Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB, FAPA, FSPR (Ph.D., UIC, 1984) is professor of population and public health sciences, psychology, and social work at University of Southern California. He studies addictions etiology, prevention, and cessation, and translation research. He has over 600 publications. His EBPs include Projects Towards No Tobacco Use (young teen tobacco use prevention), Towards No Drug Abuse (older teen drug abuse prevention), and EX (older teen tobacco use cessation).

He is a Fellow of AAHB, APA Division 50, and SPR. He is the Editor of Evaluation & the Health Professions (SAGE Publications). His newest texts are: Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures (Cambridge, 2017), and Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions (Cambridge, 2020).

He maintains a strong interest in the addictions, broadly defined (substance and behaviors)—concepts, prevention, cessation, regulation. He has been teaching courses on the Foundations of Health Behavior Research (graduate course, since 1988) and Issues in the Addictions (upper-level undergraduate course; since 1999).