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The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) is an American non-profit learned society dedicated to prevention science.

== History == The Society for Prevention Research was established in 1991 at a meeting of National Institute on Drug Abuse staff and prevention research center directors held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By the following spring, it was incorporated as a non-profit organization in New York. Steven P. Schinke served as the Society's first president from 1993 to 1995. In 2000, its official journal, Prevention Science, was established.

== Presidents == The president of the Society for Prevention Research is Guillermo "Willy" Prado. The following is a partial list of the Society's past presidents:

19931995: Steven P. Schinke 19951997: Richard Clayton 19971998: Karol Kumpfer 1998 (interim): Richard Clayton 19982001: Sheppard Kellam 20012003: Gilbert Botvin 20032005: J. David Hawkins 20052007: Anthony Biglan 20072009: Zili Sloboda 20092011: Linda Collins 20112013: Deborah Gorman-Smith 20132015: Felipe Gonzalez Castro

== References ==

== External links == Official website