hicks School of Social Work

Mary Marden Velasquez, Ph.D. is Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Professional and Corporate Leadership and Director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work.  Dr. Velasquez has over 20 years of support from the NIH and the CDC to develop behavioral interventions in the areas of screening and brief interventions, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, alcohol and other drug abuse, prenatal health, and smoking cessation. She is the author of books, journal articles and book chapters on using brief interventions to facilitate treatment adherence and promote behavior change for a variety of health problems.