Mark W. Lipsey, Ph.D.

Mark W. Lipsey is Professor of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College and Co-director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 following a B.S. in Applied Psychology from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 1968. His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis). The foci of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of the National Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach.