ABOUT US

Scientific Advisors

Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy

Harvard Medical School

Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. In 2008 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Kessler’s research interests are wide. He is the principal investigator of the National Comorbidity Survey, the first nationally representative survey of the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorders in the United States. The NCS was carried out in 1991and 1992.

Dr. Kessler is also the principal investigator of several NCS extensions, including a 10-year follow-up of the baseline NCS sample and a replication of the NCS in 2001 and 2002 to study changes in mental health and treatment of mental disorders in the United States over the decade of the 1990s. He is currently carrying out the NCS adolescent (NCS-A) survey, the first nationally representative survey of adolescent mental health ever done in the United States. Over 10,000 adolescents and their parents and teachers are participating in the NCS-A.