Diana Fishbein, PhD

Diana Fishbein, PhD is a senior scientist and Director of Translational Neuro-Prevention Research in the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). She is also part-time research faculty at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Fishbein’s research supports the premise that underlying neurobiological mechanisms interact with the quality of our psychosocial experiences and environmental contexts to alter trajectories either toward or away from risk behaviors, and that compensatory mechanisms can be strengthened with targeted interventions. She serves in an advisory capacity for federal and state government bodies as well as several universities and organizations. Given the inherent translational nature of this research, she founded and directs the National Prevention Science Coalition for Improving Lives, a national organization dedicated to the transfer of knowledge from the basic sciences to practices in real world settings and public health policies. Through dissemination and advocacy, she actively informs the decision-making of federal and state level policymakers and agency administrators about the value and utility of prevention science to increase uptake of best practices.