Dr. Stan Weed

Research and Evaluation Consultant
Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs

Dr. Weed completed his Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of Washington in the field of Social Psychology and is the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Research and Evaluation. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in his field. His primary professional and research interests have been the social problems and preventive programs related to adolescents: teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and delinquency. His research has been published in scholarly professional journals and presented at meetings of the American Psychological Association, Academy of Management Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, American Evaluation Association, National Conference on Family Relations, and World Conference of Sociologists. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and to the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs in the Department of Health and Human Services. His work assessing the impact of current social policy on teen pregnancy has been cited on NBC TV and in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and scores of newspapers around the country. Dr. Weed has also been invited to present his work in Washington D.C. at The White House, the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the U.S. House Committee on Health and Transportation, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to legislative bodies in several states, and at Moscow University in Russia. He has served as a national consultant for federal Title XX and CBAE projects, and he was a charter member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. He founded IRE in 1988 and currently serves as Director and CEO.