Email: mcbride@andrews.edu

Tel: 1.269.471.3152

Biography

Duane C. McBride is a Senior Research Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Andrews University and Director of the University's Institute for Prevention of Addictions. His Master’s Degree is in Industrial Organization from the University of Maryland and PhD in Sociology of Deviant Behavior from the University of Kentucky. He has published over 125 articles, chapters, and monographs in health service research, the sociology of religion as well as the etiology and health consequences of substance use. He was involved in early research on the risk factors associated with HIV infection among injecting drug users that was published in the American Journal of Public Health. He has also published in the Adventist Review, Dialogue, and the Journal of Adventist Education. He is in the top 10 percent of all cited scholars in Research Gate. He has chaired and served on hospital and public health boards for the last 40 years. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institute of Justice as well as by a variety of state agencies, foundations and other private organizations including the Seventh- day Adventist Church. He is also the President Emeritus of the Adventist Human- Subject Researchers Association.