William DeJong, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Previously, he was a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Presently, Bill serves as Vice President for Research and Evaluation at Impairment Science, Inc. (ISI) which developed the Druid® app, the gold-standard tool for assessing cognitive and motor impairment. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Anheuser-Busch InBev Foundation.
Bill was the director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention (HEC) from 1995-2004. During this time, he was also the principal investigator of the Social Norms Marketing Research Project (SNMRP), a five-year, $4 million randomized trial funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Subsequently, Bill served as the executive director of research and analysis at Outside The Classroom, Inc. (OTC), in Needham, MA from 2007-2011. In this role, he oversaw the development and revision of AlcoholEdu for College, an online alcohol education course taken annually by approximately one-third of the nation’s first-year college students.
Bill is the author of over 450 monographs, book chapters, academic papers, and other publications and materials on the subjects of substance abuse prevention, health promotion, criminal justice, social psychology, and the use of media to change social norms and behaviors. Over the past 35 years, he has participated in over 250 conferences and workshops as a keynote speaker, invited speaker, or discussant. He received the first-ever College Leadership Award from the American Public Health Association’s Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Section in 2000, and the Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award from The Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues in 2008.
